Your job and responsibilities

Do you like​ working with figures and easily grasp complex rules and regulations? Do you possess a strong service-minded culture with a strong sense of respect of personal data? Are you well organised, reactive, able to propose pragmatic solutions to complex issues and embrace a wide range of tasks and responsibilities?

As Head of unit in charge of financial services, public procurements, office space management and missions, you grant optimal financial services (central financial initiation cell, ex-ante financial verification, ex-post financial control etc.) related to all operations of the general secretariat. In parallel, you assume the function of internal control coordinator and coordinate the implementation of the Internal control standards. As infrastructure liaison officer for questions related to office space allocation, you closely cooperate with the relevant services from the EESC to grant a harmonised approach and implementation of decisions of common interest pertaining to this role.

Are you the talent we are looking for?

• ​​You have a level of higher education corresponding to a complete cycle of university studies ending in a degree where the normal duration of these studies is four years or more, or a level of education corresponding to a complete cycle of university studies ending in a degree followed by relevant professional experience of at least one year where the normal duration of these studies is at least three years;
• You have at least 10 years of professional experience in financial management preferably acquired in a public body;
• Experience in using the ABAC software within the institutions as authorising officer would be an asset;
• You have acquired a relevant working experience of at least 3 years in managing teams; you can motivate, develop and successfully lead multicultural teams and maintain constructive relations with all client services and stakeholders;
• You have excellent analytical and synthesis skills, organization skills as well as critical sense;
• You have a strategic vision of the challenges the Directorate will face in the upcoming years and the capacity to formulate concrete and realistic proposals to embrace change and successfully implement it;
• You are able to quickly assimilate internal decisions and regulations and check their correct application, to work under pressure and to meet deadlines;
• You are a rigorous person, with a strong sense of responsibility who knows how to work independently but with team spirit, endowed with a sense of interpersonal relationships and diplomacy as well as with integrity and discretion;
• You have a very good understanding of the political environment of the CoR and of the European institutions;
• You have a thorough knowledge of one of the official languages of the European Union and a satisfactory knowledge of another of these languages. For functional reasons, a thorough knowledge of English or French is required; a satisfactory knowledge of the second of these two languages would be an asset;
• You have a good command of IT applications and tools (Outlook, Excel, Word, Business Objects, SharePoint, etc.);
• Knowledge of the cooperation agreement with the EESC would be an asset;