Financial Adviser - European Health and Digital Executive Agency (FGIV, Brussels)

About this position

The summary below is published by European Health and Digital Executive Agency on the official vacancy notice. Our own analysis — salary realism, comparable openings, career trajectory, language profile — follows further down the page.

Key responsibilities

According to the vacancy notice, the role centres on the following duties:

• Report on and monitor commitments, expenditure and recoveries through corporate IT tools
• Lead assignments linked to financial/legal procedures, note drafting, process and team organisation, audit implementation, budget reporting, accounting, data mining and reporting
• Provide advice and support to hierarchy and staff, and training at Sector, Unit and Agency level
• Ensure financial transactions are correct and in conformity with grant agreements or contracts and applicable regulatory framework
• Verify project expenditure and provide reasonable assurance that claimed costs comply with contractual requirements
• Give visa as Financial Initiator/Financial Verificator in SUMMA or as Support Officer/FVA in eGrants/eProcurement/eExpert workflows
• Participate in and coordinate accounting quality checks and exercises
• Analyse financial capacity of applicants/tenderers and provide advice on financial capacity assessment

Are you eligible?

Check these requirements from the notice before investing time in an application:

• Education: Completed university studies of at least three years attested by a diploma
• Experience: At least 2 years of professional experience relevant to financial, contractual and/or legal management of grant and/or tender programmes (publicly or privately funded)
• Languages: One EU language (C1), Another EU language (B2), English (C1)
• Key skills: Very good oral and written command of English
• Eligibility: National of a member state of the European Union; entitled to full rights as a citizen; fulfilled obligations imposed by applicable laws concerning military service; meet appropriate character requirements; physically fit to perform duties; have successfully passed an EPSO CAST test for contract agents valid for Executive Agencies in function group IV or completed and validated the online applica…

Contract and working arrangements

Hiring unit: HaDEA Unit C.1 - Operational Finance.

Position details

Reference

HaDEA-EXT/IV/2026/12

Vacancy Notice

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Last Verified

21 September 2026

Position overview

This is the official EU Careers listing for Financial Adviser at HADEA based in Brussels at the FGIV grade level (Contract Agent). The vacancy reference is HaDEA-EXT/IV/2026/12. The role falls under the Budget And Finances domain.

About us

The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) was established by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/173 of 12 February 2021. Located in Brussels, the Agency comprises 3 departments and 10 units. Our colleagues are international experts and specialists in matters related to health, food, digital, industry, space, communication and finance.

We currently manage the following programmes on behalf of the European Commission:

- EU4Health programme; - Horizon Europe: Pillar II, Cluster 1: Health; - Single Market Programme: Food safety: health for humans, animals and plants along the food chain and better training for safer food; - Digital Europe Programme; - Connecting Europe Facility: Digital; - Horizon Europe: Pillar II, Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space.

The Agency reports to six Directorates-General of the European Commission – Health and Food Safety (SANTE), Research and Innovation (RTD), Communication Networks, Content and Technologies (CNECT), Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS), Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW) and Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (HERA) – which remain responsible for programming and evaluation.

For more information on HaDEA, please visit https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/index_en.

Why join us?

Working in the Agency will put you at the heart of the European Commission’s ambition to build a healthier, more digital, resilient and better prepared Europe.

The Agency has a workplace culture of staff empowerment and engagement. A culture of listening to staff, working collaboratively with respect and trust on a common vision of purpose and success. Staff engagement as a top priority, opportunities to provide meaningful feedback and share ideas, teamwork, open communication and room for innovation are common markers of HaDEA’s culture.

The staff of HaDEA is committed to the seven values defined through a participatory process: client orientation, excellence, fairness, integrity, transparency, trust and work-life balance.

HaDEA is a workplace in which employees feel proud to belong. The Agency facilitates a working environment where staff are encouraged to keep their skills up to date and develop additional competencies. Several wellbeing initiatives in the areas of physical, mental and organisational health are aimed at supporting staff to improve their resilience to cope with the demands of a world in constant change.

HaDEA has an on-boarding programme to support staff arrivals to the Agency. The People sector (HR), the respective teams, line managers and buddies (experienced colleagues assigned to support new staff) will help newcomers to easily integrate and settle in. We look forward to welcoming you to HaDEA.

Job description

Overall purpose

The mission of HaDEA Unit C.1 - Operational Finance is to support the operational units and external stakeholders through the financial management of actions implemented by HaDEA throughout their lifecycle. We ensure optimal allocation of versatile resources while bringing innovation and sharing expertise so that, together, we enable HaDEA to successfully fulfil its mandate.

We are a large unit, organised in four programme-specific sectors with cross-unit teams, with a current 2026 allocation of 96 staff members.

Unit C.1 and its sectors have an excellent team spirit and are eager to welcome colleagues that seek challenging, yet very rewarding work environment. We are looking for enthusiastic, service-oriented, experienced, talented colleagues with specialised skills in financial management of complex grant and procurement actions, with particular emphasis on budget, accounting, reporting and audit implementation.

Functions and duties

BUDGET, FINANCE, CONTRACTS and ACCOUNTING

- To report on and to ensure monitoring of commitments, expenditure and recoveries, and to monitor accounting data quality exercises through corporate IT tools (SUMMA/eGrants/other local systems), where relevant. - To lead assignments linked to the financial/legal procedures and note drafting, process and team organisation and monitoring, audit implementation, budget reporting, accounting, data mining and reporting. - To provide advice and support to both hierarchy and staff, as well as training at the Sector, Unit and Agency level. - To ensure that the relevant financial transactions (commitments, invoices and payments, recovery orders, forecast of revenue, de-commitments or guarantee fund interventions, where relevant), including documentation and data, are financially correct and in conformity with the grant agreement or contract and the applicable regulatory framework. - To verify project expenditure as reported in cost statements and provide reasonable assurance that claimed costs comply with the contractual requirements. - To give visa as a Financial Initiator/Financial Verificator in SUMMA, where relevant, and/or as a Support Officer/FVA in eGrants/eProcurement/eExpert workflows. - To participate in and coordinate accounting quality checks and exercises, including contribution to the preparation of the "cut off" procedure. - To analyse financial capacity of applicants/tenderers and provide advice on financial capacity assessment, where applicable. - To contribute to the collection of the necessary information for audit and control by the Agency, Commission’s services or the European Court of Auditors. - To ensure implementation of the audit findings and analyse financial aspects of control and audit reports of the Agency, Commission services, the European Court of Auditors and Member States (where applicable). - To prepare and/or verify recovery, enforced recovery and waiver files. - To regularly review legal instruments and methodology in the financial domain. To prepare financial procedures and to keep them up to date. - To ensure collaboration with colleagues and services in order to develop and implement harmonised procedures, norms and methods to process and access financial information and documents. - To provide advice and technical support to staff, as well as to external stakeholders, at the different steps of the lifecycle of an action (selection, GAP / contract preparation, amendment and closing of grant agreements, commitments, payments, ex-post audit implementation, recoveries) in order to solve specific financial issues as well as to ensure financial viability. - To participate in the periodic monitoring and approval of internal procedures/good practices. - To provide ‘on the spot’ training to staff responsible for financial initiation. - To coordinate other horizontal tasks (such as reporting, audit liaison, budget correspondent, internal control, anti-fraud, pre-litigation support functions, as well as other specific tasks or team coordination tasks). - To produce reports on financial, budget or grant management issues using corporate tools. - To extract and provide information, data or statistics on financial/contractual aspects of the actions managed by the granting authority. - To reply to information requests from the hierarchy and other services. - To contribute to reports or replies to information requests from other departments within the Agency, Commission’s services, authorities of the Member States and the general public on budget, finance and contractual matters.

Professional qualifications and other requirements

A. Eligibility criteria[1]

Candidates will be considered eligible for selection based on the following criteria to be fulfilled by the deadline for applications:

1. Have successfully passed an EPSO CAST tests for contract agents valid for Executive Agencies[2] in the function group of the present call for expression of interest; Candidates without a valid EPSO CAST at the time of submitting their application can still apply for this call for expression of interest if they have completed and validated[3] the online application form of the Call for Expressions of Interest in function group IV launched by EPSO[4]. These candidates, if pre-selected, will be invited by EPSO to sit a series of computer-based multiple-choice question (MCQ) tests during the testing window corresponding to the present call for expression of interest[5]. Only candidates who have successfully passed these tests will be considered eligible for this selection.

2. Have a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies of at least three years attested by a diploma[6]; 3. Thorough knowledge (level C1 in all dimensions as per the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages or CEFRL[7]) of one of the languages of the European Union and a satisfactory knowledge (level B2 in all dimensions as per the CEFRL) of another EU language to the extent necessary for the performance of the duties. 4. Be a national of a member state of the European Union. 5. Be entitled to full rights as a citizen. 6. Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws concerning military service. 7. Meet the appropriate character requirements as to the candidate’s suitability for the performance of the duties involved in this Vacancy notice. 8. Be physically fit to perform the duties linked to the post[8].

Please note that only candidates that comply with all the eligibility criteria will be considered for further steps of the selection procedure.

B. Selection criteria

Essential

1. After obtaining qualifications mentioned in section 3.A.2, candidates must have acquired at least 2 years of professional experience relevant to the tasks described in section 2. Job Description[9], in particular financial, contractual and/or legal management of grant and/or tender programmes (publicly or privately funded).

2. Very good oral and written command of English with spoken and written skills equivalent to level C1 or higher level for working purposes (very good, excellent, fluent, advanced, proficient, native, or similar).

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Salary at this grade

Basic monthly salary at FGIV runs from €4,449 (step 1) to €5,034 (top step), giving an annual range of roughly €53,388 to €60,408 before tax and allowances. Steps increase automatically every two years; the figures here are taken from the salary grid in the EU Staff Regulations.

Eligible staff posted away from their country of nationality also receive an expatriation allowance worth 16% of basic salary (around €712 per month at step 1 of FGIV) together with household, dependent-child, and education allowances where applicable. Take-home pay is then adjusted by the country correction coefficient for Brussels. For a worked example see our correction coefficients guide and the EU salaries overview.

Application timeline

This vacancy was first listed on 21 September 2026, today.

The application deadline is 12 October 2026, 19 days from today. Late applications are not accepted, so submit through the official EU Careers portal well in advance.

Last verified against the EU Careers feed on 21 September 2026.

Where to learn more

For full responsibilities, requirements, and career progression at FGIV see our FGIV grade page; for headcount, mission, and other open vacancies at HADEA see the HADEA institution page; for the cost of living, correction coefficient, and other postings in Brussels see our Brussels location page; for related vacancies in the Budget And Finances field browse our Budget And Finances domain page.

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