Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Paris
Experience
Lead / principal · 10+ years
Job description
Lead group FP&A at Harmattan AI, owning reporting, modelling, planning, systems and the FP&A team during rapid growth. The role builds the architecture of a finance function still being defined and serves as the reference point for numbers and analysis for the board, investors, lenders and ExCo.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Paris
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Own group reporting to the board, investors and third parties, including the quarterly board pack and monthly investor update.
- Build tailored models and figures for lenders, prospective investors and advisors.
- Architect the financial model as one source with several scenarios, plus the runway and cash burn model with Treasury.
- Orchestrate the end-to-end planning cycle: budget, reforecast, challenge, consolidation and the long-term business plan.
- Provide management control across the group's entities as one of the functional counterparts of regional finance managers.
- Structure the finance data foundation: ERP data and processes, entity rollout, close and reporting automation, KPI framework and FP&A calendar.
- Embed AI into FP&A workflows (analysis, reporting, forecasting and close automation), within the Group's data security framework.
- Model strategic scenarios such as new countries, M&A and cross-perimeter arbitrations.
- Lead and develop the FP&A team, and build its roadmap in alignment with the wider finance roadmap.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A or finance leadership, including team management.
- Track record of building and owning a board-grade financial model with several scenarios.
- Experience running budget and reforecast cycles in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
- Comfort with ERP-driven reporting and automation.
- Hands-on use of AI in finance work (LLM-assisted analysis, modelling support, reporting automation), with the rigor to verify outputs and the ability to drive adoption across a team.
- Credibility with investors and lenders, and the ability to turn numbers into a narrative for an ExCo.
- Background in scale-ups or late-stage tech, or in industrial, aerospace or defense groups with contract-based economics.
- Hands-on, structured and rigorous, at ease in a high-growth, ambiguous setting.
Nice to have
- Strong quantitative or finance background (engineering school, business school or equivalent) preferred; track record weighs more than the diploma.
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About Harmattan AI
Next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems
Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following the close of a $200M Series B, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, it is expanding its teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.
Key facts
- Defense
- Closed a $200M Series B
- Valued at $1.4 billion
- Delivers mission-critical systems to allied forces
What they value
- Building technologies with real-world impact
- Pursuing excellence in everything we do
- Setting ambitious goals
- Taking on the hardest technical challenges