General Accountant / Comptable Général

🪐 Discover our galaxy

Malt is Europe's leading freelancing platform with one clear mission: to give people the freedom to choose who they work with. Co-founded in 2013 by Vincent Huguet, with Alexandre Fretti as o-CEO from 2022 to 2024, Malt is a tech company with a human approach that helps companies and freelancers make the perfect match.

Malt is a marketplace that embraces a community of over 700,000 freelancers and over 70,000 clients, ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to large corporations. More than just a connector, our marketplace streamlines freelancer-client communications, simplifies administrative and legal tasks, expedites invoicing and payments, and so much more.

We are all about giving both freelancers and companies choice and added peace of mind, so that every experience on Malt is nothing less than (inter)stellar. The launch of Malt Strategy in 2023 enabled Malt to broaden its scope by offering the expertise of a network of top independent consultants and transition managers, to better support companies from the strategy to the implementation of ambitious projects.

✨ Malt is also…

- a tech company with a human approach

- a company with a strong culture fueled by 700 Malters from 40+ nationalities, working from 9 countries all around Europe - Germany, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Spain, France, Netherlands, Nordic countries, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

- committed to creating a safe and inclusive space where every employee can thrive both personally and professionally

- committed to equality and diversity (50% of People managers are women)

- a company with strong career path policies allowing all Malters to develop and grow equally

- backed by renowned investors including ISAI, Serena, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs and BPI France

Join us on Planet Malt, we need you to help us write this next chapter! 🪐

At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.

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The Finance department's mission is to put Malt in the best position to reach its profitability ambition while maintaining a high growth.

To do so, we (1) support the business with value-added analysis to make the best possible decisions, (2) facilitate and consolidate the forecasting and budgeting processes and (3) set up and maintain internal control processes, including reporting of our financials for both internal and external stakeholders.

Key responsibilities ✨

• Implement, realize and improve control tools for P&L statements, balance sheet items and analytics
• Participate actively in month-end closing process (closing at WD5)
• Work closely with FP&A to identify and explain fluctuations in monthly financial information
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Integrate the invoices & expense reports into Netsuite 
• Prepare and manage the cut-off bookings (accruals and prepaid expenses)
• Monitor and improve the AP process and the analytic allocation
• Manage the payments to the vendors and employees (expense reports)
• Support the annual year-end audit and any regulatory or tax audits
• Manage the fixed assets (acquisition, depreciation, write-off) in relation to the IT department
• Analyze payroll (booking of payroll entries, provision for paid holidays, provision for bonuses)
• Be the key contact for the Engineering & Product teams on the accounting topics
• Work with the Tax and Cash manager for all tax-related matters in connection with accounting

About you 🧑‍🚀

• At least 4 years of Accounting experience in an equivalent role
• Great rigor and organization skills
• You have a real team spirit and a positive attitude
• Results-oriented and curious to test and improve new processes and organizations
• Mastery of Excel, Netsuite and/or Spendesk is a plus
• Fully Fluent French and English and comfortable in an international environment

How to join the mission? 🚀

• First call with Renée, Lead Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer any questions you may have. (30-45 minutes)
• Interview with Rachida, our Interim Head of Accounting, to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (45-60 minutes)
• Business case to present on-site in order to assess your technical skills
• Final interview with a C-level executive to discuss Malt’s long-term vision

Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally 💫

- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other new joiners at our office in Paris

- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options 

- Lunch vouchers (legal benefit): €9/day on your Swile card

- Transportation (legal benefit): 50% reimbursement (any type of transport)

- Healthcare insurance (legal benefit) 

- RTT: From 8 to 12 days off per year

- Sports: Company participation to a Gymlib membership

- Malt sabbatical: Every three years, all Malters are entitled to a one month fully paid sabbatical leave

- Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow

- Remote work: Hybrid policy balancing on-site and home office

- Team building events organized every year

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