Financial Engineering Project Officer M/F 77DRP01

Job offer to be filled as an 18-month CDD

Financial Engineering Project Officer for collective projects M/F

Location: Champs-sur-Marne (77) Reference 2026DRP01

Centre Technique Industriel, FCBA is the only Institute in Europe that intervenes at all stages of wood valorization by providing its expertise to all forest owners and managers as well as to companies in wood processing, construction, and furniture.

FCBA, a scientific and technical institute, develops collective actions (research) and private actions (certification, training, consultancy, and testing) for industrial players in the forest, cellulose, wood construction, and furniture sectors.

Its corporate culture is characterized by dynamism, a spirit of initiative, and human relationships.

The Direction de la Recherche et des Programmes - DRP - manages the strategy and the administrative and financial organization of all FCBA's collective actions.

Missions Within the DRP and in close link with FCBA's project teams, you will guarantee the proper administrative and financial construction of collective projects and the large-scale projects led by the institute, as well as their monitoring in accordance with forecasts. You will notably be responsible for:

• Supervising the administrative and financial setups of national and European projects, and more particularly:

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• Identifying eligible expenditure items in advance
• Verifying funding rules
• Controlling and validating financial setups
• Verifying data entry in the document templates to be submitted
• Planning and coordinating the stages of large projects, from the definition of objectives to final delivery
• Ensuring the administrative and financial monitoring of European projects and large projects (financial statements, justifications, invoicing, interface with statutory auditors and European commissioners, monitoring of payments, reminders),
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• Drafting consortium agreements and ensuring contracting with funders and partners
• Ensuring expenditure monitoring and preparing justifications
• Issuing invoices and monitoring the status of payments
• Providing statutory auditors with the justification elements for project expenditures
• Participating in consortium meetings during administrative and financial justification stages
• Ensuring administrative and financial relations between the institute and the partners or funders of collective projects
• Producing balance sheets and reports relating to a project portfolio, filling in dashboards, and preparing reports on collective activities
• Supporting project managers in the use of project management tools.

Profile / Required Skills

With a Bac+5 education (business school, master's in project management), you have 5 to 8 years of successful experience in the setup and budgetary and financial monitoring of projects, within a national and European research context.

You master office tools as well as project management and monitoring tools. Knowledge of European (Horizon Europe, FEDER, etc.) and national funding mechanisms is necessary.

A good command of English is indispensable; the practice of other languages is an asset.

Travel is to be expected to Bordeaux (33) and in Europe.

Qualities

Rigor, sense of organization and analysis, autonomy, interpersonal skills, and team spirit.

You are motivated, we will do the rest! Do not hesitate to join us!

Ref: C192O100734