Senior Finance Analyst (French)

CDS, an HPE company ,(CDS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), providing field service capabilities to HPE customers as well delivering the difference in business oriented services, such as development, support and maintenance of applications, virtualisation, automation, cloud and infrastructure administration.

CDS is present in 11 European countries with more than 1600 employees and embraces all of HPE’s values and commitments to employees and customers alike.

Job Description

Role Overview

The CDS Finance Team is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support the France business. This role combines financial planning and analysis, business partnering, financial reporting, and legal entity stewardship. The successful candidate will work closely with the France leadership team and report directly to the NWE Finance Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Recurrent month-end close activities and forecasts.

• Perform month-end close activities in accordance with established closing schedules, ensuring accuracy and a structured approach.

• Prepare the monthly billing to our customer HPE

• Perform Inter Company billings & JV's

• Accruals and cost allocation with the right level of accuracy

• Bank and payroll postings

• Analysing vendor spend

• P&L analysis

• Forecast: work closely with the local management team to review and come to an accurate forecast.

• Reporting and narratives: provide accurate reporting and meaningful and to the point narratives, telling the story behind the figures.

• Prepare finance reporting and review with local management team

• Prepare yearly budget in close cooperation with local management by taking the leading role in the budget settings and challenging budget proposals from business.

• Act as a trusted finance business partner for the France leadership team, providing financial insights and recommendations to support strategic decision-making

• Support in cost efficiency analysis and savings initiatives.

• Support growth initiatives through financial analysis, performance tracking, and opportunity identification

• Yearly review of the labour rates

• Monitor the CDS France legal entity, ensuring compliance with US GAAP and supporting external audit requirements. Work closely with the French Controllership to prepare yearly statutory accounts.

• Work closely with Procurement to monitor vendor spend and vendor invoices

• Other: Record Retention; ensure full compliance and yearly update of policies, procedures, documents; ensure back up documentation for activities are up to date; BCP (Business Continuity Plan) check/update on critical areas and ensure back up checks are done

This job requires:

• High level experience with strong understanding of accounting and financial analysis.

• Able to take ownership and organize work in function of priorities and expected deliverables.

• Able to work in an international complex environment

• Excellent teamwork and strong influencing skills.

• Support and interact with French management team.

• Advanced Excel skills; experience with financial reporting systems, data visualization tools (Power BI), and ERP systems.

• Exposure to strategic planning.

• Language skills: fluent in English and French

Key Success Factors

• Accurate and timely month-end close.

• Delivery of forecast accuracy within agreed targets.

• Identification of cost savings opportunities.

• Strong compliance and audit outcomes.

• Effective partnership with local management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.
• 10+ years of finance/accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP.
• Advanced Excel skills.

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