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IDB Invest is the private sector arm of the IDB Group and an international financial institution committed to addressing the development needs of Latin America and the Caribbean. Our mission is to support sustainable enterprises and projects that deliver financial results while maximizing social and environmental impact in the region.

IDB Invest operates in 26 countries, structured across four geographic regions and three industry verticals: Infrastructure and Energy, Financial Intermediaries, and Corporates.

In support of a new transformative business model “Originate to Share” our shareholders recently approved a $3.5 billion capitalization. This will allow IDB Invest to significantly scale up its investments, nearly doubling annual financing from approximately $8 billion to $19 billion, and unlocking greater private sector participation to drive development and climate impact across the region.

About this position

IDB Invest is strengthening its focus on financial sustainability and long-term profitability. The Financial Planning team under the Controllership Division within the Finance and Administration Department is responsible for conducting comprehensive financial planning activities, including long-term capital adequacy assessments, stress testing, liquidity analysis, and profitability evaluations under various regulatory and market-driven frameworks. Through rigorous financial modeling and scenario analysis, the Financial Planning Team ensures that IDB Invest can meet its development goals and financial sustainability.

As a key member of the team, you will help shape how the institution balances growth, development ambition, and financial resilience. You will contribute to defining how IDB Invest generates sustainable returns while preserving capital strength, protecting its credit profile, and optimizing its balance sheet under an evolving business model and rating-agency frameworks.

This role is suited for professionals who enjoy working at the intersection of quantitative rigor and strategic decision-making, and who are motivated by understanding how complex financial institutions create sustainable value under growth pressures, capital constraints and structural changes. The ideal candidate is a proactive and intellectually curious professional with a strong interest in banking and strategic finance, and who has had hands-on experience with modelling risk adjusted returns for bespoke financial assets and institutions. Knowledge of financial instruments and banking products with an understanding of their impact on liquidity and capital adequacy, as well as excellent analytical skills, and the ability to communicate complex financial concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders are required. Experience or interest in regulatory frameworks related to capital and liquidity management (i.e. Credit Rating Agencies Assessment for Multilateral Institutions or Basel Accords) is an asset.

What you’ll do

As Sr Officer, your key Responsibilities will be:

• Analyze IDB Invest’s long-term profitability drivers and return on capital, including: funding structure, and portfolio composition and cost efficiency.
• Assess structural trade-offs between growth, impact, capital consumption from multiple angles, and profitability.
• Develop frameworks to evaluate segment-level, transaction-level, and product-level profitability, risk-adjusted returns, and capital intensity.
• Enhance long-term financial planning models to integrate capital adequacy, liquidity, funding costs, and profitability metrics in a coherent framework.
• Support scenario analysis on capital strategies, including retained earnings generation, hybrid instruments, risk transfers, and portfolio rebalancing.
• Translate evolving rating-agency methodologies and regulatory developments into implications for capital and financial sustainability.
• Partner with Risk, Treasury, Investments, and Strategy teams to provide forward-looking financial insights for new initiatives and product innovation.
• Evaluate structural shifts in the business model and their impact on long-term earnings capacity and capital resilience.

In addition, as Lead Officer, your key responsibilities will be to:

• Act as the technical lead in cross-functional committees and working groups, representing Financial Planning and shaping strategic discussions on profitability and capital strategies.
• Own and deliver complex, high-impact projects and frameworks across departments, securing alignment at the institutional level.
• Drive the continuous evolution of Financial Planning profitability reporting frameworks to support scaling-up operations and long-term sustainability.
• Mentor junior staff and guide knowledge development within the team to strengthen institutional capability and succession planning.

What you'll need

• Education: Advanced degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Finance, Economics, or a related field.

• Experience: At least 6 years of relevant experience in banking, multilateral institutions, structured finance, capital management, or strategic financial planning.

Technical & Professional Competencies:

• Ability to assess profitability through a risk-adjusted and capital-aware lens.
• Strong understanding of banking financial statements, capital adequacy, and liquidity management.
• Experience modeling balance sheet and income statement projections under multiple scenarios.
• Good accounting knowledge to ensure alignment between planning/profitability models and IDB Invest’s financial statements, including reconciliation of key drivers to GL/financial reporting and clear bridges between management views and US GAAP reporting.
• Familiarity with credit rating agency methodologies or Basel-type regulatory frameworks is a plus.
• Demonstrated capacity to translate technical analysis into strategic insights.
• Proven experience structuring datasets, KPI hierarchies, and reporting architecture to enable reliable analytics, with strong attention to governance, metric consistency, reconciliation logic, and embedded controls.
• Demonstrated ability to design analytical dashboards and senior management reporting that inform decision-making, using Power BI (DAX data modeling) or comparable business intelligence platforms.
• Working knowledge of databases and automation tools (SQL and/or Python), with the ability to enhance reporting efficiency and analytical depth.

Personal Profile:

• Systems thinker who enjoys understanding how financial structures behave over long horizons.
• Comfortable engaging with ambiguity and incomplete information.
• Clear communicator capable of influencing across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative, intellectually honest, and committed to institutional impact.

• Languages: Spoken and written proficiency in English is required. Proficiency in another official Bank language (Spanish or Portuguese) is a plus.

Requirements

• Citizenship: No 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.

Type of contract and duration

International staff contract, 36 months initially, renewable upon mutual agreement.

What we offer

Our culture

At the IDB Group, we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work while finding their purpose. Our people consistently strive for excellence, and we recognize and celebrate the impact of their contributions.

In our efforts to drive innovation, we intentionally include all voices, cultivate a sense of belonging and champion fairness. We welcome individuals from underrepresented groups to join us and share their unique perspectives.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job interview process. If you require an accommodation to complete this application, please email us at accommodations@iadb.org.

Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.

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