Manager, Financial Sustainability & Reinsurance

World Bank Group•Washington, DC

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is a member of the World Bank Group with a mission to promote foreign direct investment into developing countries to help end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. MIGA houses the World Bank Group (WBG) guarantee platform which brings together products and experts from the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and MIGA for simplicity, efficiency, and speed. MIGA serves as a one-stop shop for all WBG guarantee business, providing the best guarantee solutions for clients to meet project needs and development priorities. The platform provides three types of coverages: credit guarantees for loans to the public or private sector; trade finance guarantees for trade finance projects involving public entities; and political risk insurance against non-commercial risks for private sector projects or public-private partnerships. For more information, visit www.miga.org The MIGA Finance and Risk Department (MIGFR) acts as the custodian of MIGA's financial integrity with a focus on both income sustainability and balance sheet strength. MIGFR maintains the Agency's capital adequacy and risk frameworks, prices guarantees, manages reinsurance operations that allow significant leveraging of the Agency's small capital base, oversees credit risk, and provides the financial modeling and analytics that guide MIGA's strategic decisions. As MIGA enters a period of significant strategic expansion of its Guarantee platform, MIGFR is being realigned into two managerial teams to support the Agency's growth ambitions and the increasingly integrated nature of its work program. The Reinsurance & Financial Sustainability team brings together Reinsurance, Corporate Finance & Strategy, the economic capital framework, guarantee pricing, and provisioning and model maintenance under unified leadership — with the objective of ensuring that capital, pricing, and reinsurance decisions are made within a coherent framework for MIGA's financial sustainability. MIGFR is seeking a Manager for the Financial Sustainability & Reinsurance team who will provide strategic leadership across these functions and drive integration with the broader Agency. The team will own MIGA's capital adequacy framework, together with the Agency's financial strategy and reinsurance program.

Requirements

Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Risk Management, Actuarial Science, or other relevant field, with a minimum of 12 years of directly relevant professional experience.
Demonstrated ability to operate at the intersection of technical rigor and corporate strategy — and a proven track record of translating complex quantitative outputs into strategic recommendations that inform institutional decision-making at the senior leadership level.
Strong quantitative and modeling skills, including experience in financial modeling and scenario analysis, paired with the strategic acuity to distill analytical findings into actionable insights that shape financial and organizational strategy.
A conceptual and strategic thinker who also fully grasps technical details and nuances. Strong ability to develop sound and practical solutions to complex problems.
Demonstrated experience leading and managing diverse professional teams, including setting strategic direction, managing performance, building team cohesion, and driving operational or institutional change.
Excellent communication skills. Strong writing and oral communications skills are essential. Ability to articulate and communicate complex and highly technical matters for non-technical audiences in a clear, concise and convincing manner.
Highly organized and pays attention to details. Experienced with designing robust business processes to ensure accurate and high-quality analytical deliverables with strong internal controls.
Strong interpersonal and diplomacy skills. Ability to build effective partnerships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including resolving conflicting views and forging consensus.
Strong leadership, managerial and organizational skills, ability to effectively plan and allocate resources to deliver the team's work programs in a timely manner with high quality, including responding to unexpected urgent tasks. Commitment to innovations and process improvement, including utilizing the latest new technologies.
Excellent work ethic and results focus, with a “can do” attitude.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership to the team, set strategic direction, build team capability, manage performance, and drive integration across the constituent functions. Foster cross-team learning and drive the evolution of the team's processes, structure, and ways of working in line with MIGA's growth and developments in technology.
Own the design, maintenance, and continuous improvement of MIGA's capital adequacy framework, encompassing the economic capital model, guarantee pricing, provisioning, and the related financial modeling infrastructure. Ensure the framework is applied consistently across both present-position and forward-looking analyses, and drive continuous improvement, strong internal controls, and innovation in modeling practice.
Oversee MIGA's corporate finance work and investment strategy; drive integration between guarantee and investment portfolio strategies to enable a coherent approach to target risk/return and financial sustainability; lay the groundwork for evolving towards a Risk-Adjusted Return on Capital (RAROC) framework for portfolio optimization.
Provide strategic oversight of MIGA's reinsurance program — central to the Agency's business model in enabling risk transfer, capital efficiency, and the scaling of the guarantee platform — ensuring reinsurance strategy is integrated with and supports MIGA's broader financial sustainability and capital objectives. Drive process refinements and inform the future direction and scaling of the reinsurance program from a financial and portfolio strategy lens. The Manager's oversight of the reinsurance function operates at the level of strategy, financial integration, and program direction, with direct responsibility for reinsurance counterparty relationships and project-level syndication activity sitting with the Head of Reinsurance, who maintains a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Director.