Financial Controller
Ensure certification is up to date within a constantly-evolving regulatory and environment and ensure the quality of Accounting and Financial ControlAre you an expert in spotting errors? Truly passionate about numbers and regulation?
Then you would make an excellent Financial Controller, a key position in our Finance department.
Your role? Leading audits, studying the financial information process and ensuring its quality. You don’t miss a thing! Thanks to you, financial and regulatory risks are under control.
Two possible levels of control await you, depending on your profile.
Level 1 Controller: ensure that all data have been correctly entered and transformed into accounting language.
Level 2 Controller: with the benefit of a global overview, you ensure the stability of control measures.
YOUR PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Managing and supervising the control measures process.
- Ensuring that the accounts are complete and approved for publication every quarter.
- Participating in the creation of action plans in areas of risk and the digitalisation of processes.
POSITIVE POINTS OF THE JOB:
Managing the finances of a large corporate group requires sharp eyes and even sharper ears.
At Société Générale, the financial controller orchestrates billions of pieces of financial data and sets them to music.
As financial controllers, we make sure that the figures add up and are properly presented in order to post them every quarter.
Every 10th of the month, we validate what are called statements of account. Which means... things can get tense.
The validation process covers 3 stages.The first-level control consists of verifying, independently of the production, that the data has been duly entered and translated into standard accounting language, in accordance with set standards.
Level-two controllers have an overall view of the data turned over by all the teams. They ensure everything is coherent and correct.
Once all the controls are done, the documents are sent to external agencies, such as auditors, tax agents, and regulators, for official validation.
Another aspect of our job deals with adapting to changes in accounting standards.It’s a constantly evolving subject. The data has to be filed according to industry standards, and it’s the regulators who set the tone.
You might think that financial controller is a numbers job. But in the end, it's mostly about working with the various company teams.
As financial controllers, we train teams as standards evolve, and we work on our teaching skills by explaining the results.
REQUIRED SKILLS
Rigour
Risk awareness
Excellent knowledge of IFRS standards
Regulatory and accounting expertise
Master’s in Finance, Auditing, or equivalent
How to join us
To get to know each other and make sure you will be happy as part of Societe Generale, please follow the below steps.
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By responding to our job advertisement
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ABOUT YOURSELF
We’ll contact you for an initial exchange
and online tests
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You’ll meet our operational team and human
resources partners
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The job is yours, and you’re ready to start the adventure.
THE ADVENTURE HAS JUST BEGUN
At Societe Generale, we make sure that everyone can forge their own path depending on their goals and abilities. After a position as Financial Controller, new opportunities will be open to you:
- Internal Audit
- Financial Supervision
- Management Control
- Organisational Consulting
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