Luxembourg, a thriving European financial hub at the heart of the EU, offers unique career opportunities for international professionals. With its multinational workforce, high living standards, and strong economy, Luxembourg actively seeks skilled workers in various sectors, particularly finance, technology, and professional services.
While securing a visa-sponsored position requires careful preparation and an understanding of Luxembourg’s employment regulations, many companies sponsor qualified international candidates. This blog will explore job opportunities offering visa sponsorship and key job requirements.
- KYC Administrator
As an administrator, you would work as part of a team of problem solvers with strong AML-KYC and industry experience. You would help clients address their operational compliance challenges across various AML-KYC services. Your responsibilities would also include assisting the team in delivering quality AML-KYC services to a list of top-tier/ priority clients. You would also perform hands-on compliance control tasks with attention to detail and operational rigor.
- Document Management Officer
Produce and manage centralized documents, ensure physical storage, proper localization, conservation, and destruction of documents/files/binders. Produce various reports to the risk management team. Your job description also involves implementing service improvement initiatives in line with the company objectives and lines of service needs, ensuring respect for internal procedures, quality, and risk management controls in the company processes. Your job also includes liaising with the IT team to update centralized tools.
- Java Developer
Do you have a diploma or degree in IT with interest in data management? or do you have previous professional experience in object-oriented programming? Then, this Java developer role is just perfect for you. As a Java developer, you would help develop and implement innovative applications to respond to the needs of various departments, share your knowledge with other specialists, and participate in projects from the conception phase to delivery.
- Business Assistant
Are you a professional with multitasking and proactive time management skills? Then this visa-sponsored job in Luxembourg is for you. As a business assistant, you would ensure the engagement cycle is correctly performed, and client data is accurately inputted into the systems while assisting key stakeholders such as partners, directors, and managers with different processes. This job also requires updating and ensuring the quality of assignments’ data, including creating work breakdown structures and roll-forward codes.
- Executive Assistant
Proactively managing calendars (planning, meetings, and business trips), making travel and accommodation arrangements (searching and booking flights & hotels, visa application & coordination, trip schedule, liaison with Travel for complex issues). You would also be responsible for managing phone calls incoming and outgoing mail, ensuring that administrative procedures are enforced, and performing quality control on documents. Your job description includes drawing up documents and presentations through various MS Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, etc.) and G Suite.
- Audit Associate
Do you have (or will soon have) a Master’s degree or equivalent in economics or management from a university or a business school, ideally specializing in accounting, finance, or audit? Or do you have first-hand experience in auditing or good knowledge of the Luxembourgish financial and regulatory environment with strong analytical skills? Then this job is yours! As an audit associate, you would take part in audit and accounting engagements for local and international clients in various business sectors; your job also includes and is not limited to implementing audit methodology (analyzing the client’s environment, assessing the risks and the internal control framework, auditing the financial statements, drafting recommendations and specific reports).
- Associate Transfer Agent
As an associate transfer agent, your responsibilities include providing high-quality service to clients, ensuring all deliverables and deadlines are met and in line with PwC Internal quality standards, ensuring all client queries are answered promptly, ensuring early escalation of issues to your manager as appropriate while identifying areas of improvements and proposing solutions/ mitigating actions. You would also be required to process investor transactions such as drawdowns, distributions, and transfers, handle all relevant payments related to investors’ transactions, and reconcile bank movements.
- Associate VAT Consulting
This job requires a strong interest in VAT matters, an excellent command of Microsoft Office Excel, bilingual competence, and fluency in French and English. Your job responsibilities include and are not limited to reviewing clients’ VAT obligations, interacting with the International Tax Department or Advisory Regulatory Department to support clients with expertise on specific issues, and offering advice on other indirect tax matters (registration, customs duties, and insurance premium tax).
- Information Security Officer
Are you a bilingual (fluent in English and French), meticulous, methodical, and proactive professional with a master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with a specialization in information security? Then this role is just right for you. Your job as an information security officer includes analyzing security audit reports (from pen tests, red team exercises, security assessment tools, etc.), understanding the vulnerabilities, and establishing action plans to remediate them. You must also liaise with the IT specialists to find the most appropriate remediation and ensure the follow-up of the action plans until they are completed as an information security officer.
- ESG Analyst
Implement the audit methodology, act as a sustainability expert, support members of extended audit teams on technical inquiries in the sustainable finance field, and take part in audit engagements for international clients in various business sectors to ensure non-financial information related to Sustainable Finance. This job requires you to have a Master’s degree or equivalent in economics or management from a university or a business school, ideally specializing in sustainability. The job requirement also includes experience in auditing or a good knowledge of the Luxembourgish financial and regulatory environment.
- Learning & Development Specialist
As a part of the learning and development team, your responsibilities include analyzing learning and development needs by liaising with the key stakeholders, participating in the definition/review of plans and ensuring their qualitative implementation, and participating in the organization of the learning events. You would also be responsible for managing facilitators, targets, schedules, and evaluations while coordinating with the team in charge of the logistical aspects.
- Associate International Corporate Tax
Advise the international clients on their structure from a tax perspective at every critical step of their business evolution, e.g., during their set-up, merger, buyout, launch of a new product, etc. Verify the application of local and international treaties and conduct research on Luxembourg and international tax legislation to answer the clients’ daily queries. Your job description also includes helping the teams in the management and updating of the client’s files and finding suitable solutions to avoid double taxation if possible.
- Risk Assurance – AML Associate
As an AML associate, you must have a Master’s degree or equivalent in Audit, Business, Economics, Financial Crime, or similar. Your job responsibilities include working on AML/CFT specific client assignments such as review and design of AML/CFT company programs or elements of it, AML risk assessments, risk appetite, distributor due diligence, audit of AML/CFT procedures and their application including customer due diligence files. You would also work with various professional actors such as management companies, transfer agents, custodians, and domiciliary agents.
- Associate Tax Regulatory Compliance
Do you have or will soon have a Master’s degree in economics or law, specializing in taxation? Or do you have a first legal or taxation experience with a strong interest in FATCA/CRS/QI, compliance, and consulting? Then, you should consider this visa-sponsored role in Luxembourg. As an associate, you would support international financial institutions (banks, insurance, funds) in implementing procedures to help them identify clients concerned with regulations such as FATCA, CRS, or QI. Your responsibilities include helping audit financial institutions, enforcing the rules, and participating in testing.
