Your role
As a Finance Analyst, you will:
1. develop and maintain the analytical frameworks and tools used for financial and headcount data analysis and compilation, ensuring high-quality data for planning and monitoring purposes in different areas including operational planning, projects and cost allocations as well;
2. analyse complex data from multiple sources, develop financial models and multi-annual projections ensuring consistency, accuracy as well as produce concise, coherent and harmonised analysis on multiple topics with state-of-the-art visualisation for decision-making bodies,
3. contribute to the analytical work of the Division relating to the banking supervision fee framework, the preparation of financial reports, dashboards and forecasts, and the processing and analysis of financial/budgetary data and headcount allocation (using tools such as MS Excel, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW, Mendix or Tableau);
4. provide analytical support and advice for the Division’s interactions with other business areas regarding the efficient and effective use of resources, ensuring alignment with the policies in place;
5. prepare, monitor and report on the salary budget, regularly analysing the salary and benefit expenditures against budget allocations and the headcount developments and preparing deep dives, impact and variance analysis;
6. identify, propose and implement process improvements, advance data analytics and digitalisation initiatives in the context of the Division’s goals and the Directorate’s digitalisation roadmap.
For this role we are seeking candidates who demonstrate the potential for growth, and we will support the selected candidate(s) in their development of the required skills. We value a track record of diverse relevant experience gained through internal or external mobility and/or positions held prior to working at the ECB.The position offers you excellent opportunities to work on a broad range of budgeting and controlling topics, to interact with different stakeholders and to actively share your knowledge within a team to further strengthen its performance. You will be part of a multicultural team that strives for continuous innovation to make a positive impact on the lives of European citizens.
Qualifications, experience and skills
Essential:
7. a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, mathematics, computer science or another relevant field (see for details on degree equivalences);
8. in addition to the above, at least two years of experience in budgeting and controlling, financial and/or financial performance analysis gained in the financial services sector;
9. proven professional experience in complex data analysis and compilation, forecasting, multi-annual projections, data visualisation, both at a high level and in detail for policymakers via dashboards, reports and presentations;
10. proven experience in using corporate activity planning tools, analysing business activities and related resources to translate raw data into information for improving organisational performance;
11. experience in using and digitalising financial processes with SAP, different project and resource management systems, advanced analytical tools (such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Excel and Mendix) to prepare reports, dashboards and financial analysis;
12. an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the
Desired:
13. direct experience of/exposure to systems in the area of budgeting and controlling, especially experience in providing analytical support in budget and headcount planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting, in an international financial institution;
14. an understanding of budget or supervisory fee-related policies and practices as well as public procurement and purchasing processes;
15. hands-on experience including development of tools for data management, data forecasting and financial analysis.
You engage collaboratively with others. You pursue team goals and learn willingly from other people’s diverse perspectives. You signal any need for change by explaining it and proposing alternative solutions. You analyse complex information effectively and can evaluate different views to arrive at solutions. You know and anticipate stakeholder needs.You are motivated to contribute to the ECB’s mission, to serve the citizens of the EU as a member of a public institution and to work with colleagues from all over Europe. You are motivated to be part of our team and to develop and use your skills and competencies to achieve the aims of this position.
Working modalities
We would be happy to discuss a part-time arrangement for this role.