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Rome, Latium, Italy

Rome, Latium, Italy

• Finance Officer Financial Reporting
• Reviewing, approving, reconciling and processing a range of transactions on a regular and recurring basis; in particular loan and grant disbursements, loan and grant administration entries (approvals, status changes etc)
• Analysing and evaluating financial reports produced on a regular basis, explaining variances and producing reports and correspondence as required
• Ensuring the timely and correct entry into the General Ledger and Flexcube of all input in accordance with corporate accounting practices, approving related inputs
• Perform debt servicing activities from monitoring to application of loan repayments
• Supporting the loan and grant administration and other financial controls tasks (including banking information, fraud checks and reviews for sanctions screening and financial crime checks).

Rome, Latium, Italy

• Coordination for the roll-out of the supplementary funds management architecture on be-half of PFO while maintaining data set and conducting analysis on PMD budget use trends
• Support monthly regional portfolio overviews through analysis of the AVP dashboard data
• GAFSP: coordination with Procurement Division for the processing of the GAFSP 6th call de-signs and support PFO in coordinating GAFSP 7th call for proposals
• Support EIF and AIIB partnership including update pipeline for possible collaboration in IFAD12
• Knowledge management: support Programme Officer on regional projects (Rural Poor Stimulus Facility, RPSF) in coordinating learning events and Knowledge management prod-ucts
• Conduct analyses and reports on RPSF allocations and implementation progress

Rome, Latium, Italy

• Provided first level support on the Loans and Grants review and disbursement monitoring process as well as assistance to the Client Portal platform (ICP) whilst cultivating effective, productive client relationships.
• Support on the management of the Non-country grants portfolio with solid expertise and knowledge on grants procedures (type of funding, flow of funds, specific financing modalities and disbursement through World Bank.
• Provided constructive feedback whilst collaborating with internal and external counterparts to meet ad hoc requests and liaise diplomatically with Donors on grants sensitive related situations
• Accountable for the implementation of new streamlined procedures and practices: IFAD Box as from May 2020 to allow Borrowers/Recipients to submit, in line with secure controls, digital versions of disbursement related.
• Researched and collected data from IFAD financial and operational systems as well as external sources for analytics reports and ad hoc queries.
• Streamlining and reengineering of both the Disbursements process and administration of L&G through automation (deployment of ICP to Non country grants, whilst identifying current inefficiencies and propose further.

Rome Area, Italy

• Team member of a multifunctional project aimed at optimising the roll out of the Dual Brand Sales Channel.
• Collected, analyzed and presented data to support the Dual Brand strategy and the retail management.
• Developed periodical monitoring reports, analytics and sector studies to be used by the leadership team.

Rome Area, Italy

• The Internship programme in IFAD has been an enriching learning assignment that is providing me full involvement in the work of the agency and helping me to better understand the importance of access to finance.
• Daily support on the disbursement process with the use of Oracle Flexcube and interpretation of established, formal guidelines to recommend solutions to Clients.
• Analytical review of withdrawal applications, validation and record of these into Institutional Loans and Grants Systems.

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