Financial Analyst

Within the Directorate Central Route Charges Office and Finance, The Financial Planning & Analysis Unit is responsible for supervising, monitoring and controlling the execution of the OPEX and CAPEX budgets, for developing and maintaining business partner relationships of a financial or economical nature throughout the Agency. The Unit manages the capital expenditure of all CAPEX projects.

YOUR ROLE

Your role will be to:

• Produce and further improve the monthly financial reporting package (forecast of Agency’s costs, financial predictions including trends and evolution of costs) for senior management.
• Identify inconsistencies in financial and reporting processes, propose solutions to fix these and monitor the implementation of corrective actions.
• Provide advice and recommendations in field of expertise, and develop financial business cases / models for major projects and produce cost benefit analysis.
• Provide risk and sensitivity analysis for contingency planning purposes and a structured pipeline of insightful analytics that anticipate change and drive decision-making.
• Support financial evaluation of capital expenditures, technical programs, and/or other business development projects.
• Ensure that BI tools/reports are designed, developed, and leveraged in such a way that optimises value to the financial activities and business areas.
• Collaborate effectively with internal financial teams on activities and with the various business areas to understand sources of potential financial issues and fix these.
• Keep abreast on best practises and technologies in field of expertise to leverage all possible opportunities, e.g. reporting, analysis, process improvements, systems use, etc.
• Lead and/or contribute to ad-hoc analysis and participate to meetings, studies, etc as needed.
• Carry out any other task in line with the main purpose of the job.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES

• University degree of at least 4 years in a relevant domain plus 3 years of relevant professional experience (e.g. Finance, Business Administration, etc) or university degree of 3 years in a relevant domain plus 4 years of relevant working experience.
• Internal candidates should go to page check on the intranet to see what level of in-house experience is considered equivalent to educational qualifications where appropriate.
• Experience in financial planning and analysis.
• Experience in financial & management reporting.
• Experience with Oracle, Hyperion or any other budget planning and execution ERP.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Financial modelling skills.
• IT literate, comfortable operating and learning new systems, in particular Power BI or other Business Intelligence tool.
• Communication: You are able to foster two-way communication.
• Teamwork: You foster teamwork.
• Planning and organising: You know how to plan ahead and adapt as required.
• Quality focus: You set and foster high quality standards.
• Result focus: You seek to improve personal performance.
• Ability to work in a multinational and multicultural environment.
• Professional conduct in line with the corporate behaviours of the Agency, i.e. result-driven, readiness to change, customer focus, integrity and team-player approach.
• The working languages of the Agency are English and French. For this particular job, candidates must be proficient users of English at level C1/C2. The selected candidate will have to acquire at least a basic knowledge of French at level A1/A2 before the end of the probation period. Knowledge of French at recruitment will be an asset.
• The levels relate to the European-framework-reference Common European Framework of References for languages (CEFR).

Source: https://jobs.eurocontrol.int/jobs/financial-analyst-noc-cf-2024-ad-771-1