Project Financial Controller F/M

The company

Alcatel Submarine Networks stands as an industry leader with over 850,000 km of optical submarine systems globally – that’s nearly 21 times the Earth’s circumference.

We cater to a wide range of needs: from traditional telecom applications and webscale service provider infrastructures to offshore oil and gas projects.

Post description

Within the Finance Department, you will join a dynamic team of 10 people in charge of Project Financial controlling. The team is in 2 sites, Les Ulis France and Greenwich UK. Hundred million projects, managed as construction contracts (Percentage of completion), over several years.

You will be responsible for monitoring the economic performance of projects in close collaboration with the project teams, in compliance with the Group's financial and ethical policies.

Your main responsibilities are:

• Drive, manage and update the project's financial data throughout the life cycle: from coming into force to final acceptance: cost forecast, margin at completion risks & opportunity in close collaboration with the project team

·       Develop and maintain a robust project review process: project's financial exposure and performance: order, sales, margins, inventory and cash flow

·       Follow-up & monitor project exposure as well as currency hedging

·       Pro-actively contribute to the closing and forecasting processes as well as to internal controls performance

• Analyse and explain the discrepancies between actual & forecasts: revenue, costs & main causes of margin & cash-in variations
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• Challenge the operational teams, promote actions to continuously improve the profitability of projects and alert in case of deviations

• Issue the customer cash request in accordance with the contractual billing schedule, including managing the customer payment reminder & escalation to commercial team

·       Ensure that revenue is accounted for in accordance with the group's policies

·       Support the project controlling transformation on process & tools

Profile required

You are dynamic, result-oriented and proactive

You are proficient in Excel and ideally SAP

bachelor’s degree in business management, Finance or Accounting.

You have at least 5 years' experience in finance.

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