Financial Controller | English

Business partnering and driving value-creating initiatives across commercial and operating teams
Develop and control of Inventory and Margins processes / reporting / accounting impacts
Development, maintenance and key user of group reporting tools (PBI, Emasphère, Odoo), Finance IT
Reporting, analysis, partnering, closing

Preparation of monthly financial reporting decks: financial reporting consolidation, variance analysis, bank covenants, coordination of explanations with the accounting teams, management reviews and questions.
Responsible for the Forecasting, Budgeting processes (accounting teams to Emasphère) and forecasting
Help management further develop KPIs & reporting along business requests, including margins / profitability / cash flows / Balance Sheets analysis
Business partnering on strategic projects across business lines including but not limited to supply chain optimization initiatives and pricing strategy
Support company’s international expansion and investments across the business and regions

Financial reporting tools, key user

Get trained on those 2 solutions, with the aim to maintain and further develop their capabilities
Develop and maintain, help improve reports / KPI’s created in those systems
Liaise with IT and external consultants in order to keep data integrity into the systems
Be comfortable in using different sources of data for integer reporting, and in helping automating data interfaces to our key financial reporting tools
Position himself over time as the group Key User for finance reporting tools
Become an Odoo finance key user.
Assistance to the CFO and Chief Accounting Officer

Participate in process improvements (systems or other) impacting group finance and accounting teams
Support Chief Accounting Officer and accounting teams during month end process
Monthly consolidation of accounts in Emasphère
Provide support during the annual audit of the group across legal entities
Support the CFO and Chief Accounting Officer in coordinating outside consultants, in
The follow up of each affiliate’s official annual accounts / tax declarations processes
Support CFO in his other responsibilities, including Tax structuring, Legal, IT, Facility related matters

Financial management (Financial Planning & Analysis), audit, controlling or M&A/ Corporate finance experience of 7+years, with a focus on data management, financial reporting and stakeholder support

Proficiency in (including ability to maintain or act as internal expert in) digital finance tools such as Power BI, Emasphère, ERP Power BI,
An Excel master, ideally Power BI and Emasphere intimate, Odoo knowledge a plus
Ability to easily interact with local accounting teams, management, board members, external consultants
Proficiency in French and English
Autonomy, sense of initiative, self-starter, hands-on, ability to work remotely from management
Local internal and external accounting teams and IT
Odoo implementation teams, internal and external
Business and operations teams across the company
Baobab Collection management team, including CEO, Executive Committee members, CFO, and Chief Accounting Officer
Outside consultants, Emasphère, Power BI consultants, Odoo / other ERPs support teams

OPEN TO FREELANCE STATUS