Accountant at Alan in Paris, Île-de-France, France

YOU. BETTER. WITH ALAN. Alan is building a vertically integrated health partner that unites insurance and smart healthcare delivery into one seamless system. Our vision is to make prevention the new norm of care for all. Our mission: Help people live in good health to 100 while helping employers feel proud, turning health benefits from a cost centre into their most valuable investment. By connecting all aspects of care (private, public, and direct to consumer) we create the most member-centric healthcare experience, reducing claims costs while generating new monetization opportunities. We partner with tens of thousands of companies across France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦, serving over a million members. HOW WE WORK: OUR LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES - Mission is the Boss — We think long-term and are methodical optimists who take risks, seeking our mission's success above all else. - Distributed Ownership — Accountable enlightened despots: everyone owns their decisions and results. - Radical Transparency — All information is accessible and written-first, so everyone can make the best decisions asynchronously. - Always Growing — Direct, positive, and caring feedback, combined with self-growth ownership. 📈 FINANCE COMMUNITY AT ALAN Finance & Strategy exists to enable better decisions, faster, at every level of the company, in a regulated, diverse and ever changing business. We succeed when ambitious goals become credible plans, when strategic bets are grounded in financial reality, and when the entire company (not just Finance!) speaks the language of performance. We set the right ambition, we monitor whether we're getting there, and we raise our hand when something needs to change. We are not record-keepers. We are builders, partners, and challengers. We are looking for people who want to build, support decision making processes and challenge the status quo. The core responsibilities of the Finance & Strategy community are: - Strategy & Planning: steers Alan's financial performance through business planning, financial and operational monitoring, investor relations, financing and M&A - Financial Reporting: is the steward of Alan's financial truth, ensuring that we produce accurate, timely financial data. It owns the reporting to all key stakeholders (board, leadership team, tax authorities, and regulators like the ACPR) and ensures that financial data is the single, uncontested source of truth for the company's performance. - Finance Data and Operations: Build and own the core finance data and tooling infrastructure (models, pipelines, and concepts that connect business operations to financial reality). This is where Finance meets product thinking - Functional poles with end-to-end ownership of their domain: Treasury, Procurement ⭐️ YOUR MISSION ⭐️ We are looking for a rigorous and hands-on accountant to help shape and run Alan's closing production process. You will be part of our Financial Reporting area, focusing on Financial production. This area ensures that every number in our books is accurate, timely, and trustworthy, and serves as the source of truth for all financial decisions across the company. Your role will be twofold: - Run our key accounting processes: Lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end closings - Ensure a feedback loop to drive process improvements, surface anomalies, flag data gaps, and actively contribute to making the closing faster, more automated, and more reliable over time. You will be a key partner to our Financial Operations and Data teams. ⭐️ WHAT YOU WILL DO ⭐️ - Month-end close: own the end-to-end closing cycle across multiple legal entities; push pre-formatted journal entries into NetSuite, ensure completeness and accuracy, and deliver on schedule every month (target: J+5) - Accounting review: perform a thorough first-level review of balance sheet and P&L accounts at each close; identify unusual movements, resolve discrepancies, and ensure the overall reliability of the financial statements - Account and bank reconciliation: maintain clean, up-to-date reconciliations across all balance sheet accounts and entities on a daily basis; flag and follow up on any discrepancies proactively - Tax and statutory compliance: prepare and file VAT returns, URSSAF declarations, and other statutory filings accurately and on time; coordinate with external advisors where needed - Contribute to finance transformation and system improvements: flag inconsistencies surfaced during the production cycle back to Financial Data, identify manual or repetitive tasks and collaborate with Financial Data to drive automation and reduce closing friction over time ⭐️ QUALIFICATIONS ⭐️ Experience and technical skills - 4 to 6 years of accounting experience minimum, in an accounting firm or in-house at a fast-paced startup/scale-up - Languages: full fluency in French and English - Deep command of French accounting standards: VAT rules, URSSAF declarations, bank reconciliation, general ledger management, and month-end close processes - Proven ability to own a closing cycle end-to-end, including identifying and resolving issues independently - Hands-on experience with an ERP (NetSuite is a strong plus) - Comfortable with spreadsheets (Google Sheets or Excel); familiarity with modern accounting tools (Pennylane, Payflows, etc.) is a plus Mindset and soft skills - Reliable and detail-oriented: you deliver on time, every time, and keep a clean audit trail - Autonomous and self-directed: you don't wait to be told what to do next; you manage your priorities, make decisions independently, and know how to take a step back to distinguish what truly matters from day-to-day noise - Process-driven: you naturally question how things are done and come with concrete ideas to improve them - Curious about automation and tooling; comfortable working in a data-driven environment - Clear communicator: you know when to move independently and when to escalate For this role we are looking to hire within the C1-E level range https://alan.com/en/careers/a/salary-equity. 🌍 HOW WE WORK - Location: You must be legally eligible to work from France. - Remote work: We offer remote work flexibility, but we value in-person collaboration 🎯 IMPORTANT NOTE: WE HIRE PEOPLE, NOT ROLES. If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply, as it can only bring learnings or success. If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements? Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist. We'll be thrilled to receive your application! 🔖 Check out our About Alan https://alan.com/about and Career https://alan.com/careers pages, as well as our Medium https://medium.com/alan, blog https://blog.alan.com/ and Glassdoor page https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Alan-EI_IE1696043.11,15.htm for more info. YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ALAN? - 🙌 Perks & Benefits https://alan.com/en/careers/a/salary-equity: Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers. - 🤘A strong culture https://alan.com/en/about/a/leadership-principles: People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work