Senior FP&A Manager
Qonto
Operations
Paris, France
Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2023
Our mission? Creating the finance solution that energizes SMEs and freelancers, so they can achieve more. We simplify everything from everyday banking to bookkeeping and spend management. At Qonto, we’re passionate about creating the best product, so if you’re looking for an ambitious team that’s revolutionizing an old-fashioned industry, get in touch!
Our journey: Alexandre and Steve launched Qonto in July 2017. Since then, the team has earned the trust of more than 400,000 customers and opened offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Barcelona. Last summer, we joined forces with Penta, a market leader based in Berlin and Belgrade, forming a united team of 1,300 Qontoers. We also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!
Our values:
Ambition | We tackle big challenges. No matter what.
Teamwork | We create momentum by working together, at the same speed.
Mastery | We pursue excellence through continuous learning. We face challenges with humility. Every day.
Integrity | We're open. We're honest. And we earn the trust of our clients and each other.
You can find out more about the Qonto Way here.
Our beliefs: Our goal at Qonto is to create a warm and welcoming environment where individuals from all walks of life can truly thrive. We've gone above and beyond to ensure that every applicant is evaluated solely based on their skills and potential, rather than their gender, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, or any other irrelevant factor. Our team consists of 49% international individuals, with 44% women and 20% parents. With this diversity, we are a powerful force! Join us in our mission to build a workplace that celebrates diversity and embraces individuality. Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination-free hiring process.
Our career track: At Qonto, we cherish your unique skills, breaking away from conventional labels like "senior" or "director," and instead, offering personalized career tracks and expertise levels from 1 to 9 that truly celebrate your impact!
As Senior FP&A Manager, you will report in to the Lead FP&A Central Functions and will act as a true financial business partners to the operational teams to support our business performance while implementing effective and scalable cost control practices.
If you're ready to go deep working on a rewarding set of challenges and if you've got the finance skills, passion, and a strong team mentality - read on and get in touch!
👩💻🧑💻 As Senior FP&A Manager at Qonto, this is what you will do:
• Business partnering: Work closely with operational teams (eg. People, Corporate, Risk & Compliance), drive operating reporting cadence, develop financial insights and apply business judgment to help drive Qonto’s margins. To that end, you will build processes and dedicated dashboards from scratch.
• Reporting: Improve the accuracy and reliability of our financial information through taking part in Qonto’s FP&A processes, including monthly closing and forecast, analytical allocations, management reporting, variance analysis, with a special focus on our cost structure and notably on the payroll and headcount topics.
• Financial planning: Take part in the annual and bi-annual budget, and perform variance analysis on the P&L lines and scope you are in charge of.
• Analysis: Perform ad-hoc financial analysis on different topics (e.g. deep dive on key KPIs, etc.)
🤔What you'll can expect
• To work closely with both Qonto's Finance Team and Operational Teams and to be part of our strategy by making Qonto grow
• To contribute to the development of the Finance function in one of the most promising European scale-ups
• To work in a fast-paced environment with a strong focus on quality (click here to know more)
🤝 About your future manager
• Their path: You will directly report to Nathalie, our FP&A Director. She has started her career in a Big 4 and then switched to corporate where she hold several FP&A positions (Corporate, Business Partners, Revenue) in Tech and Entertainment companies such as Criteo, Ubisoft, Solocal and Activision-Blizzard. Nathalie has joined Qonto one year ago and is leading the FP&A team, composed by 7 talented people
• What they can bring to you: Nathalie will bring her expertise in fast growing and business transformation companies. She will support you in developing your department and your team. She will give you all the keys to master your topics and continuously make you grow and learn.
🏅About You
• Experience: you have at least 5+ years of experience in FP&A or Financial Controlling, preferably in a fast-paced organisation with a good knowledge of payroll topics
• Self-starter: you take initiatives and you are intellectually agile, comfortable with creating processes and dashboards from scratch.
• Communication: you are a real team player and have excellent communication skills with ability to align various stakeholders among the company.
• Mastery: you are fully proficient in Excel and have strong financial modelling skills. You know how to use data to build powerful insights and strategies.
• Languages: you are fluent in French and English, other European languages (German, Italian, Spanish) are a plus.
🎁 Perks
A laptop. An inclusive work environment. A tailor-made career track. And so much more to help you succeed.
- A central fully-renovated building in Paris with WeWork services
- Monthly team events
- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for
- 25 days of paid leave + 5 Qonto days or 25 days of paid leave + 10 RTT +/-
- Alan health insurance, Moka Care to take care of your mental health, and Gymlib for sports and wellness activities
- A Swile lunch card: 50% covered
- A progressive parenthood policy as part of our commitment to the Parental Act (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners
💪 Our hiring process:
- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
- A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like
We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.
On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞
Thank you for considering joining Qonto. We cannot wait to learn more about you!
One last thing. We recently raised 486M€ in our Series D to ensure we keep growing safely, despite the current economic environment looking a bit gloomy. We revealed our plans for the future here.
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