Global Purchase-to-pay Leader

Contentsquare is a global digital analytics company empowering the brands you interact with every day to build better online experiences for all. Since our founding in France in 2012, we have grown to be a truly global and distributed team - known as the CSquad - representing more than 70 nationalities across the world.

In 2022, we raised $600M in Series F funding and were recognised as a certified Great Place to Work in France, Germany, Israel, US and UK.

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**About the job**:
Reporting to the VP Corporate Controller based in Paris, you are responsible for the PTP (Purchase to Pay) stream for the entire Group (25+ legal entities across 17 countries). Managing a team of 10 AP accountants based in 4 countries, you are responsible for the Purchase to Pay processes, including Purchasing operations, Accounts Payable, Travel & Expenses, P-card programs.

**What you’ll do**:

- Be responsible for designing, formalizing, implementing and enforcing best-in-class Purchase-to Pay processes across Contentsquare Group globally.
- Be responsible for all aspects of processing Suppliers invoices, Travel & Expenses, Purchasing Cards, for all the Company’s entities globally
- Lead and coordinate the PTP team, including Accounts Payables and Purchasing Operations (the latter to be created), based in various geographies (France, US, UK, Israel primarily) to ensure the entire Purchase-to-Pay process is seamlessly integrated, as automated as possible and in a timely manner.
- Partner with Sourcing teams to ensure best-in-class purchasing experience, for both external suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Animate the requestors community, develop relevant training materials and ensure proper and regular communication to all stakeholders.
- Deploy and improve PTP systems (Ivalua, Concur for T&E) and associated operational processes. Take an active role, as PTP Business Process Owner, in the design and implementation of the new core finance ERP system (Workday Financials) based on standardized best practices approach.
- Collaborate with Corporate Accounting teams to ensure the Company’s monthly, quarterly and annual financial closing is performed accurately and timely, in a Smartclose environment, while ensuring all internal control procedures are performed across your scope.
- Play an active role in the leadership team of the Corporate Controlling & Accounting organization, alongside other peer leaders.
- Support the integration of acquisitions in accordance with Contentsquare’s PTP process and policies
- Assist the external audit team regarding all quarterly and annual audit requirements

**What you’ll need to succeed**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance
- Proven track record in leading Global or Regional PTP operations and management, in international companies and ideally in a Shared Services environment with a global core model.
- Demonstrated experience in people management in international context
- Excellent communication and motivational skills
- Fluent in English, both spoken and written. Professional French is a strong plus
- Ability, willingness and taste to work in a fast-paced global environment
- Focused on implementing best practices for PTP processes with a strong continuous improvement mindset.
- Proactive self-starter who is disciplined, organized, thorough and has the ability to work with autonomy, attention to detail and proactivity in a team environment.
- Proven ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced environment, to perform under pressure and meet non-negotiable deadlines

**What makes you stand out**:

- Experience working in the Tech sector is beneficial but not essential.
- Knowledge of a best-of-breed PTP tool (Ivalua, Coupa,) is preferred

**Why you should join Contentsquare**:

- ️ We’re humans first. We hire dedicated people and provide them with the trust, resources and flexibility to get the job done.
- ️ We invest in our people through career development, mentorship, social events, philanthropic activities, and competitive benefits.
- ️ We are a fast growing company with a track record of success over the past 10 years, yet we operate with the agility of a startup. That means a huge chance to create an immediate and lasting impact.
- ️ Our clients, partners and investors love our industry-leading product.

**To keep our employees happy and engaged, we are always assessing the benefits/perks we offer to ensure we are competitive. Here are a few we want to highlight**:

- ️ Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year.
- ️ Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies.
- ️ Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different).