🕒 7 days ago
Lead a three-person accounting team while overseeing hands-on accounting operations, financial close, statutory reporting, tax filings, and audit support in an international manufacturing environment.
Accounting Manager (R2R)
📅 Jul 10
📍 🇫🇷 Paris - Hybrid🎙️ Leadership🧾 Accounting Manager📢 🇬🇧 English Required📢 🇫🇷 French Required💼 Full-Time
Record-to-reportGeneral LedgerFinancial CloseIFRS
📜 Description
- Own monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes.
- Maintain close calendars and checklists, track progress, and escalate risks early.
- Coordinate the R2R team, allocate responsibilities, and ensure timely delivery.
- Oversee journal entries, trial balance accuracy, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Manage intercompany accounting and resolve reconciliation mismatches.
- Prepare consolidation data, support audits and statutory reporting, and improve accounting processes.
🛠️ Requirements
- CPA or equivalent professional designation with at least 8 years of accounting experience, including 2+ years at a Big 4 firm.
- Solid knowledge of IFRS.
- Strong experience in General Ledger and close processes, particularly in multi-entity or international environments.
- Advanced proficiency in SAP S4/HANA is a plus.
- Strong organizational and time management skills to manage deadlines and priorities under pressure.
- Fluent in English; French is a plus.
✨ Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances
Full job description
About Mistral
Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.
We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.
The Role
As an Accounting (R2R) Manager on the Accounting team, you will play a critical role in supporting Mistral’s rapid international expansion. This position is designed to own and execute the end-to-end close process, ensuring accurate, timely, and scalable financial reporting across all entities. You will lead the Record-to-Report function, maintaining the integrity of the General Ledger and balance sheet while managing a team of GL accountants. Your work will directly impact the company’s ability to scale its financial operations globally.
What You Will Do
Own and run the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes.
Build and maintain a detailed close calendar and checklist, tracking progress daily to meet all deadlines.
Proactively identify risks and escalate issues early to avoid delays.
Manage and coordinate the R2R team, allocating responsibilities and ensuring coordinated delivery.
Oversee journal entries, trial balance accuracy, and monthly reconciliations for all balance sheet accounts.
Investigate and resolve unusual or aged items to maintain data integrity.
Manage intercompany accounting and reconciliation across entities, resolving mismatches proactively.
Prepare data for group consolidation and support audit and statutory reporting.
Contribute to process improvements, automation, and standardization initiatives.
What We're Looking For
CPA or equivalent professional designation with at least 8 years of accounting experience, including 2+ years at a Big 4 firm.
Solid knowledge of IFRS.
Strong experience in General Ledger and close processes, particularly in multi-entity or international environments.
Advanced proficiency in SAP S4/HANA is a plus.
Strong organizational and time management skills to manage deadlines and priorities under pressure.
Fluent in English; French is a plus.
What We Offer
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.
For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page.
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