The posting
Your mission
- Taking overall responsibility for accounting operations across teams, ensuring consistent quality, efficiency, and timely delivery, including accounts payable and receivable
- Directing monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes across teams, setting priorities, resolving complex accounting matters, and ensuring compliance with LuxGAAP and IFRS
- Overseeing financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and VAT/tax preparation activities, coordinating priorities and resources across teams
- Taking ownership of financial reporting quality across teams, overseeing the review of financial statements, consolidated accounts, and regulatory filings, and ensuring consistent accounting policies and reporting standards
- Acting as the senior escalation point for internal and external auditors, coordinating complex audit matters and ensuring timely resolution of findings across teams
- Driving cross-team accounting projects and continuous process improvement, including treasury and cash flow management, standardising processes and strengthening operational efficiency
- Leading, coaching, and developing team members, setting objectives and delivery standards, and overseeing capacity planning and resource allocation across accounting
- Ensuring the integrity of financial information and the effectiveness of internal controls, overseeing accounting risks, and partnering with senior management and other stakeholders on priorities, complex issues, and decision-making
Your profile
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, with at least 8 years of relevant experience in a finance or accounting role, preferably in Luxembourg
- Several years of accounting leadership experience, with a proven ability to lead teams and take responsibility for complex accounting processes across teams
- Proven expertise in preparing and reviewing consolidated financial statements under LuxGAAP, with a sound understanding of IFRS and the ability to provide technical guidance on complex accounting matters
- Strong knowledge of Luxembourg accounting standards, financial regulations, tax requirements, and compliance obligations
- Strong leadership, organisational, and decision-making skills, with the ability to develop team members, delegate operational responsibility, and hold teams accountable for shared objectives and results
- Ability to translate business priorities into cross-team plans, balance resources and competing demands, and deliver complex assignments to high quality standards within strict transaction deadlines
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advise senior management, build relationships with clients and auditors, and resolve escalated issues confidently
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a proactive and solution-oriented mindset, and fluency in German and English, both written and spoken
What you can expect
- Modern office in the financial district Kirchberg in Luxembourg
- Harmonious and stable working environment
- Good work-life-balance and flexible working hours
- Training for your individual career development
- 30 days of vacation and meal vouchers
- Reimbursement of public transport costs
- Supplementary health insurance
- Parking facilities for rent (within walking distance)
Please note that, in accordance with Luxembourgish law and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a criminal record certificate (extrait du casier judiciaire) may be requested during the recruitment process. This request will be made solely for roles where such documentation is deemed necessary and permitted by applicable Luxembourgish regulations. The processing of this document will fully comply with GDPR and Luxembourg's national data protection laws.
About us
AVEGA is a full-service provider based in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Our in-depth extensive experience enables us to promptly provide our clients with both Luxembourgish and international structures in order to maximize the value and effectiveness of their business.
Our services are provided to our client's enterprises in Luxembourg from incorporation through to the end of the entities life cycle and we are always keen to provide our clients with solution-oriented, flexible assistance. Our many years of working with our clients international corporate structures have given us invaluable experience in carrying out large cross border style transactions. Our clients include well-known international private equity investors, established groups in the retail, media, health, telecommunications and other service sectors, as well as a number of manufacturing industries. The operational companies of our clients are based in a wide range of countries including Australia, China, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore and the USA.
AVEGA is autonomous and independent. On this basis, we work together with all major auditing firms, banks and law firms in Luxembourg for the benefit of our clients.
