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As one of three departments within the Directorate Financial Planning, Budget and Reporting, Management Reporting is responsible for measuring Office-wide financial performance, elaborating suitable cost information, improving cost awareness and training managers, as well as for the dynamic evolution of its reporting facilities and tools.

In the role of financial analyst, you will be the key link between the Principal Directorate (PD) Finance and the business units. You will be responsible for improving financial awareness among business unit managers to increase accountability, and for delivering business insights to PD Finance to improve the quality of financial outputs.

Your main responsibilities

• Corporate reporting: delivering financial reports for the President and the supervisory bodies, e.g. the monthly report;
• Supporting PD Finance in defining financial and operational KPIs with financial impacts and communicating these KPIs to the business units;
• Management reporting: monitoring performance and enforcing KPIs by analysing and challenging results (e.g. plan vs. actual, financial targets and business targets with financial impacts;
• Delivering input for PD Finance on reporting (e.g. accruals);
• Helping the business units prepare their plans based on actuals.
   

What we expect from you

• A university degree in finance or business administration;
• At least five years of experience in management reporting, ideally in a large private organisation and/or international environment;
• Ability to work analytically and conceptually, ability to prepare clear and comprehensive documents for management decisions;
• Ability to apply different reporting standards such as IFRS and public accounting;
• Strong communication skills, fostering transparency and clear understanding with the ability to operate at different levels within the Office;
• Highest level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive/confidential information.
   

Your qualifications

• Diploma of completed studies at master’s level or ‑ in exceptional cases ‑ equivalent professional experience;
• Excellent knowledge of one official language (English, French or German) and ability to understand the other two;
• Citizenship of one of the member states of the European Patent Organisation.
   

Time frame

It is intended to hold the interviews in week 50 in Munich.

* after deduction of EPO internal tax and before deduction of staff contributions to the social-security and pension schemes. The salary level depends on experience.

What we offer

• Intellectual challenges and empowerment through professional development;
• The chance to work with inspiring people from various different cultures;
• An excellent social package;
• Contributory medical-insurance and pension schemes;
• Relocation benefits and various allowances (e.g. household, dependants’, childcare, education, expatriation, installation and rent allowance), depending on their personal circumstances.

To foster gender diversity, EPO encourages applications from female candidates.

The EPO is an equal opportunities employer and supports workforce diversity as a signatory to the Diversity Charter (Charta der Vielfalt) since 2010.
All applications for vacant positions will be welcomed and considered on the professional merits of the applicant against the role profile for the position regardless of nationality, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion or belief.