Accountant (French Accounting)

Location: Paris, France; hybrid work with remote flexibility. You must be legally eligible to work from France.

Company

hirify.global builds prevention insurance by integrating insurance, prevention, and care into a single user experience, serving more than 1M members and partnering with 40K+ companies.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing cycle across multiple legal entities, targeting completion by J+5.
• Push pre-formatted journal entries into NetSuite and review bhirify.globalce sheet and P&L accounts for completeness, accuracy, and unusual movements.
• Maintain daily account and bank reconciliations and build verification routines and control procedures.
• Identify manual or repetitive work and collaborate with Financial Data and Operations to automate processes and improve closing reliability.
• Translate new business streams and P&L lines into accounting and act as an interface between business teams and Finance.
• Prepare VAT returns, URSSAF declarations, and other statutory filings, coordinating with external advisors when needed.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of accounting experience in an accounting firm or in-house at a fast-paced startup or scale-up.
• Full fluency in French and English.
• Deep command of French accounting standards, including VAT rules, URSSAF declarations, bank reconciliation, general ledger management, and month-end close processes.
• Proven ability to own a closing cycle end-to-end and identify and resolve issues independently.
• Hands-on experience with an ERP.
• Comfortable working with Google Sheets or Excel.
• Reliable, detail-oriented, autonomous, process-driven, and able to communicate clearly and escalate when needed.
• Curiosity about automation and tooling and comfort working in a data-driven environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with NetSuite.
• Familiarity with modern accounting tools such as Pennylane or Payflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with remote flexibility and an emphasis on in-person collaboration.
• Work in a stimulating environment focused on efficient, high-quality collaboration.
• Innovative working methods supported by defined cultural values.
• Inclusive environment encouraging applications even when every requirement is not met.