Finance Director, EMEA

Opportunity

Endeavour has an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about sustainability and eager to be part of an innovative company that’s on a journey to build the world’s most efficient and innovative data centers while transforming data center infrastructure. We are seeking a Finance Director, EMEA to join the Endeavour group, launching a Luxembourg office for our new Edged headquarters in Europe.  The Edged global data center platform is growing quickly as our team is developing data centers in multiple countries in Europe, US and beyond.  Working directly with the accounting team in US and alongside the Endeavour CFO, the Finance Director, EMEA will be responsible for building and scaling an accounting team in Luxembourg, developing and implementing financial systems and processes, financial reporting, tax strategy and compliance, and transaction controls across multiple countries.  The Finance Director, EMEA will have the advantage of leveraging staff, systems and processes of the US team while ramping a new team and initiating the Edged accounting operations in Europe.

The Finance Director, EMEA needs to be agile, professional, fearless and extremely hands-on in a rapidly changing environment. The right person is trustworthy with confidential information, highly organized, self-motivated, has excellent communication skills, can think strategically, and works equally as well independently as with a team.  This leader will be a self-starter who can chart a course without a road map.  This role requires a motivated achiever willing and motivated to do whatever is needed to accomplish our mission.

Endeavour is highly selective about the people we bring on board because our ecosystem depends on it. Change happens quickly here, and we must maintain a strong team of honest, communicative, collaborative, open-minded, strategic, reliable, and driven team members. We seek creative performers with self-awareness, a sense of humility, and a hunger to make a positive impact in the world. Endeavour offers flexibility and endless growth opportunities to those who can harness their skills and talents and identify how and where to use them to add value. Our support team is the heart of the ecosystem. We’re a diverse group of bright, passionate, dedicated people, working together to make a real difference. Are you ready to join the journey?

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the pre-con and construction budgets and forecasts interfacing with various tech and construction teams as well as internal accounting staff.
• Implement construction management accounting processes, procedures and systems, and oversee all transaction processes.
• Hands-on management and execution of all accounting, closings and general ledgers and financial reporting for multiple entities in multiple companies.
• Continuously improve accounting transaction processes to create efficiencies, maximize accuracy and minimize waste and risk.
• Manage treasury, monitor cash flow, and work with JV partners to ensure accurate and timely capex reporting, as well as the procurement of external funding.
• Manage budget compliance and provide variance analysis.
• Provide financial analysis, with emphasis on capital investments, pricing decisions, and contract negotiations.
• Manage all income tax, VAT and activities for several international entities, construction projects and interface with international joint venture partners.
• Work closely with outside accounting firms to maximize tax advantaged strategies and facilitate tax compliance for our international platform.
• Work closely with tech leaders in various emerging technology product companies to provide timely and accurate data and financial reports, and to provide governance over the transaction processes.
• Work collaboratively with construction teams, contractors and suppliers to identify cost saving opportunities and ensure compliance.
• Manage financial statement preparation with outside accountants (review/audits)
• Recruit, train, manage and mentor a growing staff.

Education and Experience

• Professional accountancy qualification (e.g. ACCA / a comparable international designation).
• 7-10 years or more of related experience – combination public/private preferred, with experience in development and construction accounting and finance. Data center development experience would be optimal.
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS (required); familiarity with local GAAP frameworks in relevant jurisdictions is a plus.
• Proficiency in accounting and ERP systems (Sage Intacct experience preferred) and advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Experience moving from internally prepared financials to managing the external audit process. 
• Experience with investor communications and reporting.
• Strong understanding of cross-border financial compliance, tax structuring, and managing multiple entities across jurisdictions.

Specific Skills / Abilities

• Resourceful and fearless when it comes to taking on new projects, acquisitions, technologies and businesses with no previous history to draw upon and potentially no prior knowledge of the areas assigned.
• Ability to build an accounting organization from the ground up.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task and work with tight deadlines.
• Self-motivated, strategic, collaborative, and well-organized.
• Exhibits strong leadership qualities and people-management skills.
• A good team-player, able to give and take honest, constructive feedback well.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Great Place to Work

Enjoy…

  A fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture focused on innovation.

  A flexible, autonomous work environment.  (HYBRID WFH/Office)

  A culture of respect, learning, and excellence.

  Experienced, highly talented experts as team peers.

  Growth and travel opportunities.

  A team of change-makers having a significant impact on people and the planet.

About Endeavour

Endeavour is the main hub—a self-sustaining incubation platform for innovation—within a larger ecosystem focused on sustainable infrastructure. It provides the space, time, and all necessary resources to take advanced technologies from ideation through development to launch. Every day we are helping innovators to develop and launch global solutions to tackle global challenges, which is no easy task. Our teams work extremely hard because we all believe in Endeavour’s mission: to guarantee clean water and renewable energy to everyone, everywhere. We are working hard to decentralize infrastructure and deploy innovative energy, water, and waste treatment solutions that are more sustainable and more profitable than those currently in existence. Our team of passionate change-makers want to leave the world better than the way we found it. Endeavour prides itself on hiring talented, highly motivated people because that’s what our mission requires. There is a strong sense of camaraderie between good-natured people who bring their A-game to work, every day, to make a difference. To work at Endeavour is to know that you are part of something special—something bigger than yourself.

Today, we’re deploying solutions that are immediately scalable and profitable, including EV charging, data center cooling, and waste to fuel systems. As we look to the future, Endeavour intends to remain at the forefront of innovation, taking on grander challenges based on the needs of our clients and of local economies. We hope that our Sustainable Habitat for Innovation towards a Purpose (SHIP) will be a model that inspires people and businesses to join the journey so that together we can combine the best of what technology and the natural world can offer to ensure a regenerative/sustainable world for generations to come.  Are you ready to #JoinTheJourney?

 

Position: Finance Director, EMEA

Full-Time or Part-Time: Full-Time

Reports to: CFO

Location: Luxembourg