# Commercial Advisor

**Company**: Clifford Chance
**Location**: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Commercial Advisor to join our Finance team in Luxembourg. As a Commercial Advisor, you will be responsible for supporting the Commercial teams in Luxembourg and Brussels, and working closely with Partners, Lawyers, and Practice Group Leaders from both offices.

The specific aim of the role is to maximize billing and collections and minimize financial risks whilst aiming to achieve billing and collection targets and to minimize WIP and Debtors balances.

Key responsibilities:

- Be the end-to-end trusted advisor and business partnering support to the Partners you work with

- Analysis, preparation for, ownership and leadership of, Partner WIP and Debt meetings

- Proactive working capital management for the portfolio of matters and Partners you support

- First point of contact for Partners and a point of escalation for colleagues on commercial issues

- Highlight opportunities to leverage and proactively engage with the commercial support network (including Commercial Pricing Specialists, Legal Project Managers and Resource Managers)

- Building a network and working with Clients on commercial issues as a Financial Lead for local, regional and globally strategic clients

- Management of the workflow between Commercial Assistants

- Training Commercial Assistants to ensure delivery of high-quality output and consistent service

Qualifications:

- A degree or equivalent qualification in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related field.

- Fluency in English and French, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.

- Solid experience in a commercial finance role, ideally covering billing and collections within a professional services environment.

- Strong commercial and financial acumen, with a good understanding of working capital management and the order-to-cash process.

- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to quickly understand new concepts, systems and processes.

- High attention to detail and a proactive, solution-focused approach.

- Confidence working with and influencing stakeholders at all levels across the Firm.

- Advanced MS Office skills, particularly Excel.

- Experience with FIS GetPaid, InTapp Open and Oracle would be an advantage.

- Ability to work independently while remaining connected to both local and global teams.

- A flexible, can-do attitude and openness to change.

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## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- Business
- English
- French
- MS Office
- Excel
- FIS GetPaid
- InTapp Open
- Oracle

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