Senior Officer
About EBRD
67 member countries - finance to new and existing ventures and investment.
Central, Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia
EBRD is owned by about 66 countries as well as the EU and the European Investment bank and is governed by a Board of Directors from the countries and is led by the President currently Sir Suma Chakrabarti.
Project finance, business advice, trade finance, procurement, capital markets and loan syndications
The Office of the Chief Compliance Officer is responsible for procedures of ethical behavior by officials, staff and consultants and investigates any miscounduct. This behavior includes fraud, corruption and negligence and receives all complaints regarding this.Domiciliation - business engagement by bank. Financial agreement to allow automatic collection of payment. Investigate tax contributions made by businesses - safe haven
Key skills/contribution to EBRD
20 year experience in admin field: Including office management, HR, Travel arrangement, travel claims
presentation skills
Numerical skills (working with auditors and as finance manager), managing budgets
Setting up new offices and developing procedures in document filing, induction to staff, IT set up and problem solving running of an office
Excellent Microsoft skills and SAP and willingness to skills e.g. Prezi
Prioritizing
Strengths: Pro-active; structured; hard-working, enthusiastic
Weakness: when nervous speak faster. Trying to overcome this by taking a deep breath and starting again
Attention to detail/Error free work
Go through it again, check spelling errors, read through grammer and punctuation.
Resolving conflict:
Address early
Express views clearly
Active listening to understand fully the views of all involved
Helpful to understand emotions but to try and keep emotions out of discussion
Keep factual
Problem solving
Have structured approach
Define problem
Find possible solutions
Reason to work at EBRD
In line with my ethical values: Integrity, no corruption or fraud, gender equality, climate change and environment
Work for an international organization
Use current skills but learn new skills and develop
Use my current studying
Attitude
Can do
Problem solving
Willing to learn new skills especially technology
Bring experience to adopt to new procedures
EBRD provides loans for new and existing ventures and investing in existing companies and to areas in central and eastern Europe and provides business advisory services to areas in Europe and Asia. These investments promote gender equality, environmentally sound and sustainable development and integrity and compliance to profit countries but ensuring that no corrupt practices are followed. It partners with stakeholders in local and international business and investment.
Stress
Avoid if possible
Good planning
Keep calm
A check list e.g Mr. (ensuring the fullstop is there)
If very important, ask a colleague to check
Go away and comeback and review
Print and check
Check again and again
using Eisenhower strategy of sort tasks depending on urgency and importance but can work late, ask colleagues, speak to manager
Ensure not to cause a bottle neck
Brainstroming
To-do list
Criticism
Listen objectively
If justified then apologies and take on board and improve
If not justified, give reasons and listen for feedback