Finance & Accounting Manager

**Job Information**:
Work Experience
- 1-3 years

Industry
- Financial Services

Contact Number
- 352 28 81 68 11

City
- Luxembourg

Country
- Luxembourg

Province
- Luxembourg (fr)

Postal Code
- L-1111

FINANCE & ACCOUNTING MANAGER

**Essential Job Functions**
- Accurate and timely production of monthly management accounts including P&L, balance sheet, cashflow statement and analysis against budget
- Manage all purchase ledger, sales ledger and general ledger functions
- Ensure the Finance Department is compliant with the Company’s operating rules, policies and procedures

**Duties**
- Maintenance of the general ledger, including posting of journals, prepayments, accruals, payroll & interest journals
- Review of purchase invoices to ensure correct posting
- Maintenance of fixed asset registers and depreciation
- Weekly cash book reconciliations, ensuring any discrepancies resolved
- Maintain lease database and ensure sales invoices are raised in a timely manner
- Processing and payment of monthly employee expense claims, and processing of company credit card statements
- Production of VAT and other tax returns, and submission to the tax authority or provide accurate information in a timely manner so fiduciaries can prepare submissions. Review submissions and resolve any queries.
- Assistance with Corporation Tax (incl. Capital Allowances) computations, and liaison with company’s Corporation Tax advisors
- Lead, develop and motivate all direct reports. Identify training requirements and mentor team members
- Monitor cash balances and ensure immediate funding requests are submitted on a timely basis
- Authorise weekly payment runs. Regularly review creditors ledger to ensure all queries resolved and invoices paid within payment terms
- Monitor and analyze results against budgets and explain variances to support production of the monthly consolidated management accounts and identify risks
- Build key relationships with the senior stakeholders and the wider commercial teams
- Support the operational and commercial teams providing key insight to improve on performance
- Ensure the Finance function is equipped with adequate and suitably qualified resources to ensure compliance with relevant corporate regulatory requirements
- Support the preparation/ production of the Company’s monthly payroll processes
- Assist with the company’s annual accounts preparation and audit processes with external providers
- Support the maintenance of an appropriate internal financial controls and risk management processes
- Provide financial information required to secure debt facilities. Prepare quarterly covenant calculations
- Work with the FP&A team to support budgeting, forecasting and cashflow requirements
- Ensure PR/PO’s are correctly authorised.
- Work with the operational teams to ensure spend is controlled
- Support the business with adhoc requests for financial planning and analysis
- Ensure the Company’s internal financial control systems, processes and policies are complied with by all parts of the Company’s operations, including supply chain management, purchasing controls, payment authorizations

**Profile**:** Job Requirements**
- **
Degree in Finance or professional qualification, strongly preferred**
- ** 5 to 10 years of experience in related field and similar functions**
- ** Fluency in French and English essential.**
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail are crucial
- Experience in dealing with customer issues and problem solve
- Able to plan, organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to communicate internally with team members as well as externally with vendors and other service providers.
- Assertive and confident with a high level of personal and professional credibility
- Excellent planning and organisation skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities and meet tight deadlines
- Assertive and confident and able to quickly build a high level of personal and professional credibility within the business and customer base
- Ability to lead and engage people in a fast-changing environment to achieve results through others
- Experience in managing teams strongly preferred
- Ability to build strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, influencing and negotiating at the most senior levels
- Work effectively in collaboration cross-functionally to achieve shared goals and deliver business objectives

**This is an opportunity to start asap, for a permanent contract