Strategic Finance Manager: Cost Optimization & FP&A

Why we need you

Because we’re looking for someone who loves numbers when they help make decisions, not when they’re sleeping in spreadsheets.

As Financial Manager , you drive the performance of structural and technological costs, produce reliable and actionable consolidated reporting, and secure the company’s cash flow. You are at the heart of business, tech, and product challenges, with a real overview of costs and cash.

You manage a dedicated resource you help grow, work closely with G&A, Tech/Product, and Marketing teams, and play a key business partner role. You don’t just do reporting, you help teams better understand their numbers to drive their decisions.

If you want to be where decisions are made, it’s now.

Your day‑to‑day with us

• Drive and optimize structural costs (G&A) You build, track and challenge budgets and forecasts for central functions (HR, Legal, Finance, Comms, Facilities). You implement clear and useful monthly analyses and propose concrete efficiency action plans.
• Drive Tech/Product/Marketing costs You manage tech OPEX (SaaS licenses, cloud, maintenance, subcontracting) and marketing (events, campaigns). You track CAPEX files, CIR (research tax credit) and consolidate supplier commitments, maintain a license inventory and lead renegotiations.
• Manage payroll costs in collaboration with HR You handle the full payroll cost management and tracking in close cooperation with HR, monitor headcount evolution, analyse variances and ensure accurate forecasting of personnel expenses across all entities.
• Produce reliable and actionable consolidated reporting You coordinate the consolidated monthly package: P&L, OPEX by function, headcount & costs, CAPEX, KPIs, with clear executive commentary. You ensure data consistency across entities, industrialise reporting (Power BI, Looker, automation) and ensure account submission in the shareholder’s consolidation tool.
• Drive cash flow and working capital You build cash forecasts (budget and revisions), analyse variances vs actuals and model scenarios (sensitivity, stress tests). You flag concerns before they become problems.
• Be a real business partner You lead performance reviews with Tech, Product, Marketing, G&A teams and management. You help teams better understand their numbers to make better decisions, using clear, action‑driven language.
• Manage and structure You supervise and develop one junior analyst/controller, prioritise, develop skills, maintain quality standards and document team processes (SOPs, calendars, templates, best practices).

Information supplémentaire

• Location: Issy-les-Moulineaux
• Contract type: Permanent Contract

What we’re really looking for

• 5+ years of experience in finance (Financial Manager, Management Control, FP&A), ideally in a tech/scale‑up/international environment.
• Very strong appetite for cost management and optimisation, especially in a significant engineering scope (contractors, recruitment agencies, subcontracting, structural costs).
• Ability to challenge operational choices – contractor vs FTE, make or buy – and work closely with support and engineering teams.
• Solid mastery of P&L and cash – consolidation, analysis, forecasts, closings.
• Comfortable in a multi‑entity environment and multi‑currency (EUR/USD, FX impacts).
• Bilingual French/English – used daily.

Nice‑to‑haves that make the difference

• Background in audit, consulting, or M&A – with a real internal consulting posture.
• Experience coordinating controllers and managing a junior profile.
• Interest in AI and automation – you see the potential of smart tools to optimise processes.
• SQL skill – you can write queries to dig into data when needed.
• Rigor, business curiosity and scale‑up mindset – clearly in your DNA.

Benefits

• Hybrid work framework, depending especially on the needs of your position, ability to work 3 months abroad.
• Saving plan Canal +.
• Paternity leave or coparental leave extended.
• Living employee culture (events, trainings, parties, all hands).
• Career development support (training, internal mobility, compensation cycle, 360 feedback).
• High‑end health insurance and personal services vouchers (CESU).
• Paid time off – RTT and saving time plan (CET).
• Meal vouchers, public transport and bike refund.
• European economic and social committee (sport membership, cinemas vouchers, gift vouchers, discount).
• Fitness subscription thanks to partnership with Gymlib.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Dailymotion is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We value inclusion and want you to help us thrive for a more diverse community. All our job offers are open to people with disabilities or impairments, and we actively encourage everyone to apply. If you have any accessibility needs or require any accommodations for the hiring process, please let us know in advance so that we can make any necessary arrangements.