Finance Project Manager - Integration & Value Realization

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Rueil Malmaison, Paris

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• Own the end-to-end financial integration agenda, ensuring alignment with deal thesis and strategic objectives
• Develop and maintain a robust integration roadmap with defined milestones, KPIs, and accountability owners
• Act as the single source of truth for all integration-related financials
• Partner with business and functional leaders to embed financial rigor into integration execution
• Lead tracking and governance of integration costs, ensuring alignment to approved budgets
• Monitor synergy realization against targets (cost and revenue), proactively identifying risks and mitigation plans
• Provide clear visibility on value capture, ROI, and payback timelines
• Establish disciplined reporting mechanisms for integration spend and benefits
• Integrate transformation impacts into annual budgets and rolling forecasts
• Drive scenario planning to assess risks such as delays, cost overruns, and synergy shortfalls
• Conduct prior-year and baseline analyses to establish credible synergy benchmarks
• Ensure financial plans reflect both operational realities and strategic ambition
• Own and deliver AOCs for Gross Margin (GM) and Support Function Costs (SFC)
• Clearly distinguish integration-driven impacts vs. business-as-usual performance
• Provide transparency into key cost drivers (restructuring, transition costs, efficiencies)
• Validate assumptions and track delivery in partnership with business leaders
• Track R&D investments within the integration scope, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities
• Govern capitalization of R&D costs in line with accounting standards and audit requirements
• Provide clear visibility into innovation spend vs. integration commitments
• Rationalize and harmonize cost structures across legacy and integrated entities
• Establish consistent reporting hierarchies and cost allocation frameworks
• Drive accountability for costs across newly integrated teams
• Enable clean post-integration performance tracking
• Executive (EXCOM) Reporting
• Lead quarterly EXCOM reporting on integration progress, including
• Financial performance vs. plan
• Synergy realization
• Key risks, decisions, and trade-offs
• Translate complex financials into clear, executive-ready narratives
• Support leadership with insights that drive timely decision-making
• Establish and enforce a robust financial controls framework across integration programs
• Ensure adherence to governance, compliance, and trust standards
• Identify control gaps and lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Safeguard disciplined use of capital during transformation
• Oversee and validate monthly payroll accuracy and completeness
• Ensure alignment with budgeting assumptions and workforce plans
• Strengthening controls and transparency in people-related costs
• Own and oversee the month-end close process for integration-related entities and adjustments
• Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting during integration phases
• Review and validate integration-related journal entries, accruals, and adjustments
• Partner with Accounting/Controllership teams to ensure alignment between management reporting and statutory reporting
• Ensure proper classification of integration costs (e.g., restructuring, one-time vs. recurring)
• Drive consistency between reported financials and integration tracking (synergies, costs, AOCs)
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between ERP financials and integration reporting decks

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (required)
• MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional qualification (strongly preferred)
• 8–12+ years of progressive finance experience
• Proven track record in M&A integration, transformation programs, or large-scale strategic initiatives
• Strong experience in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
• Strong experience in month-end close, financial reporting, and controllership processes
• Experience ensuring alignment between management reporting and statutory financials
• Experience in synergy tracking, cost optimization, and value realization frameworks
• Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or complex multi-entity environments preferred
• Experience working with senior leadership
• Advanced financial modeling and scenario analysis
• Strong understanding of cost structures (GM, SFC, overheads)
• Familiarity with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau)
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, including financial close processes, journal entries, accruals, capitalization, and cost allocation
• Understanding of financial close cycles, reconciliations, and audit requirements
• Strategic yet hands-on—able to move between detail and big-picture seamlessly
• Strong analytical mindset with a focus on value creation and cost discipline
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-paced, evolving environments
• High ownership and accountability with a governance-first mindset
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Clear communicator who can simplify complexity for executive audiences
• Strong attention to detail with a no-surprises mindset in financial reporting
• Bring your finance project expertise to a team that's ready to welcome you — apply today!
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• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• Benefit bucks
• Paid family leave
• Well-being programs
• 12 holidays per year
• 15 days of paid time off
• 401(k) with match
• Company share ownership
• Volunteer leave
• Military leave benefits