The posting
Job Description
Grade: C Deadline: 9 November 2026 (11:59 PM KST)
Introduction
The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest dedicated multilateral climate fund and invests in impactful, innovative, catalytic programs and projects in developing countries across the globe. The GCF has a portfolio of 353 projects across 134 countries, with a total commitment of USD 20.2 billion to date.
In 2023, an additional USD 12.8 billion was pledged, to support our new strategic and programming cycle from 2024-2027; our ambition is to grow to become at least a USD 50 billion fund by 2030. Rooted in the core objectives of impact and efficiency, access and a focus on the most vulnerable, and mobilizing a much higher scale of public and private sector financial flows for climate action we have an unparalleled scale of resources, which, together with our risk appetite and flexibility allows us to bring together different partners and stakeholders in innovative partnerships for profound impact.
GCF is seeking a top-tier individual with a demonstrable track record of harnessing experience, energy and networks to tackle complex global climate change challenges.
You will be committed to making a positive, measurable difference through a mission-driven role, and thrive in a fast-paced, diverse environment.
You will be a nurturer of people: recognizing and growing the talent around you, exemplifying values of transparency, respect and innovation.
You will be committed to learning, knowledge-sharing, convening and communicating with partners to work together to ideate, develop and implement climate action initiatives that make a profound difference to people and planet.
You will join a team of talented, committed individuals representing almost 80 nationalities contributing skills and experience from academic, scientific, private, government and nonprofit backgrounds. Together, we work with governments, communities and civil society, technical agencies, and the private sector across the world.
Interested in more information? Learn about working for GCF: https://www.greenclimate.fund/about/careers View current vacancies: https://jobs.greenclimate.fund/
About the Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Set up in 2010 by the 194 countries who are Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), GCF takes its responsibility as the world’s largest dedicated multilateral climate fund to heart. GCF funds transformative climate projects across the developing world, supporting countries in their responses and actions to tackle climate change while fostering sustainable development within their communities.
Our country-driven approach ensures that our actions are tailored to the unique circumstances and national aspirations of each nation we support. Besides channeling public and private sector investment through a broad range of financing instruments, GCF builds the capacity of developing countries to take climate action through an extensive Readiness Programme ensuring countries are increasingly well-equipped and financed to manage their climate futures.
Headquartered in the Republic of Korea, GCF operates with a diverse and talented workforce of over 300 people.
Role Summary
The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager provides leadership and authoritative financial insight to inform decision making by the Senior Management Team of the Green Climate Fund across budgetary, resourcing, and enterprise planning matters. The role leads the analysis, monitoring, and forecasting of institutional resources, working in close partnership with Secretariat budget focal points and Independent Units to ensure the efficient, transparent, and strategic allocation of resources in support of the Fund’s mandate and approved work programmes. The position serves as a key institutional counterpart to the Budget Committee and other Board appointed committees, as applicable.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Leads the strategic expansion of financial and operational analysis frameworks to strengthen institutional planning controls, enhance forecasting discipline, and enable executive level, data driven decision making.
- Generates forward looking, enterprise level insights into organizational efficiency and effectiveness, identifying systemic information gaps and designing innovative approaches to capture and institutionalize critical decision support data.
- Sets the direction for continuous improvement of managerial reporting and multi year budgeting processes, benchmarking against peer international financial institutions and embedding international best practice appropriate to the GCF context.
- Provides leadership and talent stewardship for the FP&A function, fostering a high performing team culture, building institutional capability, and supporting staff development and succession planning.
- Leads the development and implementation of Financial Reporting Metrics to support management and board decision making.
- Acts as a senior financial adviser and trusted counterpart to the Secretariat’s Senior Management Team and Heads of Independent Units, challenging and validating resourcing assumptions and shaping coherent narratives for executive and Board level reporting.
- Provides institutional oversight of FP&A analysis on the administrative budget, ensuring disciplined budget control and the provision of strategic insights to support senior management and Board decision making, including advocacy for internal initiatives through the multi annual budget process.
- Leads the planning and engagement with the Budget Committee.
- Drives engagement between the FP&A and Financial Reporting teams to ensure production of complete, timely and accurate management information.
- Facilitates the development of internal and external networks for seamless performance of financial planning, analysis, and reporting assignments.
- Holds end to end accountability for the preparation of management reporting, including oversight of information collection, validation, consolidation, and timely delivery in line with governance requirements.
- Oversees the timely collection and consolidation of bottom up resourcing estimates, ensuring readiness for senior management challenge and Budget Committee review.
- Leads the development and institutionalization of frameworks, policies, and standard operating procedures that embed lessons learned and best practices in financial planning and analysis across the Fund.
Requirements
- Education, Certifications, and Language Requirements
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Commerce Finance, Accounting. A Bachelor’s Degree in relevant fields with an additional 2 years of experience may be accepted in lieu of the Master’s degree requirement.
- Fully qualified Financial or Managerial Accountant (e.g., CA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CMA)
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
Experience
- A minimum of 15 years’ experience in financial planning, analysis and reporting work in an International/Multilateral Organization with funding size and operations similar to the GCF. At least 5 years’ experience in a management or equivalent leadership role, with accountability for institution wide outcomes.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Power Automate, and business intelligence tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
- Experience in data analytics and programming skills in Python etc. will be an added advantage.
Competencies
Demonstrates competencies for planning and organizing, teamwork, communication, judgement, managing performance, building trust and empowering others through the following:
- Gathering relevant information and making tough decisions when necessary.
- Managing in a deliberate and predictable way
- Delegates responsibility, clarifies expectations, and gives staff autonomy in important areas of their work.
- Accurately judges the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task and matches task to skills
- Proven experience in the development of high performing teams.
- Identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required.
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
- Foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning.
- Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals.
- Solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise; is willing to learn from others.
- Demonstrates personal accountability for the delivery of complex, high impact outputs within prescribed time, cost, and quality standards.
- Considers all those to whom services are provided to be “clients” and seeks to see things from clients’ point of view.
- Actively seeks to apply technology to appropriate tasks.
- Shows willingness to learn new and emerging technology in financial planning and analysis.
For details on grade levels, salary scales and benefits, please refer to: https://www.greenclimate.fund/document/staff-regulations
The closing date for application is 9 November 2026. Applications submitted after the deadline may not be considered.
*The person assessed by the Selection Panel as most suitable for the position will be proposed for appointment. Selection among short-listed candidates will also take into account performance at interview, appropriate testing, and references.
Applications from women and nationals of developing countries are strongly encouraged.
#LI-TC1
