Finance Consultant

Finance / Venture Capital Expert (B2B Contractor) – Luxembourg | 18 Months

Key Details:

· Contract Type: B2B Contract

· Workload: Full-time

· Duration: 18 months (1.5 years)

· Location: Luxembourg

· Language: English

Role Overview:

• This role combines venture capital and venture debt portfolio work with reporting and data/analytics delivery.
• You will work with internal stakeholders and technical teams to build a scalable reporting and analytics setup and hand it over to internal teams for ongoing use and development.

Responsibilities:

Phase 1 – Needs Analysis:

· Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to identify business use cases for:

• Internal reporting and decision-making
• Sharing insights with other EU agencies
• Potential ecosystem sharing (start-ups, national counterparties, innovation actors)
• Define desired portfolio reporting, KPIs, and insight requirements.
• Map current and future data sources and provide architecture recommendations.
• Evaluate the capabilities of VestBerry (including advanced reporting functionality) and fit for purpose.

Phase 2 – Delivery of Minimum Core Functionality:

• Support migration to the VestBerry platform (or equivalent), including processes and procedures for data management and maintenance.
• Establish a dedicated data lake, initially populated with Venture Debt portfolio information, with scalable onboarding of additional data sources.
• Implement an analytics visualisation layer (e.g., Power BI, Fabric, SAP BusinessObjects).
• Collaborate with internal/external Data Engineers to design and build semantic data models for analytics and reporting.
• Lead structured handover of models, reporting assets, and documentation to internal data engineers / data scientists for ongoing maintenance and development.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Law, Banking, Investment Banking, Business Administration, IT, or related discipline.

· 5+ years relevant professional experience in:

• Finance
• VC/PE
• Investment banking
• CFO role in a start-up
• Relevant consultancy
• Proven experience on at least one assignment involving investments in innovative early-stage companies/SMEs (including scale-ups) across equity, quasi-equity, and/or debt.
• Proven experience on at least one assignment demonstrating:
• Market consultations involving investors, early-stage companies/SMEs, and/or ecosystem actors
• Data analysis and interpretation
• Proven experience on at least one assignment related to due diligence of early-stage companies/SMEs (including scale-ups) across asset classes.

Assets / Nice to Have:

• CFA qualification (asset).
• Experience with data migration, VC portfolio systems, and monitoring / portfolio management tools (asset).
• Experience with European equity / blended financing structures (asset).

If interested, or you know someone that could be, please reach out.