Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, you will be responsible for controlling, and coordinating the accounts of several Group companies.
To ensure the production of the accounts, the position covers the communication of closing options to the various third parties (External accounting firm, local tax experts, etc.) and the monitoring of audits.
You will also be responsible for supervising monthly and quarterly accounting closures, helping on the analysis of consolidated management reportings, and optimising the companies' financial and accounting processes.
As part of the monthly, quarterly, and annual closings, you will be in charge of the following operations in particular:
Audits and compliance:
- Ensuring, within the scope concerned, that the statutory accounts are issued on time in accordance with the rules in force in the countries concerned, and that the statutory auditors' assignments run smoothly until the audit reports are issued.
- Guarantees statutory accounting and compliance with Group processes
Stakeholders’ coordination :
- Acting as the point of reference for accounting and tax instructions with other Group entities and various partners (analysis, arbitration)
- Acting as the main point of contact between the various players involved in finance, support Paris Headquarter projects by being the entrance point for the country
- Acting as the technical contact for accounting and financial projects (providing expertise, studying the impact on the accounts, supporting operations on building the budget and forecast, etc.)
- Contribute to financial and operational due diligence (mergers, asset disposals, operational restructuring of hotels, etc.).
- Carrying out analytical work in support of consolidation and coordinating the production of quarterly consolidation reports by the French international subsidiaries
- Active support in operational assumptions for hotels & Regional Offices in terms of costs optimization & cost controlling
Control and monitoring
- To produce the financial statements required for the consolidated management reporting of our French and international subsidiaries (head offices and hotels)
- Supervising monthly closings (closing options, arbitrations, coordination, integration of reporting and analysis of figures in partnership with management control) and participating in analyses of variations (vs. budget, rolling forecast or N-1)
- Analysing bank reconciliation amounts
- Monthly justification of balance sheet accounts and P&L up to net income
- Ensuring that fixed assets are monitored in the accounts and that the Intercompany accounts are checked monthly
Optimisation
- Helping to optimise the accounting organisation and improve accounting processes for French and local Regional Offices and hotels
- Translate business needs into accounting processes
- Propose solutions to improve these same processes