Head of Financial Controller

France

Remote

Senior

Full Time

financial controlleraccountingfinance leadershipmulti-entity accountinginternal controlsremote-firstfast-growing company

Requirements

•10+ years in accounting roles including senior/lead or controller-level experience
•Strong knowledge of French accounting standards
•Exposure to multi-GAAP/consolidation environments
•Proven ability to build processes and internal controls from scratch in a fast-growing or scaling environment
•Comfortable operating with high autonomy and ambiguity
•Prior people management experience

•Own the full accounting function across Filigran's entities including revenue recognition, consolidation, monthly and year-end close, and internal controls
•Build the infrastructure, controls, and processes needed to support a fast-scaling, multi-entity, international organization
•Own the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of all financial transactions across Filigran entities
•Continuously improve a scalable monthly/quarterly close process
•Ensure revenue recognition is correctly applied and documented
•Lead consolidation across Filigran's growing international entity structure including new entity set-ups
•Partner with the VP of Finance on transfer pricing, inter company transactions, and cross-border compliance matters
•Perform ongoing gap analyses of accounting processes and design and implement internal controls and policies
•Manage the yearly financial audit end-to-end and act as primary point of contact for auditors
•Own the relationship with the external accounting firm
•Identify opportunities to automate and streamline accounting workflows
•Build documentation to make the accounting function auditable and transferable
•Act as a thought partner to the VP of Finance on technical accounting matters and process design
•Manage and grow a team of general accountants
•Support ad hoc business requests including finance topics adjacent to accounting