Financial Officer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the financial planning, budgeting, and reporting of EU funded grants
• Supporting EU funded projects in their life cycle from the application phase to the final reporting
• manage ongoing projects’ budgets, including follow‐up of staff and other direct costs
• liaise regularly with project partners and the European Commission on financial aspects related to the projects, including the submission of costs statements
• prepare financial reports and supporting documents for internal and external audits
• review projects administrative and financial documentation (Consortium and Partnership Agreements, Grant Agreements/Amendments, partners financial documentation)
• contribute to the financial and administrative preparations of project proposals
• improve internal financial procedures
• Preparing monthly timesheets together with colleagues; collecting and archiving of evidence for projects as well as administrative and legal documentation.
• Prepare the equipment logbooks used for EU projects.
• Organizational support for activities carried out as part of European Project implementation.
• You will work under the supervision of the Chief Financial Officer.

Your profile:

• Experience in financial management
• Good knowledge of European funding programs and rules

• excellent organizational and planning skills
• Fluent in English, spoken and written
• excellent communication skills
• good interpersonal skills for an international environment
• a problem-solving attitude, attention to detail, initiative and self-motivating

• Autonomous and independent in task accomplishment
• Ability to prioritize and multitask.
• Good ICT skills (Microsoft Office Suite and particularly proficiency with Excel; various online tools e.g. Slack, Google Drive, etc.)

We offer:

A full-time employment position, under Belgian legislation:

• The selected candidate will need to either live in Belgium or be willing to move to Belgium for the duration of the contract (candidates need to provide a Belgian address).
• An open-ended contract, starting as soon as possible
• An attractive monthly salary, according to profile and experience

Benefits:

Meal vouchers, pension plan, hospitalization insurance, public transport costs, end-of-year prime, representation allowance.

Some additional benefit examples are:

• training opportunities and access to on-line trainings
• a dynamic international team
• a pleasant working environment
• Possibility of teleworking 1 day a week.