Financial Internal Controller EM

About ENGIE and Supply & Energy Management:

ENGIE, a global leader in low‑carbon energy and services, relies on its Global Business Unit Supply & Energy Management (GBU S&EM) to provide reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy to all its customers. This strategic unit optimizes the Group’s and clients’ production assets and designs tailored energy solutions for our 200,000 professional clients and 15 million consumers.

The Global Business Unit Supply & Energy Management leverages ENGIE’s assets to deliver secure and sustainable energy to its B2B and B2C customers. It uses its expertise in energy management to provide decarbonized electricity 24/7.

Context

ENGIE's internal control system is designed to provide ENGIE governance with reasonable assurance with regard to the following objectives:

• Correct execution and optimization of operations;
• Reliability of accounting and financial information;
• Compliance with applicable laws and regulations and compliance with internal policies.

Within SEM GBU The Energy Management business unit maximizes the value of nearly 60 GW of generation assets belonging to ENGIE and its customers, ensuring a constant balance between energy demand and available resources. As the Group's interface with wholesale markets, Energy Management is a key player in the fields of electricity, natural gas, LNG, biomethane, biomass, and environmental products. It also ensures the supply of gas and electricity for ENGIE and its customers, enabling B2B and B2C entities to offer reliable and competitive energy. Energy management activities are spread across 17 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia‑Pacific, grouped into 15 business platforms (BPs).

Within Finance team, the Energy Management internal controller is leading the 2nd line of defense over Finance processes and ICFR (Internal Control over financial reporting), including Commodity management and sales processes. He/she collaborates with non‑finance leaders contributing to ICFR or managing fraud risk (such as Ethic & Compliance, Procurement or IT). He/she implements the group's policy and best practices, including the adoption of automated controls.

Missions

You will join a team of two internal controllers under the supervision of a senior internal controller.

Your responsibilities will mainly involve activities related to the INCOME campaign. You will also work as a backup for the internal controller responsible for Segregation of Duties activities.

INCOME ACTIVITIES

Steers the yearly internal control campaign over Central Energy Management perimeter (Business Platforms CWE):

• Checks the scope of controls is aligned with Group guidance and Senior Energy Management internal controller expectations;
• Ensures Business Process Owners (BPOs, 1st line of defense) adopt the Group controls framework, including automated controls, and self‑evaluate effectiveness with the expected quality;
• Tests the effectiveness of self‑assessments according to assurance plan;
• Develops an opinion over internal control effectiveness, and reports main deficiencies to the Senior Energy Management internal controller and the BP CWE CFOs;
• Monitors the deployment of BPOs action plan to remediate deficiencies identified;
• Prepares the annual internal control synthesis and attestation letter (covering both Finance and non‑Finance) and organizes sign off;
• Contributes to share his/her knowledge with internal controllers over Energy Management activities (community of practice) across geographies: sharing of business information, experiences, best practices;
• Acts as a business partner and advisor for Energy Management management to reach operational excellence targets (0 Fraud, 0 Material Weakness) consistently with Energy Management strategy;
• Analyzes and follows up internal control incidents with BPOs in a logic of continuous improvement and alerts the senior internal controller, CFO and local management on key deficiencies and risks;
• Participates to Project Management transformation activities.

SOD ACTIVITIES

Contributes, in coordination with the Energy Management Financial Internal Controller – Segregation of Duties responsible, to monitor Segregation of Duties activities via RSA and accounting ERP systems including SAP GRC, for critical applications common to Energy Management and B2B activities (such as Orchestrade or GemForce), based on the principle Getting clean and Staying clean.

The time allocation between the different areas may be subject to change.

Main Interactions

• Senior Energy Management financial internal controller
• BP CWE Business Process Owner / Internal Control Coordinator
• Operational Risk
• Enterprise Risk Managers in Risk Control team, Ethics/compliance/privacy officers, internal auditors, IT teams

Required profile

• Senior in Finance: Min 5 years of experience in accounting and / or controlling /Back office of trading activities acquired in an audit firm or other
• Process and system analyse: Ability to design and analyse processes and systems, perform investigations and work with IT.
• Assertive and fact based: ability to challenge local teams and formulate independent opinions, relying on tangible evidence
• Pragmatic and risk based: Ability to propose effective and pragmatic solutions to mitigate risk.
• Managerial communication: Ability to synthesize information and formalize presentations
• Leadership & Collaboration: Ability to establish and maintain positive and constructive interpersonal relationships
• Position based in Paris with occasional travel expected within Euro

Diversity & Inclusion

At ENGIE S&EM, we are committed to fostering a gender‑neutral and inclusive environment where everyone’s potential can thrive. All our positions are open to people with disabilities. If you need any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please inform your recruiter — we will be happy to support you.

Business Unit

Supply & Energy Management

Division

EM FINANCE

Legal Entity

ENGIE

Company Name

Supply and Energy Management