The Country Financial Controller will be responsible for the Financial Control environment within all Iron Mountain in France including the overseeing of accounting and internal control activities across the country. This role will be responsible for the accurate monthly accounting in local systems and group reporting. The role requires the ability to understand and apply specific business knowledge in an effort to anticipate potential problems and force timely resolutions. As there is frequent interaction with key stakeholders, strong presentation and communication skills are essential.

• Responsible for the coordination, preparation and review of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting packs for the country entities
• Manage and track preparation of Statutory Accounts and tax returns for all Country entities. Target is for all to be completed on time. Support external auditors for US GAAP audit purposes.
• Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external key stakeholders.
• Maintain the accountability to the Country finance director / Business Partner. Perform risk analysis, review, and providing recommendations for business process changes necessary to address risks of financial misstatement. Working with management, operations and accounting teams on implementing the changes.
• Provide support to investigate and resolve accounting issues for all Country entities
• Accountable for ensuring compliance with IM group accounting policies, US GAAP and SOX. Collaborating with and supporting cluster finance director in ensuring ongoing risk-based monitoring, design, and implementation of effective internal controls for the Cluster locations including those in scope for the SOX. Responsible for country approval and cluster certification of SOX (or SOX-Lite) controls for Country entities with a goal of maintaining the same effectiveness, not lower than the average of EMEA countries.
• Manage a team geographically distributed across the Country entities for all aspects of their performance management.
• Ensure finance systems optimisation and continuous improvement. Proactively contribute to the development and implementation of the Finance Systems strategy within the framework of the IM global financial systems strategy.
• Implement and lead r egular balance sheet reviews for all Country entities (regularity of review dependent on importance of country and size of previous accounting issues) and have a special focus on reviewing of high risk balance sheet account reconciliations
• Accounting support of M&A activities, due diligence and post-acquisition integration projects relating to financial reporting aspects, lead the set-up of reporting for newly acquired entities.
• Drive and support the effective operation of accounting shared services. Identify any issues and manage resolution. Provide support in any additional transition to the outsourcing companies, or system implementation
• Monitoring P2P activities in the country, perform root cause analysis, run continuous improvement projects (working with Finance SSC P2P Lead and Regional SME)
• Revenue recognition: monitoring for risk around significant new or complex arrangements, work closely working with global SME
• Responsible for the production of the monthly disclosure report for country entities.
• Participate in ad-hoc projects.

• Qualifications: Chartered Accountant (CA, ACCA, CPA or local equivalent)
• Experience of Managing a General Ledger close for a large multinational corporation
• Excellent understanding of French GAAP
• Exposure to SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley)
• Experienced in preparing Statutory Accounts
• Experience working within a matrix organisation
• Good understanding of Taxation (particularly VAT) is preferred
• Experience implementing/improving financial processes is preferred
• Management experience including managing employees
• You will be a proactive self-starter with proven problem solving skill set
• Experience of working in a shared service environment
• You will be an excellent communicator with team building skills
• Remote management skills of a team deployed across several countries is preferred
• Independent, proactive and inspires to challenge the status quo
• Strong relationship building skills at all levels
• Fluent French and English