Accounting Director Sonepar France
Sonepar France : Turn over 2,5 billions €, 5600 employees, + 500 agenciesManage 3 Accounting Shared Services Center teams for France (scope 40 legal entities, cost accounting, tax, financial consolidation account and 120 fte) - Produce accurate and timely financial statements (French GAAP) and the consolidated financial statements (IFRS) - Optimize accounting's function costs - Drive the year end audit processes.- Manage a teamo leadership that encourages and engages a team to deliver and play a key role in our company’s transformation, develop a team of high-skilled accounting professionals and talent management/developmento a role model who attracts and engages talent- Ensure the financial statutory account- Produce the consolidated financial statements (IFRS)- Participate to SSC finance transformation project (seven pillar) :o 1. Finance & accounting processes : standardize, optimize and automate end to end processes to increase the level of efficiency (deploy EDI suppliers invoices by CEGEDIM - reduce the month end close procedures)o 2. Organization & governance : clarify roles & responsibilities across the finance organizationo 3. Change management : communicate the organizational vision to teams o 4. Accounting compliance : ensure compliance with Corporate Policy, legal and fiscal regulations and guidelines internal control - perform root cause analysis for each risk and remediation action in each process. Compliance concerns all companies. These are strict obligations but also many opportunities to gain in efficiencyo 5. Internal control : support internal audit activity and communicate lessons learned - reinforce internal controlso 6. Competences management : increase a culture of performance, focus on customer & service, prioritize training needs based on business requirementso 7. Implement a new ERP software (CODA => Movex V13) in a context of an depth transformation project (simplify the legal structure by merging several legal entities)