Market Controller and Fucntion Controller

Europcar Mobility Group; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Europcar Mobility Group in Paris/Madrid seeks a Market Controller & Function Controller to drive financial analysis and business partnering across the region.

The role focuses on budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning, ensuring accuracy of P&L and balance sheet, and delivering actionable insights for management decisions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ finance experience preferably including international experience in finance support, business or operations partnership.
• International external auditors: strong financial background, understanding the business and the market perspective are key requirements for the role.
• Strong understanding of full P&L management, financial analysis, and business performance drivers
• Group FP&A, Commercial Finance, Country head of controlling, RCM managers, Senior Accountant

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate financial and non-financial performance analysis at country/cluster level to support monthly reviews.
• Design, plan and communicate the budget, forecast and 5-year plan for the country.
• Ensure country P&L, Balance Sheet and cash accuracy with corrective actions for deviations.
• Act as business partner for the region by challenging business decisions with fact-based support and reviews.
• Align with GEC members and country CFOs to optimize processes and risk management.
• Lead finance cycle implementation and provide insights to steer the business.
• Develop and improve reporting tools, dashboards, and controlling processes.

Skills

Financial analysis

P&L management

Forecasting

Business partnering

Data-driven

Education

Finance degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Google Sheets

Consolidation tools

Job description

Position Title: Market Controller & Function Controller

REPORT TO: Pilar Hernández

Requirements

Hybrid

• Paris
• Madrid

Time type: Vollzeit

MAIN OBJECTIVES

• Accurate, timely and insightful financial and non-financial performance analysis at country/cluster level to facilitate monthly country reviews. Monitor and analyze financial performance, trends, and variances.
• Design, plan and communicate the budget, forecast and 5 years plan for the country in close collaboration with the Group FP&A defined finance cycle in the relevant region
• Ensure country P&L, Balance-sheet and cash accuracy in order to derive corrective actions in case of deviations against the agreed country performance targets
• Act as business partner for the region by challenging business decisions, assumptions, through fact based support and rigorous reviews.
• Ensure Group standardization, harmonization, processes and KPIs and implemented within the region and facilitate exchange of good practice among the countries. Ensure financial accuracy, consistency, and compliance with internal policies
• Align with relevant GEC members, functional heads, and countries CFOs/Head of Controlling to continuously optimize the processes and to ensure proper financial control and risk management within the region
• Act as business partner for the Group function being the link with finance and countries. Challenging business decisions, assumptions, through fact based support and rigorous reviews and provide financial insights to better steer the business.

MAJORS AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

• Month end closing – full P&L and Balance sheet analysis, overview of KPI, R&O and variance analysis. Drive monthly closing, forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning processes
• Closely working with local controllers/CFOs as business partner to support decision making within the region.
• Provide clear visibility on KPIs, profitability, Balance Sheet, and Operating Free Cash Flow (OFCF) performance.
• Playing an active role in major project and transformation in initiatives within the countries by identifying risks and opportunities and proactively support decision‑making
• Standing member of country BPR, responsible for the deck completeness, analysis and decisions tracking and propose new insights and improvements of the deck to better steer business
• Business case evaluation for relevant project/initiatives within the region / Function in close collaboration with Strategy team and other areas.
• Ensure the finance cycle implementation (Budget, Forecast and 5-year plan) supervision for the region
• Gather and analyze BPR material and make sure decisions are formalized and tracked
• Closely working with Group FP&A to ensure compliance with finance cycle, method, processes and deadlines
• Lead a godfather-topic from some specific area of expertise: Risk Management, Procurement, Pricing, Ops,...
• Entry point for all HQ functions for the region finance relevant topics, more specifically to the functional area assigned by acting as finance business partner.
• Ensure financial accuracy, consistency, and compliance with internal policies
• Challenge business assumptions and support strategic initiatives with financial analysis
• Develop and improve reporting tools, dashboards, and controlling processes

EDUCATION LEVEL

University degree, preferably in Finance

LANGUAGES

English, Fluent. French and Spanish will be valuable

Requirements and Previous experience

• Minimum 5 years’ finance experience preferably including international experience in finance support, business or operations partnership or international external auditors: strong financial background, understanding the business and the market perspective are key requirements for the role.
• Strong understanding of full P&L management, financial analysis, and business performance drivers
• Group FP&A, Commercial Finance, Country head of controlling, RCM managers, Senior Accountant

Personal characteristics

• Analytical and data-driven
• Capacity to make the link between strategic orientation of the Group and country business decisions
• Ability to analyze and synthesize data
• Ability to present complex information to all level of management
• Resilient, proactive, and comfortable working under pressure and tight deadlines
• Ability to work in a team but also ability to manage complexity, prioritize effectively, and work independently.
• Excel, PowerPoint, google sheet, google slide
• Consolidation and reporting tools
• Highly committed, motivated, and eager to grow within an ambitious organization