Accountant

Job Description

The manager acts as a hands-on a technical expert within the Core Team Accounting contributing to high-quality client delivery achieves impact through technical oversight, review, guidance and knowledge transfer.

What you'll do:

• You'll conduct technical reviews of accounting deliverables across bookkeeping, financial statements, management reporting, and tax returns, ensuring compliance with BeGAAP, Lux GAAP, IFRS, and US GAAP standards alongside internal quality procedures.
• You'll manage a portfolio of clients—primarily SPVs and alternative investment funds across Belgium and Luxembourg—serving as the technical reference point for complex accounting matters and client requests.
• You'll provide technical guidance and feedback to Accounting and GCD teams, supporting their professional development and ensuring consistent application of accounting standards across the organisation.
• You'll oversee the correct and timely use of internal systems and tools (Navigator WF, Navigator Doc, QICS), verify adherence to procedures, and participate in process improvement reviews.
• You'll identify and remediate technical risks, inconsistencies, and errors in accounting work, ensuring all deliverables meet regulatory requirements and client-specific expectations.

What we offer:

• Comprehensive remuneration and pension: motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
• Wellbeing: additional social benefits 
• Flexible working: we recognise the value of working flexibly and want to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

About you:

• You hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent (BAC+5) in Accountancy or Business Administration.
• You bring at least 6-8 years of professional experience in accounting, with strong technical expertise in Lux GAAP (essential) and knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP (advantageous).
• You are registered with and fully licenced by the Belgian Institute for Tax Advisors and Accountants (ITAA).
• You are proficient in Microsoft Office and Demasy, with native fluency in French or Dutch and fluent English; additional languages are an advantage.
• You demonstrate excellent technical accounting knowledge, attention to detail, and the ability to provide guidance on complex accounting matters across multiple regulatory frameworks.

Additional Information

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

As a forward-looking business, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 5,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, speaking 41 languages across 25 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support female managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We’re committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients' sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.