WBG Young Professional

The World Bank Group’s Young Professionals Program (YPP) offers exceptional professionals the opportunity to apply their technical expertise and contribute to development challenges. YPs work across the World Bank Group in various rotations to deepen knowledge and develop as future leaders in global development.

Responsibilities

• Manage and drive special initiatives in the subsectors or across the TRP space under guidance of TRP Global Sector Manager/Global Sector Leads.
• Support development and implementation of sector strategies to support profitable, sustainable, consistent, high-quality growth for the portfolio.
• Update and operationalize the TRP Playbook as needed.
• Create impactful business development material including pitchbooks, presentations, mappings and deal sheets for various regions and subsectors.
• Work alongside Industry Specialists and Investment Officers throughout the project lifecycle including screening, due diligence, appraisal, and approvals.
• Support portfolio monitoring and extract best practices and lessons learned to inform future projects.
• Participate in development and deployment of advisory and value-added sector products such as GRIP and Pillar.
• Develop sector knowledge deliverables such as guidance notes, presentations, and monthly knowledge and pipeline calls with regions.
• Facilitate knowledge flow across IFC and promote adoption of new approaches and best practices for TRP including mainstream investment, upstream and advisory services.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Master's degree in finance and/or economics; accounting is a plus.
• 2-6 years of relevant professional experience.
• Work experience in investment or corporate banking or financial consulting preferred.
• Basic understanding of key assessment aspects for investment transactions.
• Understanding financial models, financial statements, and equity valuations.
• Ability to prepare investment analysis with project/transaction description, market and industry analysis and investment return analysis.
• Data analysis and synthesis skills; comfortable navigating databases.
• Master Excel and PowerPoint skills with strong data processing capacity.
• Able to distill and summarize large amounts of information from various sources to prepare impactful documents and presentations.
• Ability to utilize graphics and tables to effectively and creatively present data.
• Data analysis, statistics and presentation skills such as Tableau are preferred.
• Ability to multi-task, be pro-active, and deliver excellence under time pressure.
• Ability to effectively communicate with different stakeholders or task owners.
• Ability to interact effectively with clients and colleagues from various cultural backgrounds.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in other languages is an advantage.
• Excellent people skills, openness to feedback and new ideas.

Skills

• Financial Analysis
• Investment Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• Equity Valuation
• Financial Statements Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Data Synthesis
• Excel
• Power Point
• Tableau
• Market Analysis
• Industry Analysis
• Investment Return Analysis
• Presentation Skills
• Client Engagement
• Cross-Cultural Communication

Languages

English