Corporate Financial Controller

Nexans USA Inc; Puteaux; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexans USA Inc. seeks a finance professional to lead Corporate cost control within the Corporate Financial Control team. You will partner with key corporate functions to build budgets, forecast costs, monitor performance and explain variances to senior leadership.

Responsibilities include monthly reporting to the CEO and CFO, consolidation tasks, fixed cost analysis and development of group dashboards to support strategic decisions. Strong analytical and Excel/ERP skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Master degree in Finance
• 3 years experience in Audit or controlling
• Strong analytical depth with business perspective
• Rigorous with data accuracy and reliability

Responsibilities

• Be the key point of referent for Corporate costs control and partner with Finance, HR, Legal, and other functions to build the budget and forecast.
• Explain key variances versus budget and support corrective actions to top management.
• Drive continuous improvement in cost controlling, data quality and transparency.
• Provide monthly reporting to the CEO and CFO and bi-annual cost evolution presentations.
• Collaborate to close monthly books and prepare fixed cost accruals and consolidation entries.
• Prepare BRs on fixed costs and develop group dashboards and reports.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost control

Excel skills

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Data accuracy

Budgeting

Education

Master in Finance

Tools

ERP

HFM

Planning databases

Job description

As a member of the Corporate Financial Control team :

• Be the key point of referent for the Corporate costs control :
  • Partner with each main regalian functions (Finance, HR, Legal, Communication, Purchase, Corporate Industrial) to build the budget, forecast, monitor cost performance and explain key variances versus budget.
  • Act as a strong financial business partner to Corporate functions, challenging assumptions and spending levels, identifying risks and opportunities, and supporting the definition of corrective actions
  • Drive continuous improvement in Corporate cost controlling, enhancing processes, data quality and transparency to provide greater visibility on cost drivers and performance
  • Act as the key point of reference for Corporate cost performance towards top management, translating financial data into clear executive insights through monthly reporting to the CEO and CFO and twice-yearly presentations on cost evolution versus budget
• Contributes to the production and the analysis of the reporting, dashboards and reports issued on a monthly and quarterly basis du by the Financial Control team

Missions :

Team collaboration

• Collaborate with each Corporate head of function to understand cost developments,
• Collaborate with Corporate team to close the books monthly (define fixed cost accruals, fine tune analytic booking and forecast ...),

Budgeting & Consolidation

• Is responsible for the Corporate fixed costs follow up and analysis. Prepares management estimates and providing consolidation entries as necessary (accruals, bonus estimates etc.)
• Organize and prepare regular BRs on fixed costs expenses.

Business Performance Analysis

• Ensures the Group reporting's completeness, timeliness and accuracy (HFM / Planning databases) for actual, forecast and budget reporting,
• Is in charge of the preparation of dashboards & reports prepared at Group level,
• Communicate with Business Groups and units

Profile :

• Ability to combine strong analytical depth with a high-level business perspective: comfortable diving into detailed monthly cost analysis and hands-on accounting activities, while being able to step back, identify key insights and translate them into clear messages for top management.
• Highly rigorous and detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to data accuracy and reliability
• Very proactive, able to work on own initiative and prioritize accordingly
• A "take initiatives" and "continuous improvement" mindset
• Global Team Player
• Ability to both drive and motivate team members
• Good understanding of Financial and accounting processes
• Agility & "taste for figures / excel/ ERP ..."
• Service oriented to operations
• Excel skills ; is good at using spreadsheet & databases to analyze results
• Master degree in Finance (Business school) ,
• 3 years experiences in Audit or controlling

What drives us

At Nexans, purpose, excellence and people drive us. We electrify the future responsibly, with strong commitments to sustainability, innovation and inclusion. Empowering every employee to grow, contribute and create lasting impact worldwide. Join us in shaping a better tomorrow.