Head of Finance Luxembourg

Head of Finance Manager – LUX

Location: Luxembourg
Department: Finance
Job Type: Permanent
Travel Requirements: Occasional

DATA4’s Mission
To build highly connected, resilient, and sustainable data center campuses to support the growth of our clients across Europe.

DATA4 is a leading European operator and investor in the data center market. The Group finances, designs, builds, and operates its own data centers.

DATA4 Values

At DATA4 we are driven by our values. These are the core of everything we do – from the proactivity we show in delivering great outcomes for our clients, to the responsibility we show as a key contributor to the digital economy. Our three values are:

To be entrepreneurial – we are teams of doers who make things happen - with autonomy, energy and a sense of responsibility

To always take responsibility – for our impact on the people we work with, the society we are part of, and the environment in which we operate

To constantly be adaptable – our business is designed to adapt, answering not only today’s challenges, but also anticipating what’s coming next.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Group Accounting, Consolidation & Finance Transformation Director. The Head of Finance Lux will be responsible for structuring, managing, and consolidating the financial operations the Corporate entities in Lux.

Responsibilities

1. Accounting for Lux

• Structure the accounting organisation
• Ensure the quality of accounting entries in the system, covering external and interco financing activities, OPEX and costs of M&A projects
• Complete monthly, quarterly and annual closings under local GAAP and IFRS in a timely manner (quarterly consolidation package)
• Contribute to Financial fast close set up
• Manage relationships with Local auditors up to the issuance of audit reports (Group audit and local statutory audits).

1. Tax

• Lead tax declaration processes with the assistance of external advisors and support the challenge of tax opportunities managed by Head of Tax
• Support ad-hoc analyses and studies, particularly in close relationship with Tax Department (Transfer prices documentation) and Treasury Department
• Ensure Tax compliance
• Collaborate with other departments and coordinate all corporate finance structuring

1. Financial Control of Lux Entities

• Monitor monthly budget execution (Opex, Financing) in close interaction with the relevant departments at Corporate level.
• Prepare and oversee the budgeting and reforecasting process in collaboration with the concerned departments.
• Produce monthly performance analyses, dashboards, and activity reports for the finance department and executive committee.
• Contribute to optimizing the use of the finance system and participate in automating dashboard production.
• Prepare monthly cash flow forecasts and propose optimization.

1. Internal Control

• Organize the financing activities with a strong attention to internal control best practices and internal guidelines
• Approve spending commitments in line with Group policies
• Implement SOX procedures and documentation according to the yearly SOX group roadmap

1. Management of the Finance Organization

• Organize and plan the team’s activities, including OSP
• Ensure scalability of the organization to support fast strategic development of the organization
• Implement financing structuring collaboratively with Data4 Group departments
• Set and monitor individual and collective objectives.
• Ensure team members’ skills development.

Certification Responsibilities

Health & Safety: Enforce hygiene, health, and safety rules.

Environment: Enforce environmental policies.

Information Security: Enforce information security policies.

Energy: Enforce energy reduction policies.

Desired Profile

1. 
   Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration (Ideally CPA qualified)
• Experience in a Audit / Accounting firm.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in corporate finance.
• Managerial experience leading small teams.

1. 
   Technical Skills

• Excellent knowledge of accounting, consolidation, tax and best practices in financial control.
• Familiarity with accounting and treasury processes and softwares; experience of Consolidation and reporting systems (OneStream, for example); Microsoft Office
• Fluent in English.
• Experience in project and team management.

1. 
   General Skills

• Rigor and methodical approach, detailed oriented.
• Adaptability and responsiveness.
• Open-minded.
• Organizational skills, with the ability to manage priorities and deadlines.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.
• Ability to synthetise.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.