JOB DESCRIPTION

Administrative Assistant to the Director

Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial
Services, and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) of the
European Commission

Selection reference: FISMA/COM/2025/1679
Domain*: Support staff
Where: Directorate FISMA.C – Financial Markets, Brussels
Staff category and Function Group: Temporary agent 2b – Assistant
Grade range: AST1-3
Publication deadline: 17.09.2025 – 12.00 (Brussels time)

WE ARE

The Directorate for financial markets’ policy aims at fostering integrated, efficient and stable
financial markets which serve the European economy in an optimal way, with a high level of
integrity for all trading and post-trading venues and high standards of investor protection. It also
aims at facilitating the development of an internal market for asset management within the EU.
Another objective is to ensure the quality, reliability and availability of public information about
European companies and their securities in a wide range of fields, including in particular financial
and non-financial information in corporate reports.

WE PROPOSE

The Directorate for financial markets seeks to hire an administrative assistant to the Director with
extensive knowledge and expertise of the administrative support to senior management.

We are offering an opportunity to work in a stimulating and highly rewarding work environment,
which has high exposure to senior management and to the Cabinet and the Commissioner. The
selected candidate will provide administrative and organisational support to the Director, including
agenda and mission management, and help with various administrative and coordination activities,
such as briefing attribution, planning and managing the Directorate’s human and financial
resources, ensuring the circulation of documents, as well as document management. The
successful candidate will work closely with other administrative staff in the Directorate. The post
will involve contacts with other services of DG FISMA and the Commission, as well as with the
Cabinet of the Commissioner and external actors

(Selection reference FISMA/COM/2025/1679)

WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for a candidate with at least 12 years of relevant proven professional experience in
the administrative support. Administrative support to senior management will be considered a
strong asset.

The ideal profile for the job is an enthusiastic, proactive and highly motivated professional
assistant who is flexible, has excellent organizational and prioritizing skills and is able to take on a
variety of organizational, secretarial and administrative tasks.

Practical knowledge of the Commission’s budgetary rules and administrative procedures, as well as
a sound knowledge of standard Commission tools (Ares, Basis, MIPS, Sysper, Decide, etc.) and MS
Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) will be an advantage.

He/she should be a good, dynamic and helpful team player, who works well with different
colleagues, while showing discretion when dealing with confidential matters. The main working
language is English.

HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST?

You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:
1. your CV
Please send these documents by the publication deadline to [email protected]
indicating the selection reference FISMA/COM/2025/1679 in the subject.

2. completed application form.

No applications will be accepted after the publication deadline.