Chief Financial Officer

Context

250+ local authorities rely on Vizzia to keep their streets cleaner and safer - and the ambition is to scale well beyond that, in France and internationally. Getting there turns finance into a genuine engine for decisions: every major arbitrage - accelerating a lever, opening or closing a market, pricing a product, financing client contracts - needs to be backed by clear numbers.

We're looking for a CFO to own the finance function end to end and shape Vizzia's financial trajectory: capital structure, financing levers, and the value-creation path, with M&A optionality down the line. You'll hold a full seat on the COMEX and be a real business partner to the leadership team on the calls that decide where Vizzia goes next. The finance function is still being built - the current team is two people (accounting + FP&A) and will grow with the business.

This is a build role as much as a steering one, with meaningful equity in a company whose value you'll directly help create. There's a lot to build from the ground up, and it's demanding - for the right person, that's exactly the appeal.

What You'll Do

• Be a business partner to the COMEX
• Run scenarios that let the leadership team make real calls: opening or holding back on a market (e.g. international expansion), accelerating a growth lever, or reshaping the operating model
• Bring the financial read on strategic trade-offs - impacts, what's gained, what's lost - and hold a clear point of view, including on whether to keep or exit a given market
• Give the COMEX the keys to decide, without blocking initiatives in a company that takes deliberate risks
• Own the financing and capital levers
• Activate financial levers most CFOs never touch: financing client contracts through debt over longer engagements, outsourcing lower-margin operations where it makes sense
• Review supplier contracts (including cloud/AWS spend as it grows) and push client contracts toward longer commitments
• Shape the capital structure and the value-creation path, keeping M&A optionality open
• Build the financial system and lead the team
• Produce clean, clear monthly reporting and put automation in place so the close doesn't mean redoing manual work every month
• Set up the reporting and modelling foundations (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) the company can rely on to decide
• Manage the current team (accounting + FP&A), make each person autonomous on their scope, and scale it as complexity grows
• Own Vizzia's fundraising strategy
• Get the company fundraise-ready and pilot eventual rounds in good conditions
• Advise on the amount, the partners, and the negotiations, with an investor-ready data room

What Success Looks Like In 12 Months

• Monthly reporting is clean, clear and automated - no more redoing the close by hand each month
• The finance team runs autonomously, each person owning their scope
• You're an active business partner at the COMEX, turning numbers into decisions the leadership team acts on
• The financing levers and data are in place to pilot whatever comes next

Who You Are

• You have deep, hands-on financial expertise: you've built reporting, modelling and close processes yourself, not just supervised them, and you can explain the "how", not only the "what".
• You've worked in a business with genuinely complex flows: working capital, inventory, purchasing - manufacturing, assembly or deployment-heavy operations.
• You've been through scale-up hyper-growth, where processes change every few months and you have to lead the change rather than wait for things to settle.
• You understand the SaaS business and its metrics well.
• You've prepared and piloted a fundraise, and can advise on amount, partners and negotiations.
• You communicate clearly, take a position and hold it at exec level, without blocking every initiative in a company that takes deliberate risks.

An appetite for hardware or operations-heavy businesses is a plus, not a requirement. This role is based in Paris with near full-time office presence (COMEX norm). It's demanding, with a lot still to build - and that's the point: we're looking for someone who wants exactly that.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary ranging between 130K€ and 170K€ (fixed + variable)
• Contrat cadre and RTT (between 8 and 12 days per year depending on public holidays)
• A Mac or PC depending on your preferences
• BSPCE
• 60% coverage of meal vouchers worth €9 per worked day
• Sustainable mobility allowance
• Mutuelle (Alan)
• Offices located in central Paris (9th arrondissement)
• Annual offsite with the whole team and plenty of company events

If you've read this far, you're probably very interested in the role and/or Vizzia. We'd like to hear from you even if you feel you don't check every box.