Financial Planning Analyst

As part of the FP&A Team and with a solid foundation in accounting , your responsibilities will include:

1. Business reviews:

The FP&A Department is in charge of issuing and animating a reporting for each of the key product lines of Questel. Those sessions gather Sales & Operations leaders of such product lines in order to monitor the business.

• Build and animate: Build and present the business reviews of your perimeter,
• Ensure reliability, compliance with accounting rules, homogeneity, and completeness within the deadlines.
• Maintain & improve - quality of data and production of the reporting:
• Setup the right checks to ensure that the data is consistent to be reported and work with other departments to continue cleaning this data (Sales & Finance teams especially).
• Organize (or maintain & improve) the switch from excel to BI tools for Business reviews and consolidate the data in a single environment.
• Increase automation and improve the reporting process to reduce delays.
• Improve the relevance & quality of this reporting :
• Manage the continuous improvement and evolution of the data shared in those reviews to better answer the stakeholders needs (Operations & Sales mainly) and better understand those activities.

2. Group reporting:

The FP&A Department is in charge of building each month a group reporting presented to the investors after being reviewed internally.

Your responsibilities are to:

• Build :
• Build the monthly reporting of your perimeter to the FP&A Director within the deadlines,
• Ensure reliability, compliance with accounting rules, homogeneity, and completeness within the deadlines.
• Maintain & improve - quality of data and production of the reporting:
• Ensure the correct reporting of your perimeter within the group P&L.
• Setup the right checks to ensure that the data is consistent to be reported and work with other departments to continue cleaning this data (Finance teams especially).
• Understand and help building the rules of allocation towards the P&L of your Business Units or perimeter.
• Organize (or maintain & improve) the switch from excel to BI tools for Business reviews and consolidate the data in a single environment.
• Increase automation and improve the reporting process to reduce delays.

Budget and reforecast:

The FP&A Department oversees building the Budget (yearly), Reforecast and Business plan (on demand) of the group.

• During budget season:
• Build budget templates, organize budget meetings with the Budget Owners, retrieve inputs.
• Recurring : Anticipate budgeting/forecasting by investigating how we can derive the reporting templates into budgeting templates.
• Bring the budget & forecast data into your reporting with the budget owners to ensure ownership.

The perfect match…

• minimum 3years’ experience ideally within an international group or a Big 4 / audit environment
• Self-starter: you take initiatives, and you are intellectually agile, comfortable with creating processes and dashboards from scratch,
• Advanced Accounting and Excel skills,
• Knowledge in Business intelligence & CRM software is highly appreciated,
• Rigorous personality, organized, trustworthy and curious,
• Capacity to work under pressure in a fast paced, ever-changing environment,
• Highly motivated and striving for continuous improvement and optimisation,
• Fluency in English

What we offer ...

• Empowerment to bring your own ideas and shape our software and processes.
• Thrive in a flat hierarchy that champions courtesy , honesty , and courage .
• Unlock exciting career development paths in a supportive and ambitious company
• Work with global teams on cutting-edge tech and complex data.
• Nice office in Sophia-Antipolis with facilities: pool, tennis court, EV charging stations

Driven by values of entrepreneurship, respect, and integrity, Questel is committed to growth and social responsibility. We foster an inclusive, equitable workplace where all feel respected and empowered, regardless of background. Questel is an Equal Opportunity Employer, considering all qualified applicants without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or other protected factors.