Accounting Manager

Our client is one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors with a substantial presence in Luxembourg.

The Finance Team is responsible for all financial and accounting services of the Luxembourgish Holding companies belonging to the group. This team is following operations related to each deal of the portfolio (i.e. from the acquisition to the exit) and is coordinating transactions with other internal services (corporate officers, tax colleagues, deal teams, etc) and externals (lawyers, tax advisors, finance team of the deal, etc.)

As part of the Finance Team the Accounting Manager will be in charge of the below responsibilities.

Your responsibilities:

• Preparation of accounting: bookkeeping of cash movement, interests’ computation, accruals, assets value adjustments
• Follow-up of the Management Equity Plan: capital tables, warehousing, restructuring coordination
• Co-ordinating the provision of professional services advisors, including accounting, tax and auditing services, direct tax and VAT,
• Co-ordinating the provision of legal compliance services and of bank services
• Preparing annual accounts/ statutory accounts and consolidated (if applicable)
• Handling the audit process, the consolidation process and preparing any reporting for the underlying investments
• Preparing data and documentation for BCL reporting
• Doing the calculation and reconciliation of fees, budget preparation
• Invoicing and Re-invoicing (Check & reconciliation, record and responsible for payment of all invoices)
• Organising payment of any distributions by the Luxembourg company, in charge of the call back procedure
• Setting-up of the entity with the assistance of our legal advisor
• Bank account opening / Coordination and access
• Archiving documentation related to accounting and finance
• Liquidation of entities and follow-up

Your profile:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 7+ years' related experience
• Fluent in English and French, written and spoken
• Hands-on experience working with general ledgers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A team player with a good sense of humour; a reliable, motivated, proactive and extremely organised individual who exhibits a strong willingness to learn quickly in a demanding environment
• Ability to prioritise workloads, multitask and manage multiple competing deadlines
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Knowledge into BOB
• Proficient with ERP systems, including Microsoft Office

Could this be the right opportunity for you? Please do not hesitate to send your CV to Valerie Potier valerie.potier@andersonwise.com to be considered for this recruitment process.

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Do you enjoy corporate transactions and would like to get further exposure to mergers and acquisitions?

Would you like to work for a market leading law firm with an international presence?

On behalf of our client an international market leading law firm, we are currently looking for a Lawyer to join their Corporate and M&A department. Our client is looking for people at various levels of experience for this role, so whether you are a newly qualified lawyer or have up to 6 years of PQE experience you are suitable for this role.

The team advise domestic and global corporations, investments banks, private equity providers, state and semi state entities and individual shareholders.

The Role

The team provide advice in the following areas:

• Private and Public M&A
• Equity Capital Markets
• Private Equity
• Venture Capital and Growth Equity
• Corporate mergers, migrations and demergers
• Corporate advisory and Company Law

The Person

• Qualified Solicitor with NQ-6 years PQ in a corporate law firm
• Experience in corporate transactions including acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, venture capital and private equity
• Experience in shareholder agreements, joint ventures, corporate structures and company law
• Commercial contract experience
• Strong team player who can also work on own initiative

Could this be the right opportunity for you? Please do not hesitate to send your CV to Pawel Galanty pawel.galanty@andersonwise.com to be considered for this recruitment process. Your application will be treated with the utmost discretion. 

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For one of our clients, an international Asset Manager we are assisting the recruitment of a newly created position of Senior Manager Investment Compliance.

Our client offers a dynamic working environment within a professional global compliance team. This is a newly created position focusing on Private Assets. Within this role you will play a key role in advising the business and senior management on compliance matters related to new Private Asset product launch.

Moreover, you will complete compliance assessments related to distribution, marketing, and products. This position offers you a large exposure within the group. You will work closely with different stakeholders, such as fund managers, research analyst, trading desks and the corporate finance team.

This position suites a person that has at least 8 to 10 years’ + experience within a Compliance position at an Asset Manager with solid knowledge of AIFMD. Somebody with a hands-on mentality, who is passionate about compliance topics and will contribute to the success of the Management Company and its new product ranges.

Do you think this could be the right position for you? Please contact me for more information

Your Responsibilities

The Senior Manager will report directly to the Head of Private Asset Compliance and work closely with senior management in different locations.

Moreover, you will:

• Provide Investment Compliance advise across different asset classes
• Review and sign off Private Assets related marketing materials
• Work closely with a wide range of different stakeholders within the group.
• Develop training for the private asset activities
• Keep the business and senior management up to date of any regulatory changes

Your profile

• Degree in Law, Finance or Business
• You have at least 8 – 10 + years’ experience within a Compliance advisory position, ideally coming from Asset Management.
• Solid knowledge of Private Assets, such as Private credit, Real Estate, Private Equity, Infrastructure is a must
• Good understanding of the European legislation such as AIFMD, MiFID, UCITS
• Financial crime related legislation knowledge, such as AML and Anti Bribery and corruption, would be seen as an asset
• You are fluent in English both written and spoken. Any other European language would be considered a benefit.
• You are a natural team player and have the ability to communicate at all levels in /outside the organisation
• You are looking to work in an international, fast moving and growing environment

Could this be the right opportunity for you? Please do not hesitate to send your CV to Saskia van Rijswijk saskia.vanrijswijk@andersonwise.com to be considered for this recruitment process. Your application will be treated with the utmost discretion.

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Junior Corporate Assistant

For our client, a major and global Asset Manager with a strong presence in Luxembourg, we are looking for a junior Corporate Assistant. In this role, you will have the great opportunity to be part of an international team in constant evolution. This opportunity would correspond to a professional who is eager to learn and develop new skills, who is not afraid of changes and who is open to grow within a fast moving environment. In this position, you will report to the Head of Finance and Operations and work closely with the local Legal and Finance Team.

Your Responsibilities

• Manage intra-group and external payments
• Preparation of weekly cash registers
• Scanning, uploading, archiving and distribution of documents received
• Assisting with onshore and offshore execution of documents on behalf of various companies
• Liaison with notaries, law firms, banks etc. with regards to setting up of new companies and bank accounts
• Fillings before the Luxembourg register of commerce
• Treatment of mail in and out
• Office management

 Your profile

• Previous experience in a similar role
• Fluent in English - French and/or German advantageous
• Good knowledge of MS Office
• Ability to work autonomously in large part in a cross-border, global team environment
• Results-driven, strong communication skills and strong team-spirit

Could this be the right opportunity for you? Please do not hesitate to send your CV to Valerie Potier valerie.potier@andersonwise.com to be considered for this recruitment process. Your application will be treated with the utmost discretion.  

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Our Client is a leading global private markets firm with a focus on private equity, private debt, private real estate, and private infrastructure investments. It sets itself apart by creating value in its investments through active and long-term responsible ownership.

Our Client is looking for a Regional Customer Due Diligence ('CDD') / KYC Technical Expert to act as a senior member of the CDD team, responsible for compliance assurance by maintaining and developing their AML / CDD technical expertise as well as overseeing the execution of AML / CDD tasks performed by service providers. In this role, the candidate and the wider CDD team operate in close conjunction with the Compliance team in addition to other stakeholders such as local committee members, investors, and regulatory bodies. This is an opportunity to join a Company that sets itself apart through the experience and expertise of its local teams, leading and actively contributing to the technical workstreams of AML / CDD projects.

Regional Customer Due Diligence / KYC Technical Expert

Your areas of responsibility:

• Acting as the thought leader and undisputed technical expert on CDD matters in your allocated jurisdiction and acting as the reference point for CDD knowledge globally, with the clear expectation of you building up certain global expertise and acting as a sounding board for CDD knowledge globally
• Being the CDD team's internal and external compliance assurance control: i.e. i) internally within the global CDD team to ensure that regulatory requirements/expectations are appropriately translated into the operational set-up and procedures catalogue and ii) externally vis-a-vis service providers to ensure service delivery is in line with regulations and Company’s expectations
• Leading and / or meaningfully contributing to the technical workstreams of AML / CDD projects whose objectives are to contribute to the firm's growth and digitalization strategies
• Managing and ably resolving to challenge CDD promptly, in compliance with regulation and in line with stakeholder expectations. In this respect, making the right judgement calls leveraging previous experience and know-how
• Owning the assessment of regulatory change and accomplishing seamless transition / implementation into operations
• Coaching and developing CDD team members and other internal stakeholders, including the Company’s client solutions members and other relevant employees, on technical knowledge to enable proper fulfilment and execution of duties
• Successfully managing stakeholder relationships and expectations, including those of investors and the Company’s client solutions teams, local boards and global committees
• Collaborating with the Head of CDD Operations and other CDD technical experts across the globe on various projects and task deliverables. 

What you offer:

• Member of Management position suited to a professional with a minimum of 9 – 12 years of relevant work experience
• Solid AML / CDD experience and advanced know-how in the field
• Demonstrable ability to independently take decisions and make the right judgement calls
• The candidate should excel at business implementation of regulatory requirements
• Ideally, the candidate should have experience in AML / CDD matters beyond Luxembourg and would have worked in this ambit in other jurisdictions

Could this be the right opportunity for you? Please do not hesitate to send your CV to David Kitzinger at david.kitzinger@andersonwise.com to be considered for this recruitment process. Your application will be treated with the utmost discretion.

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Finance and Administrative Coordinator

Our client is a major player in the alternative investments industry. In this company, you will enjoy working with highly competent professionals in an international and dynamic environment. The company will support you in your development, offer flexible working hours and working from home days, a competitive salary package and possibilities to develop your career.

Your Responsibilities

Your role is to provide coordination and support to the business teams, on the operational onboarding of the new deals. By assisting the business teams, your main responsibilities are to properly organize the setup of the newly portfolio, in fast paced environment.

You will: 

• Support the teams with the set-up and onboarding of the newly acquired portfolios to ensure their requirements are met, such as reporting dates, definition of responsibilities
• Coordinate and liaise with the key stakeholders (internal and external) involved in the deals
• Participate and facilitate the completion of deal acquisitions:

• Define, schedule, develop and maintain a realistic scenario
• Identify, manage issues and risks
• Follow up of the legal documentation
• Extract the documentation from foreign data rooms and update internal records
• Monitor the progress of the deal
• Follow up cost-trackers

• Organize and attend meetings, take minutes, insure follow up

Your Profile:

•  Bachelor Degree or equivalent;
• About 1-3 years’ experience in an administrative or finance-related position that requires organisation, coordination and planning. Experience in Real Estate would be an advantage
• Fluency in English is a must
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for business related matters
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to deal efficiently with people at different level of hierarchy
• High sense of organization and detail-orientation
• Sense of ownership, accountability and urgency
• Solution oriented approach/ problem-solving aptitude
• Exhibits positive attitude and flexibility

• Ability to work independently but also an excellent team player

• Proficiency with MS Office standard applications
• Knowledge in Accounting will be definitely an asset but not a must.

On occasion, an offer of employment may be subject to a verification check. In this case a potential employer may ask you to provide documentation to support your application, this can include copies of educational achievements, international criminal record checks, reference checks, employment history etc.

Could this be the right opportunity for you? Please do not hesitate to send your CV to Aude François aude.francois@andersonwise.com to be considered for this recruitment process.

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Our Client is a dynamic fintech / regtech start-up comprising an in-house AIFM currently focused on private equity, venture capital and funds of funds. They intend to soon invest in debt, real estate, infrastructure and / or cryptocurrencies. To help manage this rapidly evolving AIFM, our Client is looking to appoint a Conducting Officer in charge of Risk Management & Valuation, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and the board of managers of the AIFM. 

This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced, entrepreneurial working environment prioritizing teamwork and enabling career development. Their multicultural, dedicated team of investment fund experts, developers and data scientists are committed to pooling together their different backgrounds to reinvent fund services, ultimately working together in becoming a leader in fund services through technology’s disruptive impact.

AIFM Risk Management & Valuation Conducting Officer

Your areas of responsibility:

Risk Policies, Valuation Framework & Governance

• Follow up on the establishment, implementation and execution of the risk strategy and relevant governance measures, as defined by the management committee and board of managers of the AIFM

• Implement & periodically review the AIFM’s and the AIF’s risk and liquidity management policy and procedure, and implement such procedures, processes, techniques and measurements and the valuation framework

• Engage with and advise the AIFM management committee, board of managers, external and internal auditors, the CSSF and others about the AIFM and AIFs risk management

• Ensure that delegated functions are appropriately governed from a risk standpoint (e.g., portfolio, fund administration & marketing etc.)

Risk Monitoring & Reporting

• Ensure the internal/external production of risk reporting including risk measurements and benchmarks against risk limits

• Monitor/ ensure that assets of the AIF remain in the thresholds from the constitutive documents & applicable legal provisions
• Contribute the risk-related components of the annual reporting required by the CSSF and coordinate, as needed, with third parties for its production
• Coordinate with the production of relevant financial and other metrics, both qualitative and quantitative, required to produce risk reporting at the level of the AIFM

Risk Due Diligence

• Design, initiate and perform due diligence on the portfolio managers and other services providers to the alternative investment funds and the AIFM (the “Service Providers”)
• Ensure conditions required at the time of its appointment are met by the Service Providers
• Identify all risk factors relevant to a specific AIF, its measurement metrics and specific limits and the data collection process and compilation

Risk Oversight of Portfolio Management

• Ensure that portfolio company level risks from the standpoint of the AIFM and the AIF are effectively managed
• Ensure that the investment process undertaken by the delegate follows the relevant investment parameters, as defined in the portfolio management agreement between the AIFM and the portfolio manager

• Interface with the group relevant risk and investment bodies to monitor compliance with portfolio management delegation
• Coordinate & participate in the oversight of portfolio company-related operational, regulatory, and other risks regarding the AIF

• Analyze existing/ new AIF products from a risk management point of view and suggest risk management techniques
• Define, review, and update detailed risk profiles and risk appetite for the AIFs, and the AIFM

Valuation Oversight

• Co-create and co-design financial models for the calculation of net present values for alternative investments with an initial focus on the asset classes of Alternative Funds managed by the AIFM from time to time
• Co-ordinate the Valuation Committee of the AIFM
• Review, validate and challenge external appraisals on all components (cash flow forecasts, construction of the discount factor, other crucial factors, and model assumptions)
• Liaise with portfolio managers & valuation providers
• Work on the analysis of the assets (like common drivers and how a change in the discount rate affects a risk category), and the drivers behind movements and how these impact the risk management

What you offer:

• Good analytical, organizational, writing & communication skills
• Goal-oriented, hands-on mentality
• Managing internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated project management skills and accountability for delivery
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team and know when to escalate matters with the Board and local Management
• Highly goal-oriented, and solutions-focused
• 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in risk management related roles within an AIFM
• Master’s degree/PhD in Economics, Finance, Mathematics or Business Administration and Management, with high mathematical content
• A solid understanding of financial instruments, quantitative finance, risk management methods (e.g., Value-at-Risk), as well as risks linked to complex financial products
• Good knowledge of the regulatory framework and risk management framework (UCITS, AIFMD, CESR/ESMA guidelines)
• Proficiency in written and spoken English, as well as French and/or German. Luxemburgish will be considered an advantage