Budget and Business Analytics Consultant
Post of duty: Remote from one of our 48-member countries where the IDB has a Country Office.
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
The Budget and Administrative Division of the Budget and Administrative Services Department (BDA) is responsible for managing IDB’s corporate real estate portfolio, providing workplace services, including travel, security, and general services, and managing physical and digital records. The Portfolio Monitoring & Analytics (PMA) Group is tasked with leading the monitoring and reporting of facilities capital projects portfolio; planning and monitoring the administrative budget for the provision of all workplace services and the real estate capital budget portfolio; maintaining and enhancing its project management system; and leading and coordinating departmental initiatives under the Bank’s Digital Transformation Program.
The PMA is looking for a highly motivated individual with analytical and budget management skills who will contribute to a dynamic team working on capital and administrative budget management, business analytics, project & portfolio monitoring, and digital transformation.
What you’ll do:
- Support the formulation, execution, and analytics of ACP administrative and capital budgets.
- Monitor the work of providers to ensure effective execution of services, budget, and compliance with the work program and associated performance indicators.
- Continuously seek to identify relevant comparators and benchmarks to identify cost and operational efficiencies across all corporate services.
- Contribute to the business and data analytics initiatives of the PMA Group that support decision-making by designing performance metrics, dashboards, and result-based indicators; enhancing and measuring project execution and services delivery; and continuously adopting the latest technologies and tools.
- Responsible for shopping cart requisitions, budget transfers, and reclassifications process as required. Monitor and control the accuracy of budget information in SAP and Hyperion.
What you'll need
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Analytics, Finance, Accounting, or a relevant field. Training and certification in agile methodologies and/or Project Management certification are a plus.
- Experience: You have at least two years of relevant experience in budgeting, accounting, project management or project finance, corporate management, and reporting. You are a proficient user of Microsoft Office tools, data and business analytics tools such as Tableau or Power BI, and enterprise systems such as SAP. Knowledge of diagramming software such as Visio and service management systems such as ServiceNow is a plus.
- Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.
Key skills:
- Learn continuously.
- Collaborate and share knowledge.
- Focus on clients.
- Communicate and influence.
- Innovate and try new things.
- Strong analytical aptitude and ability to structure business problems.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
- Ability to analyze data and translate key results to business stakeholders.
- Collaboration, knowledge sharing, analytical thinking, attention to detail, and innovation.
Requirements:
- Citizenship [1]: You must be a citizen of one of our 48-member countries, and a citizen or permanent resident of a country where the IDB has a Country Office.
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
- Remote Modality: The selected candidate will not provide services from the Bank’s office and will not be provided a physical space on the premises of the Bank’s Country Office. The candidate selected will be responsible for setting up the space, and for having the equipment, internet, and phone accesses to accomplish these TORs, outside the Bank’s office. Access to the Bank’s systems will be arranged in coordination with the Bank.
Type of contract and duration:
- Type of contract: National Consultant (National Remote Modality).
- Length of contract: 36 months.
- Work Location: Remote.
What we offer
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee’s life. These benefits include:
A competitive compensation package.
- Leave and vacations: Two days per month of contract + gender-neutral parental leave.
- Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.
- Savings plan: The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
- Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
- Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
Our culture
At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.
About the IDB Group
The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
About IDB
We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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