Jennifer Thomson

Senior Financial Management Consultant

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

About

Senior Financial Management leader with a demonstrated history of achievement in international development finance. Expert in financial management, fiduciary risk and good governance in the public and private sectors. Strong finance skills spanning Public Finance, Economic Development, Policy Analysis, Public-private Partnerships, and Institutional Capacity Building.

Experience

  • Senior Financial Management Consultant at Self Employed
    Sep 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

    Senior Financial Management Advisor with the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

  • The World Bank ()
    • Director, Environment & Social Standards, Procurement and Financial Management
      2017 - Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Led a team of highly specialized staff in developing the Bank’s environmental and social standards and procurement and FM policies and overseeing their application in the Bank’s development operations world-wide.

    • Chief Financial Management Officer
      2013 - Jun 2019 · 6 yrs 6 mos

      Led the Bank’s financial management sector of more than two hundred qualified finance specialists located across the globe supporting partner countries in strengthening their public financial management, financial data analytical and risk management, and corporate financial accounting and auditing capacities, and in delivering assurance that the Bank’s financing was being used for intended purposes by Borrowers. Management representative/observer at the Bank’s Audit Committee.

    • South Asia Regional Manager Financial Management
      2010 - 2013 · 3 yrs

      Led, managed and developed a team of 46 financial management specialists supporting the design and preparation of financial management arrangements and fiduciary risk assessments for development projects, and monitoring fiduciary performance throughout implementation in a broad range of sectors in the South Asia countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka Supported skills and capacity development through regional learning events, integration with global initiatives, south-south exchanges and accounting and auditing standards development public financial reform projects