Job Description

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Group FP&A Director (H/F)

Finance, e-Quarter

WHAT IS EDENRED?

Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments and the everyday companion for people at work, connecting more than 60 million users and more than2 million partner merchants in 44 countries via 1 million corporate clients. Edenred offers specific-purpose payment solutions for food (such as meal benefits), engagement (such as gift cards and engagement platforms), mobility (such as multi-energy solutions, including EV charging, maintenance, toll and parking) and corporate payments (such as virtual cards). 

True to the Group's purpose, "Enrich connections. For good.", these solutions enhance users’ well-being and purchasing power. They improve companies’ attractiveness and efficiency, and vitalize the employment market and the local economy. They also foster access to healthier food, more environmentally friendly products and sustainable mobility.

Edenred’s 12,000 employees are committed to making the world of work a connected ecosystem that is safer, more efficient and more responsible every day. In 2024, thanks to its global technology assets, the Group managed close to €45 billion in business volume, primarily carried out via mobile applications, online platforms and cards. Edenred is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and included in the following indices: CAC Large 60, Euronext 100, Euronext Tech Leaders, FTSE4Good, DJSI Europe Index, DJSIWorld Index, and MSCI Europe.

VIBE WITH US

Rattached to the SVP Group CFO, the Group FP&A Director leads both the run and the transformation of the FP&A function at Group level. Their mission is to design and operate a centralized, datadriven and highly automated FP&A model, in strong coordination with Consolidation and Finance IS, in order to sustainably improve forecast accuracy, industrialize production, and reposition teams on highvalue insight generation for the Board, Executive Management and Investor Relations.

Context & Key Challenges

• Build a modern, well-equipped, reliable and scalable Group FP&A capability (new EPM - golive in April)

• Strengthen alignment between internal performance steering, IFRS statutory reporting and investor communication messages

• Shift from a fragmented model to a centralized/standardized model (reporting factory), freeing time for analysis and decision making

• Place data at the core of processes (quality, traceability, governance) to enhance performance and predictability

Main Missions & Responsibilities

Group FP&A Run & Insight Production

• Steer the FP&A run, ensuring reliability, message consistency and timely delivery

• Produce forward-looking analyses and executive packs for the Board, Finance Committee and Executive Management (drivers, scenarios, risks/opportunities, sensitivity)

• Support financial communication (alignment between internal/external messaging, explanations vs guidance, variance analysis)

Coordination of Budget / Forecast / Plan Cycles

• Lead end-to-end the annual Budget, Forecasts (including rolling), and 3year Strategic Plan

• Define the Group framework (assumptions, calendar, reporting standards, R&Rs)

• Orchestrate contributions from Business Lines, Internal Service Providers (Paytech, Global Tech) and Global Functions

• Ensure consistency between strategic trajectory / P&L performance / cash / profitability (incl. capex/opex, FCF)

Close Partnership with Group Consolidation

• Align management and statutory views, secure management vs IFRS bridges, ensure consistency of Group messages

• Contribute to actual/forecast variance analysis and continuous improvement of upstream data quality

• Reduce manual reconciliations and establish a shared financial view across FP&A / Consolidation / Financial Communication

Collaboration with Finance IS & EPM

• Cobuild with Finance IS the tools roadmap, prioritize FP&A value-adding evolutions, and ensure proper alignment between tools and usage

• Design, staff and oversee the new EPM operations team (COE / Run & Build)

• Turn the EPM into a performance lever (automation, scenario modeling, cycle time reduction, driver-based planning) – new Oracle EPM currently being deployed

Data Driven FP&A & Forecast

• Lead FP&A data governance (quality, traceability, dictionaries, controls)

• Structurally improve forecast accuracy (assumptions review, postmortems, feedback loops)

• Deploy advanced practices: rolling forecast, scenario planning, stress testing, predictive analytics when relevant

Automation & Reporting Factory

• Automate Group reporting production, drastically reduce manual tasks, and eliminate Excel reprocessing

• Establish a centralized, standardized and scalable reporting factory (report catalog, SLAs, quality control)

• Reallocate teams towards analysis, business partnering and insight generation

Animation of the Group FP&A Community

• Animate the FP&A community (~200 finance professionals) through common standards, rituals and communities of practice

• Implement skills assessments, FP&A training paths, and end-to-end collective objectives via OKRs

• Foster a data driven mindset, continuous improvement and strong business partnering culture

Domain Cost Centers & Data Quality

• Act as owner of the Group Cost Centers Domain (governance, standards, evolutions)

• Ensure cost data quality in collaboration with FP&A, Consolidation and Finance IS

Management & Leadership

• Direct management: 4 direct reports within Group FP&A.

• Functional leadership / Indirect management: ~200 FP&A collaborators across the Group (multicountry, matrix environment).

• Cross-functional leadership: strong influence capabilities without hierarchical authority, clear communication with executive audiences, management of arbitrations and dependencies, close collaboration with Consolidation, Finance IS/IT/Data and Business Lines.

Positioning & Interfaces

• Reporting line: Finance Performance Director & SVP Group CFO

• Key interfaces: CFO/Finance Performance Director and SVP Group CFO, Group Consolidation, Finance IS/IT/Data, Business Lines and Internal Service Providers, Investor Relations, Treasury, Tax

WE VIBE WITH YOU

Technical Skills (Hard Skills)

• Advanced FP&A: driver based planning, rolling forecast, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, cash & capex planning.

• Accounting & consolidation: strong understanding of financial statements, IFRS, and management/statutory bridges

• EPM & BI tools

• Automation & industrialization: reporting factory design, flow orchestration, SLA management, testing and controls

• Financial communication: contribution to external messaging, consistency between guidance and performance

Behavioral Skills (Soft Skills)

• Influential leadership in matrixed and international environments

• Strategic thinking and results orientation, combined with strong execution rigor

• Excellent communication and data storytelling for executive audiences

• Ability to lead change, engage large communities and develop capabilities

• Analytical mindset, curiosity, pragmatism, service orientation and confidentiality

• Resilience, ability to manage workload peaks and multiple priorities

Desired Profile

• Education: top business/engineering school or master’s degree in finance / management

• Performance/finance consulting experience is a plus

• Experience: 15+ years in FP&A, including significant experience in international Group environments; proven track record in FP&A transformation and EPM implementation

• Sectors: ideally financial services, technology or data intensive B2B services; performance/finance consulting experience is a plus

• Management: direct management of multidisciplinary teams (ideally 10–20+ FTE), and leadership of a broader community

OTHER DETAILS

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

Apply now and Vibe with Us!