VN 23/43 Budget Officer
JOB DETAIL
VN 23/43 Budget Officer
Within the Administration Department, the Finance Division supports the overall EUMETSAT mission by coordinating the financial planning and budgeting process, collecting the organisation’s revenue, ensuring the safe keeping of its funds, executing and accounting for all financial transactions and advising and reporting on financial matters, in accordance with the Financial Rules and applicable accounting standards. The Budget Officer will be responsible for budgetary matters of multiple budgets.
- Establish and administer multiple budgets and monitor the related budgetary revenues and expenditures, in close liaison with various stakeholders;
- Coordinate the review of budgetary execution and surplus exercises, including drafting and presenting the related documents;
- Establish and maintain the budgetary nomenclature, ensuring consistency across budgetary documents, and pursue appropriate reflection in relevant areas of the ERP system (e.g. master data);
- Assist in maintaining the EUMETSAT cost accounting structure and related recharging mechanism, including execution/implementation;
- Provide support to satellite programmes as required, including attendance at meetings with external partners when necessary;
- Assist in the preparation of the long term financial planning;
- Administer budgetary transfers – including advice, approval, drafting and presenting documents, as well as implementation in SAP;
- Support Treasury activities such as production of cash flow forecasts, treasury status, overview of investments, interest rates spread and interest performance;
- Assist in other financial matters as required.
LOCATION
QUALIFICATIONS
University degree in Finance or Business Administration or equivalent.
LANGUAGES
DEADLINE
30 October 2023
- Experience in accounting, budgeting and cost accounting;
- Experience in a similar position at a consolidation level, and using major ERP systems (ideally SAP);
- Proficiency in the use of MS Office tools, and in particular Excel;
- Precise, reliable and rigorous approach to budget management;
- Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team;
- Pro-active and communicative at all levels;
- Strong sense of responsibility, especially with regards to details and confidentiality.
EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS
The initial contract will be of 4 years’ duration, with subsequent 5 year contracts being awarded thereafter, subject to individual performance and organisation requirements. There is no limit to the amount of follow-up contracts a staff member can receive up to the EUMETSAT retirement age of 63 and there are certainly opportunities to establish a long career perspective at EUMETSAT.
This post is graded A2/A4 on the EUMETSAT salary scales. The minimum basic salary for this post is EURO 6,903 per month (net of internal tax but excluding contribution toward insurance and pension) which may be negotiable on the basis of skills and experience. The salary scale provides for increments on the anniversary of taking up employment, and scales are reviewed by the EUMETSAT Council with effect from 1 January each year. In addition to basic salary, EUMETSAT offers attractive benefits. Further information, including salary details, is available on the EUMETSAT web site.
EUMETSAT is committed to providing an equal opportunities work environment for men and women.
Please note that only nationals of EUMETSAT Member States may apply. The EUMETSAT Convention requires that Staff shall be recruited on the basis of their qualifications, account being taken of the international character of EUMETSAT.
ABOUT EUMETSAT
EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation’s Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.
EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.
As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.)
