Accounting Controller

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar’s vision is to bring fairness, freedom and fraternity to the world of travel. 

BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 75 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network. 

Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018  a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too! 

In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience. 

BlaBlaCar offers a truly and unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven. 

Job Description

Why join us?

As our future Accounting Controller, you will be joining the BlaBlaCar Finance team and work in a multicultural environment with skilled, friendly and dedicated colleagues, whose mission is to structure, analyze and forecast BlaBlaCar’s activity and financials.

Reporting to the Financial Control Manager and leading a team of 4 Financial Controllers your role will be to review, maintain and produce accounts for the entities of the BlaBlaCar Group, produce reliable reports and follow-ups in order to ensure BlaBlaCar’s financial health and growth. You will act as a business partner to various managers across the organisation to ensure access to reliable and accurate accounting and financial metrics.

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Post, maintain and follow-up accounting journals;

  • Manage the Monthly Financial Reporting;

  • Prepare monthly reviews and analysis of the Balance Sheet;

  • Partner with other team members (Cost Centre Managers, Finance Ops, FP&A, Tax, BI & Data) for the correct follow up of our accounting;

  • Participate in the preparation of Financial Statements and in the audits of the group;

  • Constantly improve our processes to ensure proper accounting and reliable financial information;

  • Train the team

Qualifications

What do you need to be successful:

  • 3-5 years of successful experience in Auditing or Accounting (experience in an accounting Big 4 company will be a plus)
  • Accounting/Finance degree;

  • Fluent in Excel (Workday Finance knowledge will be a huge plus);

  • Fluent in English (additional languages such as German, Portuguese & Russian will be a plus);

  • Rigorous, resilient and detail-oriented 

  • Demonstrates good people and management skills

  • Strong grasp of business and financial statements: P&L ownership, Cash-flow and Balance Sheet strong understanding;

  • Outstanding analytical skills, agile and hands-on, committed to making an impact;

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris

  • Contract: Permanent contract

  • Compensation: Competitive package based on experience

What we offer all of our employees

  • The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too. 

  • A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture  

  • An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw)

  • State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location

  • A start-up spirit grounded in agility & teamwork 

  • Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment 

  • Bi-Weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn from each other

  • Weekly Tech Demos, so that we’re all up to date with where our product stands

And some other great perks!

  • Free carpooling and bus rides to live our value “Be The Member”. 

  • BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend every 18 months

  • Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap)