France Country Controller (Senior Manager)
- Paris
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- monitoring and ensuring compliance in the areas of accounting and reporting, tax and corporate governance,
- ensuring accurate financial statements are prepared and approved by the board and relevant governance bodies,
- providing support to business partners and
- identifying process enhancements and operating margin improvements initiatives.
External reporting
- Oversight of the preparation and audit of the local financial statements and notes, including:
- Participate in reviews with local EY team;
- Review and sign off on unrecorded adjustments;
- Review of margin reconciliation;
- Review Profit Sharing calculation;
- Review of financial statements and notes and other management reports if applicable;
- Preparation of executive summary;
- Review of YoY variance analysis.
- Review technical accounting memos and new disclosures;
- Monitor the accuracy and timely filing of local FS and Notes and all other relevant reporting;
- Support director in review of flux analysis and financial statements;
- Oversight of ad hoc requests received from external parties, such as government authorities (statistics/surveys/ratings) or any other official bodies.
- Actively monitor risks and obligations associated with the entity, document and take actions to nullify the risk and implement or change processes to ensure compliance:
- Monitor and communicate to relevant RPO and business partners changes and new requirements;
- Collaborate with relevant RPO and business partners to implement the changes;
- Prepare or review technical accounting memos in respect to local GAAP in relation to new business flow, new accounting standard, M&A etc;
- Ensure new local GAAP accounting standards and regulations are appropriately actioned and reflected in our Accounts, FS and reporting;
- Manage compliance with corporate governance requirements, working closely with legal and other stakeholders in order to meet these requirements;
- Participate in the documentation of the BDSE
- Report to the works council and other governance mechanisms;
- Support local risk assessment mapping and reviews;
- Ensure appropriate documentation is in place for local compliance framework;
- Monitor tax related filing obligations;
- Monitor ESG obligations and work with ESG team to ensure compliance;
- Provide assurance to directors on statements made to auditors as part of due diligence procedures.
- Business partnering with key stakeholders: tax (including transfer pricing), legal, financial planning and the business to support their needs, reduce costs and create efficiencies while not compromising compliance;
- Represent controllership and bring coherent jurisdictional perspective on cross functional forums;
- Support the directors fulfillment of their and the entity's’ duties;
- Attend and present financial information to Directors and works council;
- Prepare FAQ’s with public relations team to support media interest in the release of financial statements and support answers to press queries;
- Support tax audits and any other discussions with tax authorities;
- Support customer deals and bids in providing financial information or addressing specific queries;
- Monitor, support and influence external quotations or ratings;
- Establish and maintain relationship with country leader and support in any requests;
- Continuously assess process to embed process enhancements and efficiencies where possible;
- Support GPO on ad hoc projects related to compliance and external reporting enablement or on company projects
- Solid financial and accounting background;
- Knowledge and exposure to tax and corporate governance topics;
- Excellent communication and presentation skills In French and in English, both written and verbal;
- Ability to a navigate in a multinational and fast growing company;
- Ability to manage tight deadlines;
- Strong interpersonal skills;
- Project management skills;
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Attention to detail and accuracy.