Controller

Concentrix Conseil France; Paris; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Concentrix Conseil France is seeking a Controller to lead monthly, quarterly and year-end closes for the EMEA region, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. You will interact with FP&A, AP, GLSS and intercompany teams to resolve variances and support audits.

Key duties include balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and driving process improvements while ensuring compliance with SOX controls. Excellent English and robust Excel skills are required.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant – with at least 3 years of experience
• Studying towards an Accounting qualification
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal with ability to engage with senior level
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet timelines on deliverables
• Strong knowledge in MS Excel and Financial systems
• English Proficiency essential

Responsibilities

• Managing in-country deliverables to meet finance closing deadlines
• Responsible for monthly balance sheet reconciliations and quarterly balance sheet reviews for France region
• Responsible for the labour related entries
• Posting journals to general ledger for related balance sheet accounts activity and support team
• Responsible for managing SOX compliance and controls for the EMEA region
• Prepare and post monthly journal entries related to accruals and prepayments
• Review the accuracy of general ledger accounts, investigate & identifies issues, and make recommendations
• Responsible to review month end P&L trend variances as true and fair from a statutory accounting perspective
• Providing commentary on variance from expectations and other key matters
• Responsible for Transfer Pricing activities as part of the month-end processes
• Year-end closure and preparation of information for auditors and dealing with their queries
• Provides ad-hoc support to the EMEA Accounting leadership team

Skills

Accounting

Communication

Multi-tasking

MS Excel

Financial systems

SOX awareness

Education

Accounting qualification

Tools

MS Excel

Financial systems

Job description

Job Title: Controller

Job Description Reporting into the Accounting Manager EMEA, the Specialist Accounting is responsible for the delivery of a quality and timely closing of each period end (7-day month end close) for the EMEA region in accordance with IFRS & US GAAP requirements. A significant focus of the role is to ensure month end, quarter-end and year-end processes are executed to a high degree of accuracy meeting tight reporting deadlines. You would be also responsible to ensure clean a balance sheet on a monthly basis for UK and Ireland countries. During month end, you will be working closely with the FP&A, AP, GLSS and Intercompany teams, ensuring P&L variances are sufficiently satisfied for statutory accounting purposes. You would also continuously drive improvements to internal processes and controls primarily within the EMEA Controller team but within the wider EMEA group, particularly around SOX controls which impacts the Controller team. A further focus area is to build a good working relationship with key stakeholders in the business units, in order to improve overall knowledge, thereby increasing the level of understanding and questioning. The role also provides support to the Accounting Manager EMEA & Director Accounting EMEA during internal & external audit fieldwork, and the subsequent resolution of any audit issues. It should be noted that tight reporting deadlines would often require a degree of flexibility regarding working hours, particularly around month end, quarter end and year end.

We’re Concentrix. The global technology and services leader that powers the world’s best brands, today and into the future. We’re solution-focused, tech-powered, intelligence-fueled. With unique data and insights, deep industry expertise, and advanced technology solutions, we’re the intelligent transformation partner that powers a world that works, helping companies become refreshingly simple to work, interact, and transact with. We shape new game-changing careers in over 70 countries, attracting the best talent. Our game-changers around the world have devoted their careers to ensuring every relationship is exceptional. And we’re proud to be recognized with awards such as “World’s Best Workplaces,” “Best Companies for Career Growth,” and “Best Company Culture,” year after year.

What you will do in this role

In everything we do, we believe in doing right by and for people – our clients, their customers, our people, our community, and our planet.

• Managing ‘in-country’ deliverables to meet finance closing deadlines
• Responsible for monthly balance sheet reconciliations and quarterly balance sheet reviews for France region
• Responsible for the labour related entries
• Posting journals to general ledger for related balance sheet accounts activity and support team
• Responsible for managing SOX compliance and controls for the EMEA region
• Prepare and post monthly journal entries related to accruals and prepayments
• Review the accuracy of general ledger accounts, investigate & identifies issues, and make recommendations
• Responsible to review month end P&L trend variances are true and fair from a statutory accounting perspective
• Providing commentary on variance from expectations and other key matters
• Responsible for Transfer Pricing activities as part of the month-end processes
• Year-end closure and preparation of information for auditors and dealing with their queries
• Provides ad-hoc support to the EMEA Accounting leadership team

Your qualifications

We embrace our game-changers with open arms, people from diverse backgrounds, who are curious and willing to learn. Your natural talent to help others and go beyond WOW for our customers will fit right in with what we do and who we are. Concentrix is a great match if you:

Skills & Experience Part

• Qualified Accountant – with at least 3 years of experience working within an accounting role
• Studying towards an Accounting qualification
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal with ability to engage with senior level
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet timelines on deliverables
• Strong knowledge in MS Excel and Financial systems
• Demonstrates flexibility in a period of change
• English Proficiency essential

Qualities & Attitude

• Exceptional communication skills
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Problem-solving and root cause identification skills.
• Strong analytic and decision-making abilities.
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
• Must be a team player and able to work with and through others.
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal

What’s in it for you

If all this feels like the perfect next step in your career journey, we want to hear from you.

We challenge conventions to deliver outcomes unimagined by creating customer experiences that go beyond WOW. Power the best version of you! At Concentrix, we invest in our game-changers because we know that when our people thrive, our clients and their customers thrive.

Concentrix is an equal opportunity employer. We're proudly united as one team, one company, globally. We're committed to equal employment opportunities for all candidates and a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. All our recruitment practices are based on business needs, job requirements, and professional qualifications, without regard to race, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, family or parental status, national origin, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable national laws.

Location: FRA Paris - 3 rue d'Heliopolis-Conseil

Language Requirements: Time Type: Full time

Mission

Hi, we're Concentrix. We’re a global technology and services leader that powers the brands of the future. We help well-known brands — the ones you use every day — improve their businesses with technology and integrated solutions, in over 70 countries.

Company Overview: We power the brands of the future. Some call us a global technology and services leader. But we’re so much more. Human-centered, tech-powered, intelligence fuelled. Every day we’re busy helping over 2000 of the world's best brands solve their toughest business challenges. Whether it’s…… designing game-changing brand experiences, building and scaling secure AI technologies, or building loyalty to drive revenue. We’ve got them covered. But how? We design, build, and run fully integrated, end-to-end solutions across the entire enterprise, at speed and scale. We