Senior Economist-statisticians

**General Information**

**Contract end date** 30.06.2025

**Who can apply?** EU nationals working for national central banks of the ESCB, international governmental organisations or other employers performing central banking or banking supervision tasks.

**Salary** F/G (bracket 2 - step 1) full time monthly net salary: €7,267 plus benefits, for further information see what we offer.

**Working time** Full time

**Place of work** Frankfurt am Main, Germany

**Closing date** 16.04.2023

**Your team**
- You will be part of the IReF Programme Office in the Directorate General Statistics. Our Directorate, which has over 300 members of staff, develops and manages datasets to support the tasks of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and of ECB Banking Supervision. In December 2021 the Governing Council of the ECB launched the Integrated Reporting Framework (IReF) Programme, which aims to fully overhaul the statistical value chain for bank reporting in the ESCB. Following a non-IT design phase, the IReF Programme will enter an investigation phase in June 2023, which will involve assessing and developing all elements that represent a precondition for implementing the new framework.

In your role as a Senior Economist-Statistician, you will contribute to the investigation phase as part of the IReF Programme Office. This team has around 45 members of staff and is responsible for developing the IReF product (i.e. the legal framework, the representation model and the implementation model (including the dictionary)) and the business organisation framework that the Eurosystem will adopt under the IReF, as well as carrying out associated communication and organisational tasks. The team is also responsible for developing the business IT requirements for the ESCB/SSM common data management (CDM) programme, which is conducted in parallel to develop a common ESCB/SSM Data Management and the respective IT architecture. The IReF represents the first use case of the CDM. You will find more about the IReF on the ECB’s website.

**Your role**
- As a Senior Economist-Statistician in the IReF Programme Office you will:

- contribute to the activities of the Programme Office as outlined above, drawing on your experience with national central banks to aid the team;
- help prepare meetings and working groups on European integrated reporting, such as the Statistics Committee’s Working Group on Integrated Reporting and Data Dictionary;
- contribute to multiple projects and initiatives both inside and outside the ESCB regarding data integration (e.g. BIRD, the CDM programme and wider European efforts across the statistical, prudential and resolution domains);
- engage constructively with the banking industry and other stakeholders, including national central banks and other ECB business areas, to ensure wide acceptance of the IReF;
- support your line management in the preparation and communication of complex topics for internal and external audiences.

This position offers you an excellent opportunity to contribute to one of the most significant projects ever undertaken in the area of ESCB statistics and to ensure that the ESCB’s statistics function is fit to face future challenges arising from financial innovation and digitalisation. In particular, you will support the analysis and decision-making process through the integration of ECB datasets, reduce the burden on reporting agents and cooperate directly with national central banks and other stakeholders in the banking industry. You will be part of a multicultural team that strives for continuous innovation to make a positive impact on the lives of European citizens.

**Qualifications, experience and skills**
- Essential:

- a master’s degree or equivalent in statistics, data science, mathematics, economics, physics, engineering or another relevant field (see How you can join us for details on degree equivalences);
- at least seven years’ experience in statistics, economic analysis, financial markets, IT or equivalent areas;
- knowledge of the ECB statistical regulations and guidelines (including those referring to external statistics and financial accounts) and the national reporting frameworks implementing these requirements, including the practical modalities of the collections (i.e. derogation schemes, revision policies);
- proven project management experience;
- good communication and drafting skills;
- experience of collaboration with internal and external teams;
- an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Desired:

- experience in data integration and the creation of integrated reporting solutions;
- experience in data modelling and dictionaries and a good knowledge of the Data Point Model refit;
- experience in developing or maintaining business processes supporting statistical data management (collection, DQM,