Financial Controller (French Perimeter)

Portage Ventures GP Inc.; Paris; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote work flexibility

Stimulating environment and perks

Opportunity for personal growth

Résumé du poste

Portage Ventures GP Inc. is looking for an experienced finance professional to manage financial controlling in Paris, France. This role involves ownership of the financial reporting for French entities, ensuring accuracy and driving improvements in financial processes. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience with French accounting standards, fluency in both French and English, and strong analytical skills. The position offers a hybrid work model and opportunities for professional growth within the finance team.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience with French accounting standards.
• Background in a top audit firm and/or fast-paced scale-up is preferred.
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail.
• Comfortable working with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Responsabilités

• Own financial reporting, including monthly P&L and Balance Sheet reviews.
• Ensure accuracy and readiness of financial data for scrutiny.
• Challenging and improving financial processes.
• Partner with teams to leverage financial data for decision making.
• Contribute to team scaling through hiring and onboarding.

Connaissances

Financial expertise

Fluent in English and French

Analytical skills

Ability to work independently

Familiarity with insurance accounting

Outils

Basic SQL knowledge

Description du poste

Location

Paris, France; Lyon, France; Marseille, France; Bordeaux, France

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Finance & Strategy

You. Better. With Alan.

Alan is building a vertically integrated health partner that unites insurance and smart healthcare delivery into one seamless system. Our vision is to make prevention the new norm of care for all.

Our mission: Help people live in good health to 100 while helping employers feel proud, turning health benefits from a cost centre into their most valuable investment.

By connecting all aspects of care (private, public, and direct to consumer) we create the most member-centric healthcare experience, reducing claims costs while generating new monetization opportunities.

We partner with tens of thousands of companies across France Spain Belgium and Canada, serving over a million members.

How we work: our Leadership Principles

• Mission is the Boss — We think long-term and are methodical optimists who take risks, seeking our mission's success above all else.
• Distributed Ownership — Accountable enlightened despots: everyone owns their decisions and results.
• Radical Transparency — All information is accessible and written-first, so everyone can make the best decisions asynchronously.
• Always Growing — Direct, positive, and caring feedback, combined with self-growth ownership.

Finance community at Alan

Finance & Strategy exists to enable better decisions, faster, at every level of the company, in a regulated, diverse and ever changing business.

We succeed when ambitious goals become credible plans, when strategic bets are grounded in financial reality, and when the entire company (not just Finance!) speaks the language of performance.

We set the right ambition, we monitor whether we're getting there, and we raise our hand when something needs to change.

We are not record-keepers. We are builders, partners, and challengers. We are looking for people who want to build, support decision making processes and challenge the status quo.

The core responsibilities of the Finance & Strategy community are:

• Strategy & Planning: steers Alan's financial performance through business planning, financial and operational monitoring, investor relations, financing and M&A
• Financial Reporting: is the steward of Alan's financial truth, ensuring that we produce accurate, timely financial data. It owns the reporting to all key stakeholders (board, leadership team, tax authorities, and regulators like the ACPR) and ensures that financial data is the single, uncontested source of truth for the company's performance.
• Finance Data and Operations: Build and own the core finance data and tooling infrastructure (models, pipelines, and concepts that connect business operations to financial reality). This is where Finance meets product thinking
• Functional poles with end-to-end ownership of their domain: Treasury, Procurement

Your mission

We are looking for a forward-thinking, experienced finance professional to own the financial controlling of Alan's French entities.

You will be part of our Financial Controlling team, within Financial Reporting - the feedback engine of our finance system. Your job is to own the numbers. You are not just reporting figures: you are the person who truly understands what they mean and drives action from them.

You will work in full autonomy, in close collaboration with our Financial Data, Finance Strategy, and operational teams, serving as the bridge between financial figures and the business.

What you will do

The goal is to build the financial controlling function in France. That means defining what dashboards you need & writing the specs to drive automation.

This is a rare opportunity to shape how financial controlling works at a fast-scaling company by:

• Owning the financial reporting of your entities, including monthly P&L and Balance Sheet reviews, variance analysis, commentary and audit readiness
• Ensuring figures are accurate, well-documented and always ready for scrutiny: you will own the organization of the finance function in these subsidiaries and the financial integration of potential acquired companies
• Challenging, improving and automating financial processes, from writing controlling specifications for our Financial Data team to identifying improvement points in the monthly reporting cycle and driving concrete improvements
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure financial data is well understood and leveraged for decision-making, and owning specific financial streams transversally across geographies
• Contributing to scaling the team, including participating in hiring and onboarding future team members

Qualifications

• Financial expertise: at least 5 years of experience of French accounting standards and how financial statements work; background in a top audit firm and/or a fast-paced scale-up. Familiarity with consolidation and process automation are a bonus.
• Languages: Fluent in both English and French.
• Analytical mindset: Strong analytical skills with the ability to maintain a holistic view while staying rigorous at the detail level. Basic SQL or AI tools knowledge is a bonus.
• Soft skills: Rigorous, hands-on and highly organized. Critical thinker who comes with concrete proposals. Comfortable working with both finance and non-finance stakeholders. Strong ability to work autonomously, move forward independently and make clear decisions even in ambiguous situations.
• Familiarity with insurance accounting or regulated financial entities is a strong plus.

For this role we are looking to hire within the C1-D level range.

How we work

• Location: You must be legally eligible to work from France.
• Remote work: We offer remote work flexibility, but we value in-person collaboration

Important note: we hire people, not roles.

If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply, as it can only bring learnings or success.

If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements?

Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist. We'll be thrilled to receive your application!

You want to know more about Alan?

• Perks & Benefits: Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers.
• A strong culture: People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work