A government organization is looking for a Strategic Advisor Corporate Finance for temporary support and advice at the corporate level within the Finance and Control department. The organization faces significant societal tasks and financial challenges, which require sharp financial steering, an integral consideration of interests, and insight into financial and administrative risks.
The professional makes an independent contribution to financial advice at a strategic level and supports the organization in developing, assessing, and managing financially sound plans, projects, and programs. The focus is on the planning and control cycle, strategic financial issues, treasury, risk management, and translating national developments into the organization's financial position and policy choices.
The assignment aims to strengthen the quality of financial advice, make financial scenarios and risks transparent, and realize concrete improvements in financial steering and control.
What you will do.
- Analyze and assess planning and control instruments (P&C) and advise on their financial quality, coherence, and feasibility.
- Coordinate the substantive and procedural alignment of P&C products.
- Advise the board, college, and management on strategic financial issues, complex dossiers, and administratively sensitive tasks.
- Translate administrative ambitions, strategic policy, and societal tasks into financial scenarios, policy proposals, and integral considerations.
- Analyze and monitor the development of general resources and the general reserve and advise on these.
- Advise on and carry out activities in the field of treasury, including attracting and placing loans and assessing applications for guarantees.
- Prepare and substantively support the treasury committee and perform associated secretarial duties.
- Identify, analyze, and manage financial and political risks and advise on appropriate control measures.
- Further develop financial risk management towards integrated risk management.
- Monitor and analyze national developments and translate their consequences into the organization's financial position.
- Identify improvement opportunities within the financial function and elaborate proposals for improving processes, instruments, and advice.
- Maintain relevant internal and external contacts and promote the exchange of knowledge and expertise.
Profile
As a strategic advisor in corporate finance, you advise at the corporate level on financial issues and support the organization in developing, assessing, and managing financially sound plans, projects, and programs. You contribute to sharp financial steering, integral considerations, and insight into financial and administrative risks. You focus, among other things, on the planning and control cycle, strategic financial issues, treasury, and risk management.
You also translate national developments into the organization's financial position and policy choices. You collaborate with relevant officials within the financial column and with employees from various domains. In this assignment, you connect financial issues with societal and organizational developments and take administrative relationships into account.
What they ask
- Demonstrably completed relevant education at a minimum of WO (university) level.
- Demonstrable extensive knowledge and experience with public finances.
- Demonstrable experience with strategic financial advice within a public organization.
- Demonstrable experience with the planning and control cycle and municipal financial instruments.
- Demonstrable experience with financial risk analyses and advising on complex financial issues.
- The candidate must have their own ICT resources if required for the execution of the assignment and if allowed within the client's security and ICT frameworks.
- Candidate agrees to the stated secondment conditions.
Wishes.
- Demonstrable experience with strategic financial advice to the board, college, and management within a public organization.
- Demonstrable experience with the municipal planning and control cycle, including advice on budget, management reports, and annual accounts.
- Demonstrable experience with treasury, municipal financing issues, and the management of general resources and reserves.
- Demonstrable experience with financial risk management and the development of integrated risk management.
- Demonstrable experience with analyzing national financial developments and translating them into municipal policy and financial consequences.
- Demonstrable experience with coordinating financial processes and realizing improvements in financial advice and steering.
- Strong advisory skills, administrative sensitivity, and the ability to present complex financial information understandably to non-financial stakeholders.
Competencies.
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong strategic skills
- Administratively sensitive
- Environmentally aware
- Persuasive in advice
- Clear in advice
- Proactive
- Results-oriented
- Independent
- Initiative-rich
- Organizationally sensitive
- Connecting
- Meticulous
- Focused on risk management
- Strong in planning
- Strong in organizing
- Strong in prioritizing
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