Group FPNA Controller Senior

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Group FPNA Controller Senior (H/F)

Finance, e-Quarter

WHO IS EDENRED?

Edenred is the leading digital platform for services and payments that supports everyday working life. Operating in 46 countries, it connects over 50 million users with 2 million partner merchants through more than 850,000 client companies.

Edenred offers purpose-driven payment solutions tailored to specific needs in:

• Food (such as meal vouchers) & Employee engagement (like gift cards and employee engagement platforms)

• Mobility (including multi-energy solutions, maintenance, tolls, parking, and transport),

• Professional payments (such as virtual cards

True to its purpose, "Enrich connections. For good.", Edenred's solutions enhance users' well-being and purchasing power. They boost companies' attractiveness and efficiency, stimulate employment and local economies, and promote access to healthier food, environmentally friendly products, and more sustainable mobility.

Edenred's 12,000 employees are committed every day to making the working world more connected, efficient, secure, and responsible.

In 2024, the Group generated nearly €2.14 billion in revenue, primarily through mobile apps, online platforms, and cards.

Listed on Euronext Paris, Edenred is part of the CAC Next 20, FTSE4Good, and MSCI Europe indices.

By joining us, you become part of an international company with a human scale, a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and a dynamic digital transformation. This spirit is also reflected in Edenred's career management approach, which encourages rapid access to responsibilities and high autonomy, within a networked SME-SMI environment.

VIBE WITH US

Direct Manager: Group FP&A Director

Scope: Lead Group-level strategic financial analysis and planning, including F1/F2/Budget cutoffs, versioning and governance forums, and partner closely with the EPM Product Owner (Apollo) and the Planning & Forecasting Lead. Drive insights that influence ExCom decisions while supporting a vibrant FP&A community (~200 FTEs).

Key interfaces

• Group and Local FP&A; Business Lines; Regions/Countries; Consolidation & Accounting

• FOX, EPM Product Owner, Finance IS/IT

• Finance leaders (CFO community), Procurement, HR, Legal, Tech, and other corporate functions

Main Responsibilities

Financial Production & Reporting - FP&A Run

• Coordinate the daily FP&A run across monthly reporting/F1/F2/Budget cycles (cutoffs, templates, versioning, governance) to ensure reliability, message consistency and on-time delivery.

• Produce or consolidate specific deliverables (transversal analyses, standard packs, management syntheses) and prepare inputs and presentations for internal meetings (Business Reviews, Finance and Executive Committees, Investor Relations), under Director supervision.

• Contribute to reporting industrialization with the EPM Product Owner and Reporting Factory (standardization, automation, selfservice).

• Identify operational pain points, quantify impact, and channel improvements into the EPM backlog with clear priorities and followup.

• Lead competitive and market analysis to inform strategic decisionmaking; embed insights in management narratives.

• Own the monthly performance storyline and variance analysis (YoY, vs Budget/F1/F2), including scenario/sensitivity analyses and actionoriented recommendations.

• Define and track FP&A run KPIs (cycle time, rework, data quality exceptions, submission compliance on-time)

FP&A Community Animation

• Support the operational animation of the FP&A community and foster interactions among members (~200 FTEs)

• Organize and structure FP&A rituals: monthly calls, communications, and best practice sharing.

• Co-lead communities of practice and thematic workshops while developing innovative FP&A methodologies.

• Contribute to the development and adoption of FP&A standards (processes, tools, OKRs)

• Coown capability building with the Planning & Forecasting Lead and EPM Product Owner: training paths, Apollo/BI adoption, knowledge base.

• Develop close collaboration with Business Lines and Business Units to align FP&A strategy with overall business objectives

• Stay at the forefront of technological innovations and industry trends to ensure FP&A practices continuously evolve.

• Champion change management and communication to increase adoption of new standards, data definitions, and tooling.

3. Data Quality & Data Governance

• Act as the operational referent for FP&A data quality topics.

• Identify and monitor data quality issues (MDM, cost centers, reporting standards, mappings...).

• Support the implementation of quality and traceability controls.

• Work closely with Consolidation, Finance IS and EPM Ops teams to improve upstream data quality.

• Drive data cleanup initiatives and corrective action plans.

• Contribute to updates of data dictionaries and Group standards.

• Represent FP&A in Data Governance forums; define FP&A KPIs and signoff remediation outcomes with Data Owners/Stewards.

• Ensure alignment of FP&A referentials and mappings across Apollo (EPM), ERP and BI.

WE VIBE WITH YOU

Hard Skills

• Professional experience: strong FP&A background (8-10 years), in international Group settings is a plus.

• Technical skills: Solid expertise in financial reporting and planning cycles. Strong data & MDM knowledge: quality, controls, cost center structure, traceability. Good understanding of financial statements and IFRS/management bridges.

• Tooling: Proficiency with EPM & BI tools (Oracle EPM Cloud, Anaplan, Power BI...). Excellent Excel & financial modelling skills. Strong interest in AI-powered tools and their application to financial processes; experience leveraging AI assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude Sonnet, Copilot) to enhance productivity, automate tasks, and improve analytical outputs is a plus.

• Edenred specifics: familiarity with F1/F2/Budget governance, Apollo (Oracle EPM Cloud) operating model, Reporting Factory, and Group reporting standards is a strong plus

Soft Skills

• Leadership skills : Strong coordination and facilitation skills (no direct hierarchical authority). Capacity to lead and motivate a team while developing cross-functional relationships in a matrix environment.

• Communication skills: Excellent communication, collaborative mindset and service orientation.

• Strategic orientation: High reliability, organizational skills and autonomy. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a transforming environment. Analytical thinker, solutiondriven, adaptable and pragmatic.

• Change leadership: ability to drive adoption of new processes/tools and influence stakeholders across countries and Business Lines.

Experience

• Master's degree in finance/management (Business School, Engineering School, or equivalent).

• 8-10 years' experience in FP&A, Group Controlling, Finance Transformation and/or Consulting.

• Experience partnering with IT/Product (EPM) and operating in multicountry environments is desirable.

OKR / Success Metrics

• Ontime, infull delivery of F1/F2/Budget FP&A packs and narratives.

• Reduction in manual rework; increase in standardized reports/selfservice usage.

• Data quality: # of FP&A DQ issues, timetoremediate, submission compliance rate.

• Stakeholder satisfaction (FP&A community and Finance leadership)

• Forecast cycle time and forecast accuracy (in partnership with the Planning & Forecasting Lead)

OTHER DETAILS
• Start date : ASAP
• Location : Issy-les-Moulineaux, FrancelesMoulineaux, France

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