FP&A Lead (AI)

Location: Paris, France; onsite

Company

hirify.global is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems for allied forces.

What you will do

• Own group reporting for the board, investors, lenders, advisors, and other third parties, including quarterly board packs and monthly investor updates.
• Build and maintain the group financial model with multiple scenarios, runway and cash-burn models, and tailored analyses for external stakeholders.
• Lead the end-to-end planning cycle across budgeting, reforecasting, challenge, consolidation, and long-term business planning.
• Provide management control across multiple entities and act as a functional counterpart to regional finance managers.
• Structure the finance data foundation, including ERP processes, entity rollout, close and reporting automation, KPI frameworks, and the FP&A calendar.
• Embed AI into analysis, reporting, forecasting, and close workflows within the Group’s data-security framework, while leading and developing the FP&A team and roadmap.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in FP&A or finance leadership, including team management.
• Experience building and owning a board-grade financial model with multiple scenarios.
• Experience running budget and reforecast cycles in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
• Comfort with ERP-driven reporting and automation.
• Hands-on use of AI in finance, including LLM-assisted analysis, modelling support, and reporting automation; ability to verify outputs and drive adoption across a team.
• Credibility with investors and lenders, with the ability to turn numbers into a narrative for an ExCo.
• Background in scale-ups or late-stage tech, or in industrial, aerospace, or defense groups with contract-based economics.
• Hands-on, structured, and rigorous approach, with comfort in a high-growth and ambiguous setting.

Nice to have

• Strong quantitative or finance background through engineering school, business school, or equivalent; track record weighs more than the diploma.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time onsite role based in Paris, France.
• Work on technologies with real-world impact for allied forces.
• High-expectation environment focused on excellence, ambitious goals, rigor, ownership, and execution.
• Opportunity to shape a finance function and its systems during rapid growth following a $200M Series B and a $1.4 billion valuation.