Associate Operations Officer - Mumbai, India - World Bank Group

World Bank Group

Verified Company

Mumbai, India

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

beBee Recuiter

Description

Job #:

- req20892
Organization:

IFC
Sector:
Advisory Services
Grade:
GF
Term Duration:
3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
Mumbai,India
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:

2/8/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description

IFC's Financial Institutions Group (FIG) works through financial institutions to provide much-needed access to finance for millions of individuals and micro, small, and medium enterprises that we would never be able to reach directly.

This is an important part of the World Bank Group strategy to end extreme poverty and build shared prosperity.

FIG Asia Pacific provides the strategic investment and advice needed by financial institutions to build a strong, engaged private sector and tackle the region's most pressing development challenges.

We account for about 32 percent of FIG's Global investment portfolio, and our projects support micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), Trade and Supply Chain-smart projects, housing, insurance, supply chains, and digital finance.

We demonstrate the business case for greater financial inclusion, particularly for women and other under-served segments of the community. Our tailored advice helps clients build capacity, strengthen risk management, and diversify and scale their product offerings.

Stretching from the Pacific to South Asia, our projects are delivering on the IFC 3.0 agenda and enabling the region to fulfill its potential.

FIG Advisory in Asia Pacific leverages on IFC's global presence, to drive thought leadership and deliver expert advice to our clients towards achieving greater access to finance in our priority markets in the region.

Thematic areas of specialization include SME Banking, Microfinance, Agrifinance, Supply Chain Finance, Risk Management, Digital Financial Services, Trade and Supply Chain Finance, Gender Finance and Housing.

The jobholder will be responsible for generating and implementing advisory engagements in India, under the guidance of Country and Thematic leads, with the key focus on gender.

The jobholder will report directly to the FIG Advisory Services Country Anchor in India. The jobholder will have a co-supervisory reporting line to the relevant Practice Lead in Asia for SME.

He/she will work with the Practice Lead to drive the practice and support delivery of engagements in Asia as per FIG Asia's expert-based model.

He/she will be an integral member of the country team and will work closely with key stakeholders in supporting the delivery of the WBG/IFC country strategy.

Role and Responsibilities:

Then main responsibility of the jobholder is to provide input to the design and support delivery of client advisory services solutions that operationalize country and thematic mandates and contribute to knowledge sharing and capacity building.

IFC's financial institutions advisory services aims to deliver innovative solutions that support clients in sustainably growing their presence in underserved markets and that are aligned with IFC's country strategies and development objectives.

Founded on comprehensive diagnostics, IFC designs and implements capacity building to strengthen clients' strategy, business model, products and services, risk management framework, market outreach and impact in the thematic areas aligned to regional and countries' development challenges.

The jobholder will also participate in the implementation and/or project management of client solutions, including: managing external consultants and other providers, the project budget and overseeing project execution.

Moreover, the job-holder would also actively contribute and participate in the SME Practice in the Asia and Pacific region and also regionally contribute to SME linked engagements.

Client and Stakeholder Management:

Communicate with middlesenior management of the bank and support the articulation of institutionlevel as well as segmentlevel solutions especially in SME advisory area.
Support the delivery of knowledge transfer sessions, diagnostics with the client, and also be a technical resource for advisory project executions in India as well in the Asia region.
Scope technical and commercial market potential for sustainable SME finance in India as well in the Asia region and identify opportunities relevant to FI clients, such as identifying gaps and needs for developing sustainable SME finance programs, and formulation of motivation/drivers for endusers to implement SME projects using FI's financing.
Lead project management and oversight of projects in India, under the guidance of Country Anchors and/or Practice Leads, to reinforce quality and consistency of approach.
Work collaboratively with team members in the designated countries (mainly India) to support Country Anchor and/or Practice Lead in helping close pipeline projects and providing solutions to key portfolio cl