Project Associate (Banking and Financial Services)

QUALIFICATIONS
•     1-2 years of administrative experience in a professional services environment, with relevant EC project administration experience preferred;
•     Demonstrated ability to develop and monitor activity budgets;
•     Experience using MS Excel to track, display and analyze financial data;
•     Excellent administrative and organizational skills;
•     A team player who can work independently and with minimal guidance, but who also excels at consulting and coordinating with the project management team;
•     Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines;
•     Keen attention to detail;
•     Ability to provide effective follow-up on individual activities in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment;
•     Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills;
•     International experience desirable;
•     B.A./B.S. degree required;
•     Fluency in foreign language, English or French preferred; and
•     Working knowledge of MS Office

Job Opportunity Description

We are a consulting firm providing solutions to IFIs, and we are currently recruiting for the following full-time position. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Specific Responsibilities:
•     Administer a Bucharest-based research projects and up to 2 in-country development projects;
•     Track labor details for research projects against workplans and budgets;
•     Coordinate provision of services from headquarters support offices (Finance, Contracts, and Human Resources) to projects;
•     Monitor and facilitate compliance of Contract actions (reports, contract modifications, extensions, add-ons);
•     Develop project activity budgets, revenue projects, subcontract drafts, subcontractor budgets, and project pipelines;
•     Troubleshoot contract billing issues;
•     Recruit, mobilize, and demobilize short-term consultants and long-term project staff;
•     Assist in tracking project expenditures and profitability;
•     Make travel arrangements, process travel vouchers, audit subcontractor invoices, and perform other administrative tasks;
•     Process internal project administrative backstopping documents (for example, but not limited to, Independent Consultant Agreements, Travel Vouchers, Check Requests, etc.);
•     Assist in project start-up and close-down activities as assigned;
•     Contribute to proposals;
•     Write and edit project descriptions and marketing materials;
•     Plan workshops, conferences and other events with clients, subcontractors and partners;
•     Some international travel may be required;
•     Troubleshoot problems and propose creative solutions to project management problems;
•     Other duties as assigned.