Chief Financial and Performance Officer & Controller

WIPO’s D-2 finance chief provides enterprise-wide leadership for financial stewardship, performance and risk, advising Member States and oversight bodies while modernising planning, controls and ERP-enabled services and leading the Finance and Planning Department in Geneva.

Department: Administration, Finance and Management Sector

• Set enterprise financial, performance and risk strategy
• Lead planning, budgeting, internal control and results-based management
• Advise Member States, governing bodies and oversight functions
• Drive customer-centred process and ERP transformation
• Use analytics and artificial intelligence to improve financial services
• Lead the Finance and Planning Department and represent WIPO externally

• Advanced university degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics or a related field, or a first university degree with two additional years of experience
• At least 15 years of progressively responsible executive leadership experience
• Leadership experience in complex international organisations
• Extensive experience in finance, budgeting, performance, transformation, risk and internal control
• Experience with ERP transformation, process redesign, data and artificial intelligence
• Experience engaging governing and audit or oversight bodies
• Excellent command of English

• Two-year appointment renewable subject to performance and applicable rules