Regional Financial Control Senior Expert

CMA; Courbevoie; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CEVA Logistics, part of CMA CGM Group, seeks a Regional Financial Control Senior Expert to ensure IFRS-compliant financial reporting across Europe. You will partner with Country Finance teams and Shared Service Centers to drive policy harmonization, strengthen controls, and support strategic finance projects.

The role requires a Master’s degree in Finance and 10+ years of experience in financial control, with expertise in OneStream and JDE. Fluent English is essential.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• CPA, Chartered Accountant, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Financial Control, Audit, or Accounting within an international environment.
• Previous experience as a Financial Controller or Audit Manager within a multinational organization or international audit firm.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, financial reporting, consolidation principles, and internal controls.
• Experience working within complex, matrix, and multi-country organizations.
• Proven expertise in financial risk management, compliance, and governance.
• Strong project management skills with experience leading cross-functional and international initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of financial systems; experience with OneStream and JDE is highly desirable.
• Ability to support M&A integrations, finance transformations, and accounting harmonization projects.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to challenge, synthesize, and interpret complex financial information.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to influence senior finance leaders.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess, and mitigate financial, accounting, and reporting risks across the region.
• Ensure complex accounting treatments, estimates, judgments, and technical accounting matters are properly anticipated, documented, and accounted for.
• Develop and enforce a robust Balance Sheet review framework across the region.
• Support the harmonization of accounting policies and best practices.
• Ensure monthly OneStream reporting packages comply with Group accounting principles and reporting requirements.
• Guarantee the accuracy, reliability, and quality of financial information used by management and business stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with local statutory, tax, regulatory, and Group reporting obligations.
• Oversee the preparation and review of local and Group financial statements.
• Ensure a strong internal control framework is maintained across the region.
• Coordinate internal and external audits and monitor the implementation of corrective actions.
• Review technical accounting position papers before submission to Group Finance.
• Proactively identify and elevate compliance risks and control weaknesses.
• Collaborate closely with Cluster Heads of Finance, Regional Finance Heads, FP&A, Business Controlling, and Group Finance teams.
• Monitor and challenge Shared Service Center performance to ensure service quality and compliance.
• Support countries in resolving accounting and reporting issues related to outsourced finance processes.
• Lead and animate the regional Financial Control network, including monthly pre-closing reviews.
• Support finance transformation, digitalization, and process standardization initiatives.
• Participate in acquisitions, mergers, entity creations, and legal restructuring projects.
• Ensure new entities acquired through M&A are aligned with CEVA's IFRS standards and reporting requirements.
• Support major finance projects, organizational changes, and ad hoc strategic studies.

Skills

Fluent English

Project management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Finance or related field

CPA / Chartered Accountant

Tools

OneStream

JDE

Job description

Courbevoie - 7 All. de l'Arche, FRA

Regional Financial Control Senior Expert

Regional Financial Control Senior Expert

Req ID: 593033 Posting Start Date: 03/12/2026 Courbevoie - 7 All. de l'Arche, FRA CEVA Logistics Finance Permanent contract Full Time

CEVA Logistics provides global supply chain solutions to connect people, products, and providers all around the world. Present in 170+ countries and with more than 110,000 employees spread over 1,500 sites, we are proud to be a Top 5 global 3PL.

We believe that our employees are the key to our success. We want to engage and empower our diverse, global team to co-create value with our customers through our solutions in contract logistics and air, ocean, ground, and finished vehicle transport. That is why CEVA Logistics offers a dynamic and exceptional work environment that fosters personal growth, innovation, and continuous improvement.

At CEVA Logistics, weRise inMotion. Your career is always on the move,growingas fast and as far as your ambition takes you. Join a global team ofnearly 200nationalities, shaping the future of global trade, moving essential goods, forging new paths, and pushing boundaries to serve an ever-changing world. The pace is fast, the challenges are real, but the rewards are greater: growth, purpose, and the chance to make a meaningful impact. This is more than a job.It’s a journey on which you rise.

Your role

As a Regional Financial Control Expert, you will ensure the integrity, consistency, and compliance of financial reporting across CEVA Logistics' European region.

Acting as a key business partner to Country Finance teams, Cluster Finance Directors, Shared Service Centers, and Group Finance, you will drive accounting harmonization, strengthen financial controls, ensure compliance with IFRS and local GAAP, and support strategic projects including acquisitions, integrations, and finance transformation initiatives.

What are you going to do?

Financial Control & Risk Management

• Identify, assess, and mitigate financial, accounting, and reporting risks across the region.
• Ensure complex accounting treatments, estimates, judgments, and technical accounting matters are properly anticipated, documented, and accounted for.
• Develop and enforce a robust Balance Sheet review framework across the region.
• Support the harmonization of accounting policies and best practices.

Financial Reporting & Compliance

• Ensure monthly OneStream reporting packages comply with Group accounting principles and reporting requirements.
• Guarantee the accuracy, reliability, and quality of financial information used by management and business stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with local statutory, tax, regulatory, and Group reporting obligations.
• Oversee the preparation and review of local and Group financial statements.

Governance, Audit & Internal Controls

• Ensure a strong internal control framework is maintained across the region.
• Coordinate internal and external audits and monitor the implementation of corrective actions.
• Review technical accounting position papers before submission to Group Finance.
• Proactively identify and elevate compliance risks and control weaknesses.

Business Partnership & Shared Service Management

• Collaborate closely with Cluster Heads of Finance, Regional Finance Heads, FP&A, Business Controlling, and Group Finance teams.
• Monitor and challenge Shared Service Center performance to ensure service quality and compliance.
• Support countries in resolving accounting and reporting issues related to outsourced finance processes.
• Lead and animate the regional Financial Control network, including monthly pre-closing reviews.

Transformation, Projects & M&A

• Support finance transformation, digitalization, and process standardization initiatives.
• Participate in acquisitions, mergers, entity creations, and legal restructuring projects.
• Ensure new entities acquired through M&A are aligned with CEVA's IFRS standards and reporting requirements.
• Support major finance projects, organizational changes, and ad hoc strategic studies.

Who are we looking for?

• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• CPA, Chartered Accountant, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Financial Control, Audit, or Accounting within an international environment.
• Previous experience as a Financial Controller or Audit Manager within a multinational organization or international audit firm.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, financial reporting, consolidation principles, and internal controls.
• Experience working within complex, matrix, and multi-country organizations.
• Proven expertise in financial risk management, compliance, and governance.
• Strong project management skills with experience leading cross-functional and international initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of financial systems; experience with OneStream and JDE is highly desirable.
• Ability to support M&A integrations, finance transformations, and accounting harmonization projects.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to challenge, synthesize, and interpret complex financial information.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to influence senior finance leaders.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

As a global organization, and as part of the CMA CGM Group, diversity is critical to our business success; only when we can reflect the cultures, languages, behaviors and local knowledge of our customers, we can succeed. By employing people with different experiences and abilities, we expand our knowledge and increase our creativity and innovation.

Information at a Glance

Rise in motion with CMA CGM Group: where ambition meets opportunity.

Join a global team of nearly 200 nationalities, shaping the future of global trade, moving essential goods, forging new paths, and pushing boundaries to serve an ever-changing world.

The pace is fast, the challenges are real, but the rewards are greater: growth, purpose, and the chance to make a meaningful impact. This is more than a job. It’s a journey on which you rise.