About us

Mourant Governance Services delivers a comprehensive range of corporate, accounting, governance and fiduciary services through a dedicated team of experienced professionals in the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey, Luxembourg, Mauritius and the UK.

Our clients include financial institutions, asset managers, global corporates and family offices. We routinely work in partnership with the most prestigious international legal and accountancy firms.

Our governance professionals deliver bespoke solutions and assist our clients in complying with local legal and regulatory requirements across a number of sectors including real estate and private equity.

Established in 2024, MourantGS Services (Luxembourg) S.à r.l. has built a strong reputation for delivering high-quality governance services, including company secretarial, board and fiduciary services and accounting and tax. We are now creating a new Chartered Accountant entity in Luxembourg (the OEC Entity) dedicated to regulated financial, governance and fiduciary services. This entity will operate as part of the wider Mourant Group, combining local expertise with an international network to provide exceptional service to our clients.

About the role

We are hiring a Managing Director – Head of Luxembourg Chartered Accountant entity (m/f/d). In this role, you will lead the new Mourant Governance Services Chartered Accountant entity in Luxembourg, delivering fiduciary and governance services to a portfolio of international corporate & institutional clients. Working closely with MourantGS Services (Luxembourg) and its affiliated law firm Mourant Ozannes (Luxembourg) S.à r.l., you will launch, develop and take overall responsibility for that service line within Luxembourg. 

You will take a lead role in implementing the vision and strategy of the OEC Entity Luxembourg business, within the framework of the overall Mourant group strategy.  The role has important leadership and management components as well as a significant functional element, and a willingness to get involved in day-to-day client service is essential.

You will join the Board of Directors of the firm and will be Daily Manager (délégué à la gestion journalière) and the Nominated Officer under Luxembourg Anti-Money Laundering Regulations.

You will be part of an entrepreneurial "one-firm" culture founded on the ethics and ethos of a multi-disciplinary professional services firm.

Your duties and responsibilities to include:

Manage day-to-day Luxembourg operations

• Lead the OEC Entity's strategy for Luxembourg, including on business development.

• Promote efficiency and manage risk in the OEC Entity Luxembourg business.

• Identify and deliver improvements to the Luxembourg governance and accounting services delivery model.

• Support business growth in a way that's consistent with Mourant Governance Services' risk appetite and in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

• Work collaboratively with the law firm partners, Mourant Governance Services colleagues in all operating jurisdictions and Mourant business services teams, so as to benefit and develop the business, ensuring that the Mourant legal and governance services businesses are fully integrated, operate in a unified, consistent and coordinated manner and provide a seamless legal and corporate service to the firm's clients.

• Provide support and guidance in the performance management of any Luxembourg OEC Entity 's team members and supporting the continuous development of the team.

• Act as a role model and assist the senior leaders to develop teams of motivated, highly proficient professionals who act in accordance with the firm's values and in parallel to the excellent law firm service levels.

• Share your knowledge and experience with your colleagues, provide technical support and training to them as and when required.

• Lead on the take-on of new business ensuring all relevant information is captured and risk assessments (including tax risk assessments) are completed in line with Mourant policies and procedures.

• Lead, manage and deliver all aspects of the Mourant Luxembourg business in a manner that is compliant with regulatory requirements and meets best practice.

• Keep abreast of all relevant regulatory changes and industry standards and take overall responsibility for risk connected with the new Luxembourg OEC Entity's business, including working collaboratively with the Global Operations team and the Risk & Compliance team to ensure that effective policies, procedures, systems and controls are into secure our compliance culture.

• Ensure client and regulatory data is kept up to date at all times and identify new data, reporting and information requirements as the business and services develop.

• Ensure timely preparation of the OEC Entity's board reports.

• Ensure compliance with our product governance process (the company's Internal Licensing Framework).

Delivery of client service

In addition to day-to-day management of the OEC Entity Luxembourg business you will also be responsible for client service delivery including:

• Day-to-day administration, bookkeeping and preparation of financial statements for various Luxembourg entities.

• Preparing monthly, quarterly and year-end closings.

• Preparing VAT & Tax returns.

• Maintaining accounting records for client entities and liaising with the global accounting team in the preparation of financial statements where relevant.

• Assisting Mourant Ozannes (Luxembourg) S.à r.l. with the incorporation of Luxembourg companies including the account opening process when required.

• Maintaining statutory records for client entities and submitting required statutory filings to maintain good standing.

• Preparing minutes of all meetings of client entities.

• Providing company secretarial services to client entities.

• Maintaining required logs and records for client entities as specified by Mourant policies and procedures (including to enable the company to comply with its obligations under Luxembourg Anti-Money Laundering Regulations).

• Ensuring the OEC Entity and our client entities operate in accordance with any relevant legislation.

• Ensuring client expectations are properly managed and valuable relationships are nurtured, so as to maximise the reputation of the team in the market and the potential for repeat work and referrals.

• You will also be invited to take on suitable client fiduciary roles (e.g. directorships) and/or to act as authorised signatory on certain client entities.

Nominated Officer

In your capacity as Nominated Officer you will:

• Receive reports of suspicious activity from persons engaged in the business of the OEC Entity's business.

• Consider reports of suspicious activity in the light of any relevant information available and evaluate if it gives rise to knowledge or suspicion or reasonable grounds for knowledge or suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing.

• Report any suspicious activity or transaction to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by completing and submitting a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) in accordance with Mourant's SAR policy and procedure.

• Ask the NCA for a defence to a money laundering offence in relation to the transactions reported and ensure that no transactions are continued illegally.

• Ensure the OEC Entity complies with relevant policies and procedures in Mourant's global AML/CFT/Manual for all new and ongoing client business.

• Work with Group Compliance in Jersey to periodically carry out financial crime risk assessments in respect of the OEC Entity's business.

Role as director

• Your role may involve being a member of certain Luxembourg regulated or supervised boards.  Following your admission to the board of a regulated or supervised business, you would be responsible to those boards and MourantGS HoldCo Limited for Luxembourg client services.

• As a director and holder of the Business License of a Mourant Governance Services entity you would, of course, be required to allocate sufficient time to discharge your board responsibilities effectively.  You would take part in induction on joining a board and should regularly update and refresh your skills and knowledge.  You would be expected to dedicate sufficient time as a director to reviewing, in a timely manner, information supplied and might be required to take part in a formal and rigorous annual evaluation of performance of the board, its committees and individual directors.

• In addition to the duties listed above, you may be required to perform any other ad hoc duties or projects as requested by the Managing Director of Mourant Governance Services.

About you – essential requirements

This role requires:

• At least 10 years of relevant experience in senior leadership in the fields of domiciliation and fiduciary services or in audit firms.

• You are a chartered accountant, member of the OEC of Luxembourg.

• Bachelor and/or master's degree in accounting, audit or economics.

• Demonstrable experience in and an operational understanding of the Luxembourg legal and regulatory environment applicable to the delivery of trust and company services (including in relation to compliance with the Luxembourg Money Laundering Regulations).

• Confidence and proven experience in working with international clients, strong cross cultural communication skills and a solid understanding of the UK and US markets.

• A clear aptitude for client service delivery.

• Highly developed interpersonal skills; a real team player.

• Drive, ambition, an objective-setter who achieves goals.

• Ability to deliver a winning strategy.

• Advanced skills on MS Office tools and BOB50.

• Fluency in English and French.

• Skills in:

a)    identifying risk, especially Luxembourg tax risk, complex fiduciary risk and financial crime risk; and

b)    managing such risk, including by obtaining, understanding and implementing advice.