Finance Officer

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST SAINT LUCIA UNLEASHING THE BLUE ECONOMY OF THE CARIBBEAN (UBEC) Project ID: P171833 – IDA Credit No. 70880 Assignment Title: FINANCE OFFICER Reference No . LC-MOFED-571341-CS-INDV-FO-26-2 Saint Lucia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Unleashing the Blue Economy of the Caribbean (UBEC) project and intends to apply part of the proceeds to hire an Individual Consultant as Finance Officer UBEC. The consulting services (“the Services”) include the following objective: The Finance Officer (FO) will be responsible for the financial management functions in the Project Implementation Unit (PIU), overseeing the day-to-day financial management for all accounting, financial planning and budgeting, reporting, disbursements, internal controls, financial management system and supervision of a Finance Assistant hired to support the Project. The FO is the responsible officer and functional owner of the annual audits, budgeting (annual and supplementary), periodic financial and capital expenditure reporting including World Bank Interim Financial Reports (IFRs) and ad hoc reports of a primarily financial nature as well as the procedures, processes, techniques and tools necessary to execute these functions. Accordingly, the FO is accountable for coordination, execution, collation and submission of all documentation in satisfaction of requests and requirements from recipients of the foregoing outputs and associated inputs, whether they are produced by the Finance Unit or not. The FO functions will be undertaken in accordance with the related provisions of the Project Operation Manual. The Finance Officer is a full-time position, renewable annually based on performance and availability of funds. The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be found at the following website: www.finance.gov.lc The Department of Finance now invites eligible Individual Consultants (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest i