The Budget, Performance Review, and Strategic Planning Vice Presidency (BPS) is organized into two Departments: BPS’s Global Practices and Regions (BPSGR) with teams supporting Operational Units; and BPS’s Corporate and Middle Office (BPSCM) with teams supporting Institutional, Governance, and Administrative Units as well as providing Corporate planning, budgeting, and reporting services. As a Resource Management (RM) function, BPS has the following key accountabilities: strategy and business planning; expense management; performance review and reporting; resource management infrastructure development and maintenance; internal controls and risk management; and resource management capacity building. BPS’ service delivery model has three core roles: (1) Business Partners (serving clients directly with focus on decision support and performance oversight); (2) Centers of Expertise (providing thought-leadership and analytics, designing business finance policies, practices, systems and coordinating business finance knowledge management); and (3) Service Center (managing delivery of high volume and transactional and reporting services across the Bank, including help desk support to clients). 

Unit Overview
The purpose of the BPS Solutions team is to provide excellent, sustainable and valued RM data, knowledge, processing, reporting and systems solutions to enable BPS and its clients determine and manage budget-related resources efficiently and effectively, in full compliance with applicable policy and regulatory requirements. The team works alongside BPS and its clients to identify business needs and to determine solutions to business problems. The solutions are based on achieving excellence across BPS in the following disciplines: data management; knowledge management/advisory; process design and execution; and increasingly standardized and automated technology-based solutions.

Duties and Accountabilities:
The ETC will support the Policy & Audit work program within BPSSO. Under this work program BPSO is accountable for governing the development, maintenance and interpretation of technical RM policy for BPS, including overseeing BPS’ input and response on RM matters raised by Group Internal Audit (GIA).

Policy and Procedures
BPSSO coordinates management of Policies and Procedure Framework (PPF) documents for the BPS function (strategic implementation plan, drafting, publishing, updating, retiring of PPF documents).  BPSSO also provides advisory services on BPS-sponsored/issued policy documents. Duties include:

• Coordinating all drafting steps, including the final upload in the PPF Repository, of BPS’s Policy and Procedure documents together with all relevant stakeholders (e.g. Management, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and LEGIA)).
• Liaising with stakeholders and SMEs as needed.
• Organizing meetings with stakeholders on PPF issues/drafts, chairing meetings if needed.
• Delivering timely and high-quality responses to other units on questions regarding BPS PPF documents or other matters related to BPS’s PPF Framework.
• Maintaining the BPS PPF website, drafting AskBudget Announcements on BPS’s PPF issues.

IFI Budget Network
WB is one of the founding members of the “IFI Planning, Budgeting & Performance Management” Network. This Network of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) consists of 22 member organizations that share a common space to exchange information and best practices on issues related to planning and budgeting. The network uses questionnaires initiated by one member to benchmark specific aspects of the budget function. The results of questionnaires are available to representatives nominated by each IFI, who are required to sign a code of conduct based on confidentiality. All results are summarized and IFI names need to be “blinded” before being shared.  BPSSO is the coordinating unit for the WB’s Membership in this Network. Duties include:

• Coordinating, completing and submitting WB’s answers and responses to IFI surveys and questionnaires.
• Working with BPS units to develop the WB’s own surveys as needed. Keeping participating WB units informed of the outcome of surveys and summarize the results of these surveys to publish on the Network’s website (one full / one blinded version).
•  Preparing presentations for the annual IFI meeting of members on special areas of interest to WB
•  Coordinating with the IFI secretariat and the host of the IFI Network as needed on matters related to the IFI Network (especially the IFI website, WB’s payments for the technical support of the IFI Network).

Audit Coordination
BPSSO is also responsible for coordination of institutional audits involving the BPS Vice Presidency.  The unit established a Working Arrangement with the Group Internal Audit (GIA) with respect to GIAs audit activities in Budget/Expense/Revenue/Resource-Planning related areas across Bank units. BPSSO coordinates audit-related activities within BPS in close collaboration with Management, the Front Office and units responsible for action plans. Duties include: