Senior Consultant Special Situations Advisory HF

Our team specialises in highvalue sensitive and timecritical situations supporting C-level leadership in environments where complexity uncertainty and compressed decision horizons are high. We intervene across a broad and diverse scope working transversally on financial accounting and operational issues including:

• Operational diagnostics in subsidiaries in difficult situations: degraded financial information restricted access to key interlocutors management or governance failures or post-acquisition environments with limited visibility.
• Accounting reconstruction and remediation: rebuilding financial statements after a system failure correcting material accounting errors under time pressure ahead of closing or audit deadlines.
• Financial reporting and KPI implementation: establishing reliable reporting lines between headquarters and geographically distant or politically complex subsidiaries.
• Crisis and profit warning management: assisting boards and senior management in quantifying accounting impacts establishing short term action plans and stabilising operations.
• Interim finance leadership: temporarily taking charge of a finance function to bridge a critical gap created by an abrupt departure a serious dysfunction or a post-acquisition integration challenge.
• Setting up and winding down structures: assisting clients in establishing new entities or operations in complex countries (subsidiary openings in Africa Latin America Asia post-M&A take-overs) as well as managing closures demergers workforce reduction plans (PSE RCC PDV) and the financial legal and operational consequences of ceasing or scaling down activities.
• Complex project management (PMO): providing a structured on-the-ground project management office where no governance framework exists and critical deadlines are at risk.

Qualifications :

We are looking for professionals ready to step into complex high-stakes situations with composure and rigour. Candidates will typically:

• Hold a Masters degree from a leading business or engineering school or an equivalent university degree with a strong foundation in finance or accounting;
• Have completed at least three full annual cycles (seasons) in external financial audit or advisory within a leading firm (Big Four or equivalent) with exposure to complex clients multi-entity engagements and/or international assignments;
• Demonstrate strong technical expertise in finance fundamentals financial statement analysis and accounting standards (incl. IFRS US GAAP French GAAP);
• Show a strong interest in operational and international assignments including the capacity to be deployed quickly and work effectively in unfamiliar environments;
• Be comfortable operating in crisis or high-pressure situations with the ability to maintain strong analytical rigor with limited information;
• Demonstrate a proactive and entrepreneurial mindset strong synthesis skills and excellent written and verbal communication abilities;
• Be a genuine team player with excellent interpersonal skills a developed sense of client orientation and the ability to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics;
• Be proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint with the ability to create clear and compelling presentations experience with data analytics tools is a plus;
• Have full professional proficiency in English (written and spoken) as well as proficiency in at least one additional language (e.g. Spanish German Portuguese Mandarin Russian Italian or another relevant language);
• Have at least an intermediate level of proficiency in French.

Location

You will be based in Paris at Forvis Mazars campus in LevalloisPerret. The role involves frequent onsite assignments often scheduled at short notice and primarily conducted overseas. Candidates should be fully prepared to spend several consecutive weeks abroad with limited advance notice.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time