Technical and Business Support – Loan Management System Finance Department – AKI Division  

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

IDB Invest is looking for a technical and business expert to develop, support, and assisting in the execution of new initiatives within technology.  The role will work with banking operations, in the support of our loan management platform.  The individual will work with a dynamic group of technologist, operations, finance, and business divisions of the bank.

What you’ll do

• Assist in the support of a Loan Management System.

• Create and execute complex queries and reports on demand in the Loan Management System Datamart.

• Run the bank support for a multi-tier software platform from core system, data-warehouse, cash management system and procedures, interfaces, Cloud integrations, and enhancement requests.

• Work with the technology related support programs, monitoring jobs, end-of-day reports, SQL queries, RESTful web API’s, Azure technologies, etc.

• Participate on the structure, analysis, planning, and execution against new systems/applications and improvements of existing solutions.

• Participate in technical evaluations of new products or services to build requirement documents in both business and functional specifications.

• Create business cases, and prioritization schedules for issues, enhancements, and wish-list.

• Perform coding and/or configuration to meet documented needs, applying standard procedures and techniques.

• Participate substantively in testing the functionality of systems being developed and whether requirements gathered and approved are being met.

• Monitoring of scheduled jobs and troubleshooting of the production issues regarding to the Loan Management System and interfaces with other systems.

What  you´ll need: 

• Education: A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, engineering, or business,

• Experience: with a minimum of 7 years of meaningful experience in Accounting, Banking, Finance and Computer Science. MBA and/or master’s degree is a plus.

• Languages: English and Spanish 

Requirements

• 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

Selection Criteria:

• Strong demonstrable experience in loan management servicing, accounting systems, transaction processing, billing, collections, disbursements, repayments, and accounting concepts.

• Strong demonstrable experience and knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle and SQL Server. Experience in creating SQL complex queries.

• Ability to structure the support of the business in a structured manner, including running key governance meetings with senior management, user community, and assessing risk.

• Help building an operational resilience model to ensure support is available 24×7.

• Technical management of upgrades, patches, release notes to ensure impact assessment across a line business unit.

• Good Project management skills to help with the execution of new initiatives, i.e. business / functional requirements, road-maps, reporting, tracking, and communications to all stakeholders.

• Ability to communicate effectively with personal and presentation skills.

• Ability to work self-sufficiently on assigned tasks.

• Understanding of public cloud platform architectures and hybrid cloud architectures and concepts (focus on Azure, AWS)

• Experience in Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices such as Continuous Integration and automated deployment to ensure macro support model.

• Expertise in Linux and Windows environments, and server administration.

• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Git and Bitbucket.

• Knowledge of .Net Solutions with Azure Technologies (microservices architecture), SharePoint Framework (React Framework) and Azure DevOps is a plus.

Characteristics of the Consultancy

• Type of contract and modality: Consultant full time

• Length of contract: 12 Months.

• Location: Washington, DC. Headquarters

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: 2 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 [email protected]  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 Invest

IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, is a multilateral development bank committed to promoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through the private sector. IDB Invest finances sustainable companies and projects to achieve financial results and maximize economic, social, and environmental development in the region. With a portfolio of $14.1 billion in asset management and 325 clients in 25 countries, IDB Invest provides innovative financial solutions and advisory services that meet the needs of its clients in a variety of industries.

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