Financial and accounting manager

About our client:Our Client operates in the Automation Machinery Manufacturing Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in Switzerland. It has its branches spread to more than 15 countries, providing employment to more than 3,000 people all over the world. Their core business is to develop, manufacture and market energy efficient overall solutions for buildings.About the roleSubsidiary of a Swiss group with an international dimension, founded in 1910, SAUTER Régulation SAS is the market leader in France and Luxembourg, in the energy efficiency sector. SAUTER Régulation offers a complete range of products, solutions and services for the optimization of comfort and energy. Our turnover is 25 million euros, we employ more than 120 people through our 6 Regional Divisions and we cover the whole of France and Luxembourg.The successful candidate will manage functional services and ensures their economic balance. Advisor to management, he/she assumes financial responsibility and is the guarantor of compliance with legal obligations.As a Financial Accounting Manager you will…· Have hierarchical and transversal management· Organize and distribute the tasks of its collaborators, specialized in their respective fields: accounting and finance, administration, human resources and information system.· Define their objectives, evaluate their performance, support their skills development.· Ensure legal, tax and regulatory compliance of all processes.· Coordinate cross-functional projects: formalization of good practices, updating of the accounting framework, improvement of the IT tool.· Accounting and financial follow-up· Define the financial policy, in particular the credit policy (collection of receivables), control compliance with legal and internal accounting rules.· Monitor cash flows on a daily basis, analyze deviations from forecasts, update cash forecasts, supervise the collection (customers) and disbursement (suppliers) process, develop investment financing plans, manage the real estate and movable assets, ensuring relations with banking establishments (investments).· Manage the performance of services: establish dashboards, periodically monitor indicators, analyze monthly differences, participate in the preparation and development of provisional budgets, monitor their evolution.· Participate in the preparation of accounting situations and closing of accounts, the establishment of financial statements and their consolidation, tax declarations.· Supervise financial information and its communication to external partners.· Coordination of administrative tasks· Define the HR policy, lead the dialogue with the IRP (staff representative bodies), in conjunction with his line manager.· Ensure relations with the tax administration and experts (lawyer, auditor, accountant, auditor), litigation procedures, supervise the management of general services (health, safety, new works, insurance, supplies, equipment, provider contracts).· Supervise HR management: payroll and HR indicators, recruitment, training plan, annual interviews, absences, employment contracts, social declarations and other obligations, internal and external communication.· Supervise the IT department: define resources and needs, manage implementation (ERP) and deployment projects.· Prepare management meetings, take minutes.· Management: advice and technical support· Periodically report working capital requirements to management.· Supervise management s provisional budgets, recommend strategic solutions.· Develop recommendations to management on its financial strategies and to operational managers on budget processes, on operational solutions.· Conduct ad hoc cost analysis and internal audit assignments.· Participate in management committee meetings.· Conduct annual interviews.· Ensure or participate in industrial management control.· Oversee internal audit assignments.· Carry out strategic and budgetary simulations (investment projects).What you already have…· Required diplomas: DCG (diploma in accounting and management), CCA license (accounting, control, audit), Bac +5 level training, Master CCA (accounting, control, audit), Higher Diploma in Accounting and Management (DSCG)· A minimum of five years experience is required, in accounting, management control, accounting audit.· Technical skills, including experience/familiarity with IFS· Good knowledge of the company, its businesses, its culture and the operation of all departments· Good knowledge of management control and audit, taxation, labor and business law· Good knowledge of the company s information system· Mastery of office tools as well as BI (Business Intelligence) tools· English and French language skills