FP&A Business Partner – Tech & Product

Job description

**🪐 Discover our galaxy** Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 1,000,000 talented freelancers with 100,000+ companies. Founded in 2013, we're transforming how work gets done through our tech-powered, human-centered platform. What makes us different: - A diverse team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries - A culture that champions equality (50% of our Comex are women) and inclusive growth - Backed by top investors including ISAI, Serena Capital, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI - A mission to give everyone the freedom to work differently Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here! 🪐 *At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.* ### **Explore your future career 🔭** To act as the primary Financial Business Partner for the CTO and CPO, providing financial visibility, challenging investment assumptions, managing the end-to-end lifecycle of Capital Expenditures (Capex) and operating expenses for software development and infrastructure, ensuring strict application of IFRS framework at Malt. ### Key responsibilities ✨ - **Budgeting & Forecasting**: Lead the annual budget and quarterly rolling forecasting cycles for the R&D and IT departments, including monthly variance analysis. - **Financial Gatekeeping, Business Partnering & Business Cases**: - Evaluate, under strict IFRS rules, new R&D phases and IT projects by calculating NPV, IRR, ROI, and Payback Periods to guide Product Committee decisions. - Partner with Engineering Leads to optimize headcount/freelancing spend, and track R&D Intensity/Innovation Effectiveness ratios. - **Capex & Capitalization Management**: - Define and enforce IAS 38 capitalization policies (IFRS guidelines), track hardware/software lifecycles, and coordinate month-end closing with Accounting. - Audit the internal time-tracking system to ensure accurate Project ID tagging, defending R&D Tax Credits and Capitalization audits and ensure strict IFRS compliance - **Tool Ownership**: Own and build a dedicated Pigment app. ### About you 🧑‍🚀 - **Experience**: Minimum 5 years of progressive experience, specifically focused on R&D and project controlling. - **Accounting Knowledge**: Strong IFRS knowledge, practical grasp of IAS 38 (Intangible Assets), and project accounting rules. - **Financial Modeling & Business Partnering**: High proficiency in building complex financial models for forecasting, business cases, and scenario analysis (NPV, IRR) , combined with excellent interpersonal skills to challenge assumptions collaboratively across technical and product departments. - **Technical Tools**: Advanced Excel, dashboarding solutions, and FP&A software (Pigment is a major plus; ERP knowledge advantageous). - **Languages**: Fully fluent in both French and English to operate in an international European environment. - **Adaptability**: Comfortable managing multiple priorities and milestone-tracking in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment. ### How to join the mission? 🚀 - **First call** with Claudia, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer any questions you may have. (30-45 minutes) - **Interview** with you future manager to dive into the role and ensure it’s a match! (45-60 minutes) - **Business case** for you to complete and present in order to assess your skills for the role and presentation skills. - **Final interview**with a C-level to discuss Malt’s long-term vision.