Interim Financial Controller

Interim Financial Controller

Interim management is an effective managerial solution for companies of all sizes to deal with an unprecedented situation, a managerial emergency or to accelerate their transformation.

MANAGERIM, expert in interim management, provides you with interim managers specialized in financial control everywhere in France and internationally.

Our community of financial controllers is constituted of interim managers with:

• a strong background in finance and accounting
• organizational skills
• an analytical and synthetic thinking
• a very good knowledge of various management software tools (SAP, ACCESS, Hyperion HFM...)
• and good communication skills

Our interim managers are men and women selected after a rigorous and demanding process, as much for their expertise as for their interpersonal skills.

The missions of an interim financial controller

The interim financial controller supervises all accounting and financial aspects of a company, a subsidiary, a site or a line of business.

He/she is also the guardian of the financial procedures within the company through regular budgetary checks and audits, and the guardian of the conformity and reliability of the company's accounts within his/her scope of intervention.

Depending on the company, the missions can include many responsibilities:

• Financial analysis and forecasting for future financial statements
• Budgetary certification of accounts
• Preparation of the company's corporate and tax accounts and all related declarations
• Management of the entire budgetary process in relation with the entity's operational departments
• Management of the cash position and follow-up of relations with the banks
• Validation of investment projects (financial justification, ROI study) and monitoring of fixed assets (commissioning, control of ROI...)

Why should you ask for the services of an interim manager financial controller from our interim management firm MANAGERIM?

Our interim managers, experts in financial control, have previous successful experience:

• on various industrial or tertiary sites of all sizes,
• in high-stakes situations (downsizing, hypergrowth, transformation, turnaround, restructuring...),

... which allows them to adapt rapidly to new contexts and to be immediately operational.

Our financial controllers operate as Business Partners and are involved in high value-added assignments in a variety of situations:

• Temporarily replacing a financial controller at short notice (plant financial controller, commercial controller, project management controller, director or head of controlling...)
• Managing the financial teams under their responsibility (financial controllers, accountants...)
• Ensuring the responsibility of controlling (closing, budget forecast, treasury, reporting) as well as the supervision of statutory accounting, cash management and tax review (VAT...)
• Assessing Risks and Opportunities that may impact financial results and monitoring margins
• Provide support to various departments (management, production, sales, etc.)
• Strengthening and improving the reliability of closing and forecasting processes
• Implementing new reporting to better manage the activity
• Driving a cost reduction plan
• Participating in the turnaround of a site in operational or financial difficulty (action plan to improve profitability and cash flow)
• Implementing a new ERP or a new accounting system
• Implementing the operational roll-out at local level of projects initiated by the Group Finance Department
• Ensuring the follow-up of specific projects (investments, major projects, etc.)
• Managing a crisis
• Leading change

Throughout their assignments, our interim managers are supported by one of our partners, who guarantees the quality of the assignment and the methodology developed by MANAGERIM.