As Poslovni Dnevnik/Sergej Novosel Vuckovic writes on the 13th of November, 2019, the Financial Agency (Fina) has opened its fourth IT development centre in which IT solutions will be created, from analysis, design, programming and then the testing of the solutions themselves as software products.
Fina’s IT development centres (ITRC) have already been opened in Split, Zabok and Osijek, one in Čakovec has been announced, and their common characteristic is to open and operate where higher education institutions (faculties or colleges) that educate IT profiles are located.
According to the agency, Virovitica is also a well-rounded organisational unit that deals with the creation and support of IT services for targeted users. Fina has already employed five workers in the new premises and plans to continue hiring experienced IT professionals.
These people will be Fina scholarship holders from the Virovitica College of Management in Tourism and Informatics (VŠMTI), and on top of that, Fina is also opening up opportunities for students who will be able to find employment in the Development Centre through student services. That move is also helping to stop Croatia’s worrying brain drain.
“The financial agency is first and foremost a technology company with a very strong IT development team which boasts 280 employees. Fina is one of the four carriers of the state’s digitisation, we’re building our future in these jobs and we need IT staff very much. We’re working with the College of Management in Tourism and Informatics in Virovitica, to show students who are being educated here that they have a place to come and work, that their future workplace is waiting for them, and that they can do their internships here, write their graduate thesis and participate in all of the projects that Fina is engaged in,” said Fina’s Dražen Čović.
“The ultimate goal of all this is the development of modern IT products that meet the needs of the local community and provide employment to the local population, which also makes it a socially responsible business. In Virovitica, we’re probably the largest IT company where more or less all of the students come, and the plan is to have about 20 people here,” added Čović.
Therefore, wherever Fina opens up more ITRCs, local students know where that they can come and knock on the door, especially given the fact that in addition to giving them the opportunity, Fina is also a socially sensitive company, according to Čović.
“We have a collective agreement and we’re a company with a high level of labour rights, we invest in people through education and training is a big thing to us. Stable wages, the payment of overtime, the payment of work done on projects, we provide stimulation for further effort, but everything depends on the person.
What’s important, and the reason why we started talking to students is: We say what we’re doing in terms of development transparently and openly, what jobs we’re doing and what technologies we’re using. If students recognise the value of that, they will contact us because they have a clear path: from personal development within the company, work and relationships with mentors, and knowledge of exactly what the project is all about,” concluded Čović.
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