Control Specialist (Reserve list)

As Control Specialist, you will join the Business Unit of the Directorate and will be assigned to Directorate teams, ensuring close engagement and responsiveness. You will report hierarchically to the Business Unit Controller through your line management. You will ensure data consolidation, data quality and reporting at the appropriate level. You will be key to implementing processes by authorising transactions and making commitments, making operational choices that best serve the interests of the Directorate, maintaining independence to avoid conflicts of interest and contributing the know-how required to preserve business continuity. Your tasks may include: contributing to the end-to-end management of activities, including the preparation, implementation, monitoring and analysis of resource and activity plans (short, medium and long term), comprising commitments, budgets, costs, cash, geo-return, risks, schedules and workforce; performing delegated control and approval functions in compliance with the Agency's rules, regulations, standards and best practices, including the acceptance of deliverables; preparing and monitoring procurements, from tendering to closure of contracts for management, financial, planning, controlling and industrial return, including participating in all tasks related to the placing of contracts, as well as negotiations with industry and/or institutional stakeholders within your area of responsibility; monitoring the implementation of activities in accordance with the applicable control procedures, industrial policy rules and best practices, including tracking progress, identifying deviations from plans and providing regular reporting; maintaining and verifying the budgetary data of your assigned area of responsibility; implementing mid- and end-of-year financial closure exercises; identifying risks in your own areas of responsibility; preparing inputs for the financial implementation of the Directorate's analysis centres and monitoring the resulting manpower rate; monitoring and controlling activities performed via Directorate SLAs; managing issues arising, involving direct interaction with counterparts, including industrial and ESA internal stakeholders; implementing the external workforce framework contracts; contributing to operational excellence and to continuous improvement in your area of responsibility, including the evolution of tools, dashboards, processes and use of best practices.