Jobs at World Resources Institute

Perform day-to-day accounting and bookkeeping for WRI Rwanda, including invoice review, journal entries, reconciliations, payments, payroll support, audits, financial close, supplier onboarding, cash management, and statutory remittances. The role coordinates with finance, operations, HR, IT, program, and global accounting teams while maintaining accurate records and compliance with internal controls, donor requirements, and Rwandan regulations.

The Data Science Associate will co-manage Ethiopia’s restoration fund information system, translate government needs into technical requirements, and support platform design. Responsibilities include geospatial data quality control, GIS and remote-sensing analysis, data pipeline development, maps and dashboards, system validation, partner training, research, communications, and AI-enabled workflow automation. The role requires collaboration with Ethiopian government agencies and periodic travel to project sites.

Leads budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, variance analysis, cash-flow forecasting, allocations, cost recovery, month-end support, audit preparation, and donor grant compliance for WRI Europe’s multi-entity, multi-currency operations. Maintains planning assumptions, dashboards, financial systems, grant records, and data quality while supporting process improvements and advising internal stakeholders on finance and cost-coding matters.

Manages European accounting operations, including reconciliations, monthly and year-end close, journal entries, expenses, invoices, payments, cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, audit support, compliance, ERP data quality, dashboards, and process improvements. Collaborates with global accounting teams and regional stakeholders across the UK, Netherlands, and Germany, while supporting accounting system configuration and documentation.

Leads CHAMP’s subnational climate finance agenda across global and country programs. Responsibilities include designing and monitoring finance workstreams, advising governments and financial institutions, coordinating technical assistance, shaping MDB and climate fund advocacy, overseeing budgets and contracts, managing multi-country projects, and representing WRI externally. The role also builds strategic partnerships, supports fundraising, synthesizes lessons, and provides direction to finance staff and analysts.

Provides executive administrative support to the CEF Global Director and leadership team through calendar management, travel and visa coordination, expense reporting, correspondence, meeting logistics, event planning, stakeholder liaison, document management, and workflow tracking. The role supports fundraising and partner engagement, improves administrative processes, coordinates with internal functions, and handles special projects while maintaining confidentiality and managing competing priorities.

Leads WRI’s global IT strategy, operations, cybersecurity, AI adoption, enterprise platforms, governance, service delivery, resilience, and technology risk management. Oversees a distributed 34-person team, workforce planning, organizational transformation, vendor relationships, budgets, and service improvements across international offices. Partners with senior leadership to align technology investments with organizational priorities, strengthen enterprise systems and connectivity, and ensure secure, reliable, user-centered technology services.

Supports Workday enterprise systems for HR, Finance, and Payroll through user support, data validation, reconciliations, documentation, release testing, reporting, and issue tracking. Assists with business process analysis, requirements gathering, process mapping, UAT, and process improvement. Supports integrations by validating data flows, documenting mappings, analyzing XML, JSON, and APIs, and assisting with troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Supports accounting oversight for international subsidiary offices, including transaction reviews, month-end close monitoring, account reconciliation reviews, audit coordination, and financial documentation. Provides Workday process support, troubleshooting, training, and capacity building to country accounting teams. Assists with accounting coverage, policy implementation, internal controls, process improvements, and coordination between global and subsidiary office stakeholders.

Supports financial management and administration for complex grants, including maintaining budgets and forecasts, tracking expenditures, monitoring contracts and sub-grants, processing partner invoices, and ensuring grant compliance. Coordinates event, conference, travel, visa, meeting, recruitment, onboarding, and organizational tracker activities. Collaborates with accounting, payments, HR, program teams, partners, and consultants while managing multiple deadlines and operational priorities.