FP&A Business Partner

The Situation: Malt is shaping the "New Way of Work" as Europe’s leading B2B freelance marketplace, scaling rapidly as a flagship member of the French Next40 with over 600 employees, more than 1 million freelancers on the platform, and an accelerating international growth trajectory. To sustain this hyper-growth while driving long-term profitability, financial rigor must operate at the very core of strategic decision-making. As our tech ecosystem scales, Malt’s leadership requires deep, continuous visibility into R&D capital allocation, complex infrastructure spending, and ESG sustainability reporting to guarantee that every euro invested delivers maximum return.

The Task: Act as the dedicated Strategic Financial Business Partner to our CTO and CPO (50% scope) while architecting our modern financial planning infrastructure, automation workflows, and ESG reporting frameworks (50% scope). You will own investment governance across Tech & Product OpEx and CapEx under IFRS frameworks, master advanced scenario modeling and app-building on Pigment, and deploy AI-driven financial automations to establish an institutional-grade financial engine that scales with Malt.

Pillar 1. Tech & Product Strategic Business Partnering & Investment Governance

• Action: Partner directly with the CTO and CPO to challenge investment assumptions, evaluate business cases, and manage full lifecycle financial planning for engineering initiatives, cloud/IT infrastructure, and software capitalization.
   

• Output: Institutionalized business review processes, comprehensive project business cases with documented ROI/NPV models, and strategic budget allocations.
  
  

• Metrics: 100% of new Tech & Product initiatives vetted with documented ROI/NPV models prior to commitment; Variance minimization between Budget/Rolling Forecast vs. Actuals.
  
  

Pillar 2. Financial Accounting Rigor & Regulatory Compliance

• Action: Lead the accounting and compliance framework for R&D capitalization under IAS 38 and oversee timesheet governance.
  
  

• Output: Auditable capitalization workflows, accurate amortization schedules, and ironclad technical project accounting schedules.
  
  

• Metrics: Zero audit findings on IAS 38 compliance; 100% timesheet tracking compliance across technical teams.
  
  

Pillar 3. Financial Infrastructure Architecture & Process Automation

• Action: Design, build and maintain dedicated enterprise planning applications within Pigment, deploying AI and workflow automations.
  
  

• Output: Production-grade Pigment models and automated reporting pipelines.
  
  

• Metrics: 100% on-time deployment and company-wide adoption of internal Pigment apps; Measurable hours saved and reduction in manual cycle times via AI and Pigment automations.
  
  

Pillar 4. ESG External Reporting & Sustainability Forecasting

• Action: Build and maintain the cross-functional data collection and compliance mechanisms required for external ESG disclosure frameworks.
  
  

• Output: Regulatory-compliant ESG reporting packages, dynamic carbon/ESG monitoring dashboards, and forward-looking sustainability forecasts.
  
  

• Metrics: 100% on-time submission of ESG external regulatory reports with zero audit discrepancies.

Proven Mastery (What you have already built):

• Minimum 5 years of dedicated FP&A, controlling, or project finance experience within a fast-moving tech scale-up or international environment.
   

• Direct experience steering financial governance for engineering, IT, or product teams, serving as a trusted advisor to senior technical executives.
  
  

• Deep technical accounting mastery of IFRS standards, specifically IAS 38 software capitalization lifecycles, with a track record of clean audit sign-offs.
  
  

• Built complex, dynamic financial models and multi-dimensional planning tools from the ground up (prior experience with Pigment or modern FP&A platforms like Anaplan is a strong advantage).
   

• Full bilingual operational fluency in both French and English, capable of challenging senior leadership and writing board-level materials in both languages.
  
  

Skills You Will Deploy & Develop:

• Advanced multidimensional enterprise architecture and modeling on Pigment

• Executive-level business partnering, steering R&D portfolio allocation and capital efficiency directly with C-level product and technology leaders.
  
  

• End-to-end ESG regulatory reporting integration, translating non-financial data into institutional-grade reporting frameworks.

• This role is perfect for you if...

  • Thrive on being a trusted strategic co-pilot, comfortable sitting down with engineering leads to constructively challenge project assumptions, unit economics, and tech spend.
    
    

  • Love modern finance technology and prefer architecting scalable models in platforms like Pigment over relying on static, disconnected spreadsheets.
    
    

  • Embody high agency and radical ownership—you actively look for inefficiencies, initiate system improvements, and turn ambiguity into clear, automated processes.
     

• This role is NOT for you if...

  • Prefer passive reporting and back-office bookkeeping rather than engaging in dynamic, cross-functional business partnering with technical leaders.
    
    

  • Expect static, pre-built financial processes and feel uncomfortable building workflows from scratch.

  • View finance in isolation from company culture, struggling to communicate complex financial constraints

• Day 30: Immerse yourself in Malt’s business model and culture, building strong relationships with the finance team, CTO, and CPO. Audit the existing Tech & Product cost centers, map current IAS 38 capitalization workflows, and complete initial onboarding onto Malt’s Pigment environment to baseline the Tech & Product forecast.
  
  

• Day 90: Assume full financial stewardship of the Tech & Product budget, leading rolling forecast cadences and establishing clear ROI/NPV evaluation gates for new engineering projects. Deploy your first dedicated Pigment applications (including IFRS 2/IFRS 16 modeling) and stabilize data collection pipelines for ESG reporting milestones.
  
  

• Day 180: Operate with total autonomy as the strategic finance leader for Tech & Product, delivering predictable rolling forecasts and driving clean audit compliance across all CapEx lifecycles. Champion continuous process efficiency by rolling out AI-assisted automations across financial planning workflows, maximizing return on technology investments across Malt.

• First call with Claudia, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer any questions you may have. (30-45 minutes)

• Interview with you future manager to dive into the role and ensure it’s a match (45-60 minutes)

• Business case for you to complete and present in order to assess your skills for the role and presentation skills.

• Final interview with a C-level to discuss Malt’s long-term vision.