E T Consultant

Job #: req38392 Organization: World Bank Group Sector: Financial Management Grade: EC2 Term Duration: 0 years 6 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Ankara,Turkiye Required Language(s): English, Turkish Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date: 10/7/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd

Regional Context

The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region comprises about 30 extremely diverse countries, with a population of nearly 500 million people. Some of our clients are IDA only and others are IDA-blend countries and IBRD- eligible. Knowledge is critical to the Bank’s value proposition to client countries in the ECA region in both lending and advisory services. A middle-income region, ECA‘s slow growth and persistently high unemployment have threatened to reverse the region’s achievements in reducing poverty and increasing shared prosperity. The region continues to struggle with multiple structural weaknesses, including high public debt burdens, tight fiscal space, low investment, and financial sector vulnerabilities. Other challenges include vulnerability to climate change, poor governance, diverse fragility risks related to regional tensions, frozen conflicts, and domestic instability in some geopolitically important countries. The GGP’s work in ECA is organized under two units – GOV ECA East (EECG1) and GOV ECA West (EECG2). These units work in an integrated fashion.

Country Context

Türkiye, one of the largest countries in ECA, is the 19th largest economy in the world, and one of the top countries in terms of IBRD exposure. Türkiye, an upper-middle-income country with a strong record of growth, has faced external and domestic shocks in recent years. The country has enjoyed high growth rates from the early 2000s to mid-2010s, which propelled the country to the higher reaches of upper-middle-income status with a large decline in poverty and remarkable improvements in health and education outcomes. However, a series of economic and geopolitical shocks have led to heightened macro-economic volatility and threatened some of the economic and social gains. To learn more about Türkiye please visit: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/turkey

Duties and Accountability

This is a locally recruited field-based position in the World Bank office in Ankara, Türkiye. The FMS will enhance ECA's fiduciary financial management capacity to respond to the growing demands in the country. As part of the ECAFM team, FMS will report to the GGP Regional Practice Manager for EECG2. Duties include:

• Working closely with the ECA Senior FMSs in Türkiye in ensuring that policies and procedures with respect to financial management are applied in all phases of the World Bank-financed projects, including various types of lending and trust fund operations.

• Conduct financial management assessments on new projects in accordance with the World Bank guidelines, including assessing financial management capacities of various project implementing units (PIUs), assessing risks and risk mitigation strategies, attending project negotiation, participating in the project preparation and appraisal missions, etc.

• Conduct financial management supervision of active projects in accordance with the agreed country financial management plan.

• Monitor and review interim financial reports (IFR) for the projects.

• Co-ordinating annual audits for the projects, and review of audit reports and management letters.

• Guiding the PIUs on FM arrangements and develop and review the financial management action plans of the projects, which have FM issues.

• Participating in the World Bank missions and preparing various types of fiduciary related reports and documents as required.

• Provide strategic and operationally relevant advice to country authorities for strengthening financial management in the World Bank projects.

• Participate in the Country Portfolio Performance Reviews.

• Provide technical inputs on public financial management issues in analytical and lending operations in the country.

• Delivering any other tasks, as required by the GGP Regional Practice Manager.

Selection Criteria

• A highly motivated and passionate financial management specialist with strong client orientation and interpersonal skills.

• Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., accounting, finance, or public policy) with at least 5 years of relevant experience in financial management, accounting or auditing in a public or private sector-setting.

• Willing to work towards obtaining a professional accountancy membership in an International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) member body as that may be required for future accreditation, including eligibility for certain Financial Management roles and access to relevant Bank FM systems.

• Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of the country’s public financial management systems, including budget, treasury and cash management, internal controls, internal audit and risk management, accounting, reporting, and accountability and oversight institutions.

• Demonstrated ability to work with the information systems and IT applications related to financial management.

• Knowledge of international accounting and auditing standards.

• Demonstrated capacity to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team.

• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally in English and Turkish.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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