General Accountant - Paris

Role Summary 

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive General Accountant to establish and maintain our accounting systems, manage finances, and ensure compliance with accounting standards and tax regulations. This role is critical in shaping our financial processes and driving our company's growth.

Key Responsibilities 

As our first internal General Accountant, you'll report directly to our Head of Finance. You will collaborate with other departments, such as sales, marketing, and operations, to support business decisions.

Your scope will be global (we currently have offices in France, the UK, and the US) and will be divided as follows:

1/ Accounts Payable and Receivable

• Manage the accounts payable process

• Oversee accounts receivable: Handle customer invoicing, track payments, and manage collections to maintain healthy cash flow.

• Ensure payroll compliance: Work with the payroll department to ensure compliance with tax and labor laws, including accurate recording of payroll expenses.

2/ Financial Management

• Monitor cash flow: Assist in managing cash flow and liquidity by tracking income and expenses.

• Support banking activities: Assist in maintaining banking relationships and ensuring accurate recording of banking transactions.

• Implement internal controls: Contribute to the implementation and maintenance of internal controls to safeguard assets and ensure accurate financial reporting.

• Assist in internal reviews: Participate in internal reviews to identify and address potential financial risks.

3/ Compliance and Regulatory Reporting

• Prepare tax returns: Assist in the preparation and filing of tax returns, including sales tax, property tax, and income tax for entities in France, the UK, and the US.

• Ensure tax compliance: Help ensure compliance with local, state, and federal tax regulations.

• Assist in regulatory reporting: Support the preparation and submission of regulatory filings as needed, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and reporting requirements.

This position will most likely lead to a management / leadership position.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting (French DCG or DSCG), Finance, or a related field

• A total 8-10 years of experience in accounting roles

• Proven experience in a similar role, ideally in a scale-up or corporate environment

• Strong knowledge of GAAP and tax regulations

• Proficiency in accounting software, including SAP

• Experience with international accounting standards (IFRS)

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Bilingualism (French and English)

Benefits

France

🥕 Food: Daily lunch vouchers

🥎 Sport: Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription 

🚴 Transportation: Monthly contribution to a mobility pass

🧑‍⚕️ Health: Full health insurance for you and your family 

🍼 Parental: Generous parental leave policy 

🌎 Visa sponsorship

About Mistral 

At Mistral AI, our mission is to make AI ubiquitous and open. We are passionate about bridging the gap between technology and businesses of all sizes. We are a leading innovator in the field of open-source large language models.

Our advanced LLM solutions can be seamlessly deployed on any cloud, allowing for optimized integration and robust performance. Developers are using our API via la Plateforme to build incredible AI-first applications powered by our models that can understand and generate natural language text and code. We are multilingual at our core. We released le Chat, as a demonstrator of our models.

We are a tight-knit, nimble team dedicated to bringing our cutting-edge AI technology to the world. Our teams are distributed between France, UK and USA. We are creative, low-ego, team-spirited, and have been passionate about AI for years. We hire people who thrive in competitive environments, because they find them more fun to work in. We hire passionate women and men from all over the world.