JOB DESCRIPTION

WE ARE

The Commission’s Directorate-General for Budget (DG BUDG) is the horizontal Commission service in charge of all budgetary matters, making sure the EU has the resources to deliver on its political priorities. In this role, DG BUDG is central to the policy-making process and interacts daily with all Commission services and with the wider financial community. Its main responsibilities include negotiating and implementing the multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the annual budgets, managing the annual budget cycle, overseeing the revenue and expenditure side of the budget, executing all payments, ensuring the respect of financial rules and the protection of the EU’s financial interests, supervising the system of controls and reporting on the EU budget. The DG is also in charge of the management of the borrowing and lending operations funded from the capital markets. In addition, DG BUDG is the domain leader for financial management and is in charge of the corporate financial IT system. DG BUDG is structured in 7 Directorates. It has around 500 staff based in Brussels and in Luxembourg.

The mission of the unit is two-fold: 1) to develop the EU budget revenue policy in line with EU policy priorities and developments on the expenditure side of the EU budget, and 2) to manage the bulk of the revenues of the EU budget, including calling and managing Member States’ own resources payments and calculating interest on late payment of own resources.

The unit is responsible for the analytical and conceptual work on EU budget revenue including new own resources, and revenue forecasts for the budget. It oversees the Own Resources Decision and its implementing Regulations, which includes the inter-service coordination on legislative proposals as well as the inter-institutional negotiations. Furthermore, the unit serves as an in-house think tank to explore reform options in the context of EU budget and fiscal policies, tax-sharing arrangements between the Union and Member States and macro-economic aspects of the revenue side of the EU budget.

The unit is also in charge of revenue management as it is responsible for the Own Resources making available and implementing legislation. This includes preparing the revenue side of the EU budget, calling and managing Member States’ own resources payments for the financing of the EU budget, calling the EEA-EFTA contributions,

calculates interest on late payment of own resources. Lastly, the unit oversees the practical application of the Protocol of Privileges and Immunities and acts as the Commission’s central service for VAT reimbursement requests addressed to Member States.

WE PROPOSE

We offer an interesting position of Economic Analyst in the Revenue policy sector of BUDG.B3, feeding directly into the unit’s work (analyses, negotiations) on own resources for the EU budget.

WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a proven capacity to prioritise and organize work and with a strong sense of responsibility. He/she should be able to independently perform economic and budgetary analyses, work pro-actively with a sense of initiative and responsibility and be quickly operational. The Economic Analyst will report to the Head of Unit/Deputy Head of Unit/Head of Sector and support them in their work. He/she should have excellent written and oral communication skills in English.

More specifically, the successful candidate should:

• Have previous experience in policy/economic analysis. A degree in economics would be a strong asset.

Knowledge of EU budget policies would be an advantage, as would experience in macroeconomic analysis, data       manipulation                                                        and                                                                 modelling.

• Have a very good understanding of the new own resources proposed by the Commission and the ability to provide accurate policy input to relevant discussions, often under time pressure. Sectoral-level knowledge relevant for individual (new) own resources would be an asset.
• Have a thorough knowledge of the EU budget/the Multiannual Financial Framework, in particular its revenue

Have excellent inter-personal skills, be able to efficiently deliver both independently and within a team,

• including by cooperating with other services and institutions.
• Have an excellent knowledge of Excel. Knowledge of statistical programs such as Stata and E-Views would be considered an asset.
• Have an excellent knowledge of English, in oral and written. Knowledge of additional EU languages would be considered an asset.

HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST?

You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:

1. your CV 2. completed application form.

Please send these documents by the publication deadline to [email protected] indicating the selection reference BUDG/C0M/2025/1746 in the subject.