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 Central Hub Transactional Engine (CHTE), which comprises Accounts Payable, Account Receivable and Employee Travel Expenses with the role based in Brussels, 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.

We are NATO’s technology and cyber leaders, helping NATO Nations to communicate and work together in smarter ways. Our work is challenging and meaningful, and you will develop and apply your expertise as part of a dynamic international team of civilian and military professionals.

The Role

The NCI Agency’s Office of Accounting and Operations is responsible for recording and maintaining of audit trails on events and transactions that have an impact on the organization’s performance, assets, liabilities and net equity. This group exercises control and protects the organisation’s assets at all levels (corporate, business unit, programmes, sector components and customers; including individual projects and services or product lines). The Finance Assistant will have the potential to operate across all three pillars of the CHTE or Accounts Payable, Receivable and Employee Travel Expenses with the role supporting with the transformation and continuous improvement of CHTE within the Agency.

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 YouAble 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 (such as finance/accounts payables, accounts receivable or accounting services) with 4 years post-related experience, or;
• Current experience working within the Finance function ideally within the Accounts Payable, Account Receivable or Travel departments
• Ideally experience in the use of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) or similar ERP finance platform and in particular in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules;
• Current experience in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint;
• Ideally knowledge of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS);
• Proven ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing;
• Proven ability to work under pressure in a complex environment;
• Demonstrable team working and leadership ability.
• Ideally experience of working in a customer funding environment;
• Ideally supported with documenting business processes and identifying, and implementing improvement opportunities;
• Experience in liaising with internal and external mid-level managers (e.g. VIP employees, Project Managers) with the ability to build relationships across business

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.

Primary Location

Belgium-Brussels

NATO Body

NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency)

Schedule

Full-time

Salary (Pay Basis)

3,942.43

Grade

NATO Grade G10