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Back Market
Back Market

FP&A Group Reporting Lead

Permanent contract
Bordeaux
Salary: Not specified
No remote work
Experience: > 5 years

Back Market
Back Market

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Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of more than 650, powering operations in 16 countries (and counting!).

Back Market is undergoing meteoric growth and has raised $884 million, with a valuation of $5.7 billion. Our mission is simple: empowering people to buy tech sustainably by offering folks a high quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Why? Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact.

Be part of a great and growing adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.

Back Market is now looking for its next FP&A Group Reporting Lead. Reporting to the Head of Group FP&A, you will be a key player of the Finance team and you will contribute to shape the future of finance at Back Market. You will be working in a very close coordination with other finance teams (among which accounting team first) and business teams.  

YOUR MISSION (IF YOU ACCEPT IT): 🥇

  • Lead and coordinate the Group monthly financial closing / reporting process for all subsidiaries

    • -Work closely with internal and external accounting teams in all subsidiaries to ensure transmission of robust and harmonized monthly financial reporting

    -Actively participate into the preparation of the Group monthly financial packages, to be shared with the Executive Committee and the shareholders

    -Coordinate and continuously improve the monthly reporting processes with subsidiaries (e.g. fast close, automation, additional analyses)

    -Ensure a proper reconciliation between accounting and reporting·      

  • Lead the budget and the reforecast processes for the Group

    • -Planning definition

    -Data preparation

    -Communication & presentation

    -Support to business teams and country managers on the construction 

  • Keep on improving the Group financial performance and be a key business partner to help drive the business

    • -Monitor each country performance in collaboration with the General Managers of each entity

    -Perform gap analysis vs. budget / reforecasts, and recommendations to the business executives

    - Realize ad-hoc strategic analyses in coordination with the company executives

    - Maintain and update the analytical accounting structure of Back Market to make it relevant and efficient·    

  • Invest time and efforts to map and industrialize company/group processes

    • -Contribute to documenting the processes within the FP&A team

    -Work closely with Tax and Accounting teams to implement and improve our Group processes (e.g. management fees agreements, transfer pricing policy etc.)·      

  • Be a strong strategic partner for the openings of new legal entities and Back Market geographical expansion
  • Lead and develop a very talented Group reporting FP&A team (2 persons to manage to date)
  • Take an active part into the development of Back Market and the structuring of the finance team by help implementing / maintaining / connecting the right management tools to automate and improve the quality of the financial information (Anaplan, ERP, dashboarding, KPIs)

    • YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF: ⭐

  • You hold a master’s degree in Finance (or equivalent)
  • You bring to the table at least 5 years of experience in corporate finance, of which meaningful experience in FP&A. An audit background is definitely helpful
  • You love to work in a fast-changing environment. Ideally, you already have a strong experience in a start-up / scale-up, and / or in a marketplace environment
  • You are fluent in both French and English
  • You are a reliable team player with a strong sense of accountability and ownership
  • You are highly organized, motivated, analytical, have a sense of urgency and an ability to prioritize tasks
  • You have excellent financial modeling and scenario analysis skills, including the ability to build excel-based decision tools, sensitivity tables (expert user of Microsoft Excel is a must)
  • You have excellent verbal/written communication skills with ability to synthesize recommendations from analysis
  • You are a hands-on person able to dive into accounting, tax & reporting issues
  • You have an unquestionable credibility and integrity
  • You have strong and proven management skills

    • RECRUITMENT PROCESS: 📅

  • Phone interview with Jordi, our Talent Acquisition Specialist
  • Interview with Suzanne, our Head of FP&A
  • Business case
  • Interview with Céline, our Head of Accounting
  • Interview with Clément, our CFO
  • Back Market Values Interview

    • WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ? ✌🏼

    - A meaningful job: through hard work, you will help avoid thousands of tons of electronic waste and fight against planned obsolescence. It counts!

    - An attractive salary, equity, multiple benefits (meal tickets, health insurance, etc...), parental benefits, relocation package, internal events, etc… 

    - Be in an environment where you can make a difference: you will have the freedom to innovate and adopt new ideas!

    - Grow your career with a flexible career path, Back Market can help you evolve!

    - A booming scale-up: our environment is rapidly growing in Europe, the USA and in Asia!

    - We embrace work life balance which includes flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home. 

    - A lot of fun: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment.  

    Back Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer for any minority, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation.

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