Finance Assistant

NATO offers you more than a job. It gives you a mission: building peace and security for one billion people in Europe and North America. The NATO Communications & Information Agency (NCIA) is leading NATO’s Digital Endeavour. The role of Finance Assistant will and be part of the Business Management team based from Brain l’Alleud, Belgium.

**Who we are**:
NCIA acquire, deploy and defend communications systems for NATO's political decision-makers and Commands; the agency is on the frontlines against cyber-attacks, working closely with governments and industry to prevent future debilitating attacks.

**The role**:
The Finance Assistant will support the Communication Information Systems (CIS) service operations and project management community as well as NCIA internal customers such as the NATO Command Structure, NATO Organizations and Nations. The small and international team works very closely with a huge variety of stakeholders such as logisticians, project managers, buyers, legal advisors, Chief Operations Office staff, as well as interacting with customers.

A key feature of the support provided from this Business Management team is the support to NATO Operations and Missions. The role consists of a combination of organisational, administrative, data, and interpersonal tasks, and will have opportunity to demonstrate flexibility and initiative related to improvements in the work of the Business Management team. The Finance Assistant will have relevant Finance experiences predominantly in the area of financial management, resource planning and budgeting, cost analysis and experience in preparing financial reports.

**What do we offer?**
- Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history
- Initial three year contract with competitive monthly tax-free salary and household & children’s allowances
- Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave
- Excellent private health insurance scheme
- Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays
- Retirement Pension Plan

**About you**:
Able to decide and take action you are comfortable establishing great relationships with customers and peers and able to plan and organise exceptionally well. You deliver results and exceed customer expectations for quality and quantity whilst working in a systematic, methodical and orderly way, consistently achieving project goals. Further to this, you have:

- Higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with 2 years post-related experience. Or a secondary educational qualification with 4 years post-related experience.
- Analytical skills
- Experience in the use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
- Proven ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Proven ability to work under pressure in a complex environment
- Ability to collaboratively work in a team
- Ideally have knowledge of Accounting Standards (IPSAS, IFRS and/or IAS)
- Good understanding of ERP systems and ideally use of Oracle R12
- Knowledge of financial elements and tools of Projects and resources Management
- Ideally knowledge of NATO Financial Regulations, Financial Rules and Procedures, and governance/ regulatory arrangements
- Experience of working in a customer funding environment is highly beneficial
- Experience in documenting/improving business processes would be ideal
- Ideally have knowledge of Acquisition and Logistic procedures
- Support financial analysis, coordinating financial terms and conditions as well as cost estimation and contractual payments milestones of customer agreements

For a full list of duties you can review the full job description here, please note that internally the role is titled ‘Senior Assistant’. To learn more about NCI Agency, our mission and goals take a few moments to visit our website.

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