Group Financial Controller
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Group Financial Controller at Mistral.ai
📍 Paris
What You Will Do
- Conduct detailed reviews of accounting entries (journal entries, accruals, provisions, intercompany transactions, etc.) to ensure compliance with IFRS and French GAAP.
- Act as a critical partner to the Accounting Ops Lead, ensuring robustness in the close process and R2R outputs.
- Implement and enforce financial control frameworks, including segregation of duties, approval workflows, and reconciliation processes.
- Serve as the primary liaison with external auditors (Big 4 firms) during statutory audits, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of requests.
- Oversee the preparation of audit-ready financial statements for all Group entities, including consolidated and statutory reporting.
- Collaborate with the Tax team to ensure compliance with tax and regulatory obligations (VAT, corporate tax, payroll taxes, etc.).
- Review and approve balance sheet reconciliations, P&L analyses, and flux analyses to guarantee financial data integrity.
- Support the design and monitoring of key controls to prevent errors, fraud, or misstatements in financial reporting.
- Review management reporting packages, including variance analyses and ad-hoc financial analyses for senior leadership.
What We're Looking For
- At least 10 years of experience, including Big 4 audit experience, with a strong background in statutory audits, financial due diligence, and accounting reviews.
- Tech start-up/scale-up experience, with hands-on expertise in high-growth environments (preferably in AI, software, or deep tech).
- Deep expertise in IFRS, with a focus on financial reporting, consolidation, and compliance; expertise in French GAAP is a plus.
- Strong proficiency in SAP S4 and advanced Excel for financial analysis and reporting.
- Rigorous attention to detail, analytical rigor, and a zero-tolerance policy for errors in financial reporting.
- Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with auditors, internal control teams, and senior leadership.
- Proactive and solution-oriented mindset to identify risks and implement corrective actions.
- Fluent in English; French is a plus.
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