France Country Controller (Senior Manager)

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The country controller is responsible for supporting and reviewing financial reporting as well as monitoring and supporting overall compliance in their assigned jurisdiction. This individual will be an experienced accounting professional with strong corporate finance skills and with knowledge and exposure to tax and corporate governance topics. This individual must have a demonstrated ability to collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders in a rapidly evolving business.  as well as a project management skillset.The country controller is responsible for:

•  monitoring and ensuring compliance in the areas of accounting and reporting, tax and corporate governance,
• ensuring accurate financial statements are prepared and approved by the board and relevant governance bodies,
• providing support to business partners and
• identifying process enhancements and operating margin improvements initiatives.

Core Responsibilities:
External reporting

• Oversight of the preparation and audit of the local financial statements and notes, including:
  • Participate in reviews with local EY team;
  • Review and sign off on unrecorded adjustments;
  • Review of margin reconciliation;
  • Review Profit Sharing calculation;
  • Review of financial statements and notes and other management reports if applicable;
  • Preparation of executive summary;
  • Review of YoY variance analysis.
• Review technical accounting memos and new disclosures;
• Monitor the accuracy and timely filing of local FS and Notes and all other relevant reporting;
• Support director in review of flux analysis and financial statements;
• Oversight of ad hoc requests received from external parties, such as government authorities (statistics/surveys/ratings) or any other official bodies.

Compliance and governance

• Actively monitor risks and obligations associated with the entity, document and take actions to nullify the risk and implement or change processes to ensure compliance:
  • Monitor and communicate to relevant RPO and business partners changes and new requirements;
  • Collaborate with relevant RPO and business partners to implement the changes;
  • Prepare or review technical accounting memos in respect to local GAAP in relation to new business flow, new accounting standard, M&A etc;
  • Ensure new local GAAP accounting standards and regulations are appropriately actioned and reflected in our Accounts, FS and reporting;
  • Manage compliance with corporate governance requirements, working closely with legal and other stakeholders in order to meet these requirements;
  • Participate in the documentation of the BDSE
• Report to the works council and other governance mechanisms;
• Support local risk assessment mapping and reviews;
• Ensure appropriate documentation is in place for local compliance framework;
• Monitor tax related filing obligations;
• Monitor ESG obligations and work with ESG team to ensure compliance;
• Provide assurance to directors on statements made to auditors as part of due diligence procedures.

Business partnering

• Business partnering with key stakeholders: tax (including transfer pricing), legal, financial planning and the business to support their needs, reduce costs and create efficiencies while not compromising compliance;
• Represent controllership and bring coherent jurisdictional perspective on cross functional forums;
• Support the directors fulfillment of their and the entity's’ duties;
• Attend and present financial information to Directors and works council;
• Prepare FAQ’s with public relations team to support media interest in the release of financial statements  and support answers to press queries;
• Support tax audits and any other discussions with tax authorities;
• Support customer deals and bids