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Corporate Finance Intern

Internship
Paris
Salary: Not specified
No remote work
Experience: < 6 months

Qonto
Qonto

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Our mission? Creating the finance solution that energizes SMEs and freelancers, so they can achieve more. We simplify everything from everyday banking to bookkeeping and spend management. At Qonto, we’re passionate about creating the best product, so if you’re looking for an ambitious team that’s revolutionizing an old-fashioned industry, get in touch!

Our journey: Alexandre and Steve launched Qonto in July 2017. Since then, the team has earned the trust of more than 350,000 customers and opened offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Barcelona. Last summer, we joined forces with Penta, a market leader based in Berlin and Belgrade, forming a united team of 1000+ Qontoers. We also made it to the Top 3 of LinkedIn Top Startups France!

Our values:

Ambition | We tackle big challenges. No matter what.

Teamwork | We create momentum by working together, at the same speed.

Mastery | We pursue excellence through continuous learning. We face challenges with humility. Every day.

Integrity | We're open. We're honest. And we earn the trust of our clients and each other.

You can find out more about the Qonto Way here.

Our beliefs: Diversity brings success. We actively recruit people from a range of backgrounds, employ inclusive hiring techniques; and work with our external partners to continually increase and improve our DEI initiatives. As a result, we obtained a rating of 89/100 in 2022 for the annual Index of professional equality and are happy to say that 44% of our teams are women.

As a Corporate Finance intern, you will be involved in financial planning, investors' monthly reporting, and ad-hoc financial analysis to support Qonto's strategic decisions.

You will report to Antoine, Lead Corporate Finance, and will work with other Finance team members (Accountants, FP&A Analysts).

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Corporate Finance Intern at Qonto, you will

• Work on monthly financial reporting and quarterly board deck for investors

Contribute to weekly reporting and analysis for Qonto's top management including monitoring of key KPIs (Client acquisition, ARPU, MRR)

Update and enrich our Business Plan, Budget, and Reforecast and perform financial modeling

Perform ad-hoc financial analysis / financial modeling on different topics (e.g. deep dive on performance)

Contribute to corporate Finance projects (M&A, fundraising, special projects)

Support the data team in building relevant dashboards to enable decision-making and participate in the automation of the forecasting process

🤔 What you can expect

• To work closely with Qonto's Finance team and also be exposed to other teams and be part of our strategy by making Qonto grow

• To contribute to the development of the Finance function in one of the most promising European scale-ups / fintech

• To work in a fast-paced environment with a strong focus on quality (click here to know more)

• To be exposed to financial, tech, and data analysis topics

🤝 About your future manager

Your manager will be Antoine, our Lead Corporate Finance.

His background? He has worked for 5 years in TS and M&A and is now leading the Corporate Finance team with the help of Jean, and Baptiste.

What he can bring to you? Antoine has a range array of expertise. Recently he worked on the Series D fundraising for several months. He improved the forecasting process by implementing new tools that are deployed at the company level. He is also in charge of the monthly investors reporting and is a business partner of the VP Finance and Qonto’s executive committee by providing in-depth analysis of Qonto’s performance.

🏅 About You

Experience: You have 6 to 12 months of internship experience in audit, transaction services, FP&A, controlling, Investment Banking, Corporate M&A, or Private Equity

Communication: You have excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and in a structured way

Mastery: You are analytical, fully proficient in Excel, and ideally a first experience working with financial systems and tools (Tableau, Metabase, Power BI). You know how to use data to build powerful insights and strategies

Languages: You are fluent in English and another European language (French, German, Italian, or Spanish) is a definite plus

Qonto is an open-minded company. Don’t tick all the boxes? Apply and we’ll let you know if we think you could fit the role. You never know ☺️

⚠️ Certain of our perks and benefits are only available to employees on permanent contracts

🎁 Perks

A laptop. An inclusive work environment. A tailor-made career track. And so much more to help you succeed.

- A central fully-renovated building in Paris with WeWork services

- Monthly team events

- Tailor-made Remote Policy

- 25 days of paid leave + 5 Qonto days or 25 days of paid leave + 10 RTT +/-

- Alan health insurance, Moka Care to take care of your mental health, and Gymlib for sports and wellness activities

- A Swile lunch card: 50% covered

- A progressive parenthood policy as part of our commitment to the Parental Act (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners

💪 Our hiring process:

- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers

- A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

Thank you for considering joining Qonto. We cannot wait to learn more about you!

One last thing. We recently raised 486M€ in our Series D to ensure we keep growing safely, despite the current economic environment looking a bit gloomy. We revealed our plans for the future here.

To learn more about us:

Qonto's Blog | Les Échos I ChallengesForbes

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