Financial Control Manager

CMA CGM; Marseille; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned finance professional to join their Financial Control Department in Marseille. This role involves ensuring the quality and reliability of financial information across global shared service centers. You will be instrumental in developing accounting processes, participating in ERP migrations, and enhancing financial internal controls. The ideal candidate has a Master’s degree in finance, extensive experience in technical accounting, and fluency in English. If you thrive in a dynamic international environment and are ready to contribute to a leading organization, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technical accounting and finance, ideally in an audit firm.
• Strong autonomy and synthesis skills, comfortable in problem-solving.

Responsabilités

• Monitor production of monthly accounts and ensure quality control.
• Participate in ERP migrations and coordinate actions among stakeholders.

Connaissances

Technical Accounting

Financial Analysis

Project Management

Problem-Solving

Fluent English

Formation

Master’s Degree in Finance

Outils

SAP

SAGE

Oracle

Description du poste

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ID: 547152

Location:

Marseille, FR

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

YOUR ROLE

Within the Group's Financial Control Department, you are responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and consistency of the financial information produced by the Group's agencies and subsidiaries managed in our internal shared service centers (GBS), in compliance with the account closing schedules.

You participate in the development and strengthening of the accounting processes of these subsidiaries and the associated financial internal control.

You interact daily with the management and teams of our accounting shared service centers (GBS), particularly in India, Lebanon, and China.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

• Monitor the production of the monthly accounts of the entities managed in GBS in coordination with the GBS Country Managers, the GBS Procure To Pay (PtP), Order To Cash (OtC), and Record To Report (RtR) teams, as well as the local teams.
• Control the quality of the production of the monthly accounts of the entities managed in GBS: analytical reviews, accounting review files and balance sheet reconciliations, points of attention, and follow-up of corrective actions.
• Ensure the coordination and proper follow-up of requests with the GBS teams during statutory audits3.
• Participate in the efficient implementation of Procure To Pay (PtP), Order To Cash (OtC), and Record To Report (RtR) accounting procedures and processes in our GBS. Ensure their proper application.
• Participate in the optimal organization of our financial GBS and the constant improvement of the Group Core Model.
• Participate in the accounting and financial transition of our autonomous subsidiaries within the group to our GBS.
• Participate in ERP migrations for entities managed in GBS (decommission of Oracle and implementation of SAP or SAGE) and coordinate actions between the various stakeholders (subsidiaries, GBS team, project team...), particularly in problem resolution.
• Participate in the definition of relevant KPIs and ensure their monitoring.
• Ensure the homogeneity of accounting processes between the different GBS centers of the Group.
• Participate in strengthening financial internal control in our GBS.
• Ensure proper coordination between the various finance departments at headquarters and GBS management.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Graduated with a Master’s degree in finance, you have at least 10 years of experience in technical accounting and finance ideally acquired in an audit firm (Big 4), and experience within a large international group.
• Recognized for your rigor, proactivity, and commitment, you are up to work in a large international group in constant evolution.
• You demonstrate autonomy, synthesis skills, and are comfortable in problem-solving.
• You know how to mobilize in project mode within a complex organization and have proven ability to work in a matrix model, maintaining relationships with key partners at various levels.
• You have solid accounting and financial expertise, and compliance of the accounts makes sense to you.
• Your English is fluent, as exchanges with our GBS centers are exclusively in English.
• Very regular travel to our GBS centers is to be expected.