Työnimike: Financial Controller

Työnkuvaus:
The Regional Council of Southwest Finland is recruiting staff to the Joint Secretariat of the Central Baltic Programme 2014-2020. The programme area includes regions from Estonia, Finland incl. Åland, Latvia and Sweden and the programme funds cross-border cooperation between partners from these countries. The programme supports projects in four priorities: competitive economy, sustainable use of common resources, well connected region, skilled and socially inclusive region. The funding that the programme allocates to projects comes from the EU's European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The total ERDF budget of the programme is 122 MEUR. The Regional Council of Southwest Finland is now looking for members of staff to support in the implementation of the programme. The programme currently has 17 members of staff. The programme strives for international staff and a balanced knowledge of all programme languages and cultural backgrounds within the whole team. To complement the current team a good command of Swedish and good understanding of Swedish society is seen as an advantage for the applicants. The task requires an understanding of EU funding instruments and especially the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) or, specifically, European Territorial Cooperation (ETC). Financial Controller The main tasks will consist of tasks defined in EU regulations as tasks of the Certifying Authority as well as tasks defined by the programme: Financial monitoring and certification of project's payment claims/financial reports and preparation of ERDF payments to the Lead Partners of the projects. Preparation of reports and statistics including payment claims (ERDF) and annual reporting to the European Commission. Contributing to the overall development and maintenance of control and management system of the Programme. Contributing to the co-operation between MA/JTS and organisations responsible for national First Level Control (FLC). Coordination of the work of the Financial officers in handling project payment claims. Communicating and sharing information with stakeholders. Contributing to the preparation of necessary documents and materials for the Managing Authority, Member States and other stakeholders. Specifically, the task will consist of the following: Ensuring that the Joint Secretariat has conducted its assessments adequately. Ensuring that expenditure complies with applicable Community, national and programme level rules checked by the First Level Controllers. Arithmetic checks, including records of amounts recoverable, amounts recovered and amounts withdrawn from payment applications. Drawing up accounts on the expenditure that was incurred in accordance with EU regulations. Taking into account audits carried out by the Second Level Audits or other relevant bodies. Preparing payment requests to the European Commission through the SFC2014 database. Contributing with information to different programme bodies. Supporting the decisions of the Monitoring Committee regarding programme level financial issues. Participating in and contributing to the guidance and support tools towards funded projects. Requirements: Good administrative skills (understanding of the EU regulatory framework is seen as an asset) and experience in financial controlling and reporting. Experience of the administration of international cooperation (preferably cross-border cooperation). Experience of working in projects is seen as an asset. The ability to lead a team, demonstrated in good team working skills and the ability to make decisions. A pro-active approach and willingness to develop yourself and your work. Very good written and spoken English. Good command of at least one official language of the participating countries. Fluent Finnish is a strong asset. University or Bachelor degree in any suitable field of relevance to the mentioned tasks, e.g. finance, accounting.

Työnantajan nimi: Varsinais-Suomen liitto

Työnantajan osoite: Ratapihankatu 36, 20100 TURKU

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Työn lyhyt kuvaus:
Laskentatoimen erityisasiantuntijat ja tilintarkastajat

Maa: Suomi

Alue: Varsinais-Suomi

Sopimuksen kesto: Tilapäinen

Sopimuslaji: Kokopäiväinen

Lähde työtarjous:
MOL/Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, Julkiset työvoimapalvelut, Suomi