Extended Term Consultant

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:// The World Bank Group Controllers, Solutions and Transformation Division, is seeking an experienced, forward-looking consultant to challenge conventional ways of working and help shape the future of finance.

The consultant will engage leadership and cross-functional teams to diagnose complex issues, assess end-to-end processes, and design practical transformation solutions that improve efficiency, controls, data use, and stakeholder experience.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead a program to diagnose and transform end-to-end finance processes, including Record to Report (R2R), Order to Cash (O2C), Procure to Pay (P2P), and Originate to Distribute (OTD).
• Use data analysis, process mining, performance measures, systems evidence, and other diagnostic techniques to identify bottlenecks, variation, rework, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Design future-state processes and prioritized transformation roadmaps covering simplification, standardization, controls, data, technology, automation, AI, and agentic solutions.
• Engage leadership, facilitate cross-functional alignment, and challenge stakeholders to think differently about finance processes, operating models, and emerging capabilities.
• Translate findings into clear executive recommendations, decision points, business cases, and implementation actions, while transferring knowledge to internal teams.