Corporate Financial Controller

Nexans; Puteaux; Hybrid; EUR 78,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexans in Île-de-France near Puteaux is seeking a Corporate Financial Controller for a 6-month contract. You will be the key referent for corporate cost control, partnering with Finance, HR, Legal and other functions to build the budget and forecast, challenge spend, and explain variances to top management.

You will produce monthly and quarterly reports and dashboards, collaborate on closing the books, manage fixed-cost analysis, and support cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Master degree in Finance (Business school).
• 3 years experiences in Audit or controlling.
• Fluent in English.
• Excel skills; good at using spreadsheets and databases to analyze results.

Responsibilities

• Be the key point of referent for the Corporate costs control, partnering with Finance, HR, Legal, Communication, Purchase and Corporate Industrial to build the budget and forecast.
• Act as a strong financial business partner to Corporate functions, challenging assumptions and spending levels, identifying risks and opportunities, and supporting corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement in Corporate cost controlling, enhancing processes, data quality and transparency for visibility on cost drivers and performance.
• Translate financial data into clear executive insights through monthly reporting to 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 by Financial Control on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Collaborate with Corporate heads of function to understand cost developments and close the books monthly (fixed cost accruals, analytic bookings, forecast).
• Organize and prepare BRs on fixed costs expenses and consolidation entries as necessary (accruals, bonus estimates).
• Ensure Group reporting completeness, timeliness and accuracy (HFM / Planning databases) for actual, forecast and budget reporting; prepare dashboards & reports at Group level.
• Communicate with Business Groups and units.

Job description

Corporate Financial Controller - 6 months contract

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
• Works well under pressure dans strict deadlines

• 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
• Fluent in English