FP&A Lead — Board-Ready, AI-Driven Planning

Signal Processing Engineer (RF Processing & Analytics); Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Harmattan AI seeks an FP&A Lead to own group FP&A during a rapid growth phase. You will design the finance function architecture and serve as the reference point for numbers for the board, investors, lenders and ExCo, shaping insights from multi-entity data.

You will lead budgeting, reforecasting, consolidation and long-term planning, embedding AI into workflows while ensuring data security. Prior experience in scale-ups or defense sectors is valued.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in FP&A or finance leadership.
• Proven board-grade financial model with several scenarios.
• Experience running budget and reforecast cycles in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
• Comfort with ERP-driven reporting and automation.
• Hands-on use of AI in finance work with LLM-assisted analysis and reporting automation.
• Credibility with investors and lenders; ability to turn numbers into a narrative for an ExCo.
• Background in scale-ups or late-stage tech, or in industrial, aerospace or defense groups with contract-based economics.
• Hands-on, structured and rigorous, at ease in a high-growth, ambiguous setting.
• Strong quantitative or finance background; engineering or business school preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own group reporting to the board, investors and third parties; quarterly board pack and monthly investor updates.
• Build tailored models and figures for lenders, prospective investors and advisors.
• Architect the financial model as one source with several scenarios; runway and cash burn model with Treasury.
• Lead end-to-end planning: budget, reforecast, consolidation and long-term business plan.
• Provide management control across the group's entities with regional finance managers.
• Structure the finance data foundation: ERP data, close and reporting automation, KPI framework, FP&A calendar.
• Embed AI into FP&A workflows (analysis, reporting, forecasting) within data security framework.
• Model strategic scenarios such as new countries, M&A and cross-perimeter arbitrations.
• Lead and develop the FP&A team and align its roadmap with the finance strategy.

Skills

Team management

Financial modeling

Budgeting & forecasting

ERP reporting

AI in finance

Investor storytelling

Multi-entity / multi-currency

Data-driven decision making

Education

Engineering school or business school or equivalent

Job description

Harmattan AI seeks an FP&A Lead to own group FP&A during a rapid growth phase. You will design the finance function architecture and serve as the reference point for numbers for the board, investors, lenders and ExCo, shaping insights from multi-entity data.

You will lead budgeting, reforecasting, consolidation and long-term planning, embedding AI into workflows while ensuring data security. Prior experience in scale-ups or defense sectors is valued.