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Financial Controller - German speaker

Luxemburg (Grand Duchy) Permanent €85,000 - €100,000 per year Work from home View Job Description
The Senior Statutory Financial Controller owns the end-to-end integrity of statutory financial reporting and localized tax compliance across several critical international jurisdictions, including Germany, Israel, and the Nordic region. Operating from Luxembourg, this position delivers strategic financial governance and acts as the definitive partner to regional leadership, external auditors, and group accounting teams.

Added 27/05/2026

  • Drive financial governance across complex, cross-border DACH and EMEA markets.
  • Lead financial transformation within a premier, global enterprise software group

About Our Client

Our client is a premier, publicly traded market leader specializing in institutional banking software and core enterprise financial infrastructure. With a global distribution network covering more than 140 countries, the organization delivers high-availability corporate computing systems to thousands of prominent financial services organizations. The company environment offers professionals massive financial scale, cross-border corporate exposure, and a structured, high-performance setting designed for continuous vertical growth.

Job Description

  • Financial Governance & Compliance: Enforce the rigorous application of corporate accounting frameworks and internal control standard operating procedures to secure group-wide financial asset protection.


  • Statutory Reporting: Formulate, execute, and file accurate annual statutory financial records in absolute compliance with targeted local guidelines, specifically emphasizing German GAAP (HGB) and IFRS frameworks.


  • Fiscal Management: Oversee all local direct and indirect tax reporting obligations, executing corporate income tax, withholding tax, and VAT optimization models in deep partnership with Group Tax stakeholders.


  • Audit Management & Leadership: Serve as the principal primary point of contact for corporate external auditors, successfully orchestrating the end-to-end statutory audit roadmap from structural setup to definitive sign-off.


  • Corporate Integrity Controls: Coordinate monthly cross-checks of multi-entity balance sheets and profit & loss registers to preserve data integrity and prevent any financial variance.


  • Global Service Integration: Maintain efficient, productive communication channels with centralized transaction teams based in Shared Services Centers (SSC), alongside Treasury, Legal, and Group operational desks.


  • Strategic Transformations: Guide corporate structural modifications, providing specialized technical finance support during legal entity creations, operational corporate mergers, or subsidiary closures in the region.


  • Systems & Technology Projects: Contribute actionable domain insight into multinational digital transformation initiatives, process-automation rollouts, and advanced Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform updates.



The Successful Applicant

  • Educational Qualifications: University degree in corporate finance, financial accounting, or a highly related quantitative business discipline.


  • Professional Experience: Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience within corporate accounting, financial controlling, or external audit workflows, ideally established inside an elite technology or complex international setting.


  • Technical Core Skills: Highly developed structural mastery of local GAAPs (HGB specifically), international reporting rules (IFRS), and cross-border European tax regulations.


  • Systems Capability: Advanced functional proficiency utilizing Microsoft Excel alongside operational familiarity with top-tier multi-currency ERP environments (such as Oracle configurations).


  • Personal Attributes: Highly autonomous operator possessing distinct problem-solving capacities and the core soft skills required to convey complex regulatory items to non-finance stakeholders.


  • Linguistic Competencies: Complete professional fluency in written and spoken English and German is an absolute pre-requisite for this cross-border mandate.



What's on Offer

  • Competitive corporate compensation package benchmarked against premier Luxembourg standards.


  • Flexible hybrid work structure ensuring personal autonomy and operational agility.


  • Comprehensive employee benefits suite alongside progressive family and wellness frameworks.


  • Accelerated horizontal and vertical promotion tracks inside a leading public global tech vendor.



Contact
Thomas de Looz
Quote job ref
JN-052026-7026608

Job summary

Sector
Banking & Financial Services
Sub Sector
Financial Manager & Controller
Industry
Technology & Telecoms
Location
Luxemburg (Grand Duchy)
Contract Type
Permanent
Consultant name
Thomas de Looz
Job Reference
JN-052026-7026608
Remote or office
Work from home

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