Finance & Accounting Operations

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 & Strategy Community at Alan

The Finance & Strategy Community conducts critical strategic, data and operational projects.  There are 2 main areas within the finance community: 

• Finance Operations: is the steward of our financial data in charge of building, automating and optimizing Alan's finance processes to ensure efficient and accurate data production and of communicating this to various stakeholders, including the board, team, tax administrations, regulator (ACPR)

• Finance & Strategy: steers Alan’s financial performance through business planning, financial and operational monitoring, strategic explorations and implementation of high P&L impact initiatives; communicates with Board & investors, notably on financing

Both areas have Finance and Business profiles, and work closely in multiple instances, with some Alaners working across both areas. The main focus of the role is within the Finance Operations area. 

⭐️ Your mission ⭐️

We are seeking a forward-thinking, experienced finance professional who can help us design, scale and automate of our finance processes.

You will be responsible for the production and communication of accurate financial data to key stakeholders and consequently for ensuring that all key finance processes are as automated as possible, seamlessly integrated in our broader tech stack

You will working in full autonomy, with the support of the rest of our experienced team and in close collaboration with all our internal teams, helping them monitor and steer their performance and make relevant business decisions.

You will be exposed to a wide variety of topics and stakeholders and you will be core to the scaling of our business.

⭐️ What you will do ⭐️

• Budgeting and Data Reliability: Work closely with the Finance Strategy area, supporting them in the budgeting and financial planning and analysis work

• Scaling and Operational Efficiency: Identify and implement process improvements and automations to enhance information accuracy and compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Assist with finance run activities to maintain efficient operations. Implement new finance tools

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with various teams to offer financial insights on projects and support the implementation of streamlined and automated financial processes. Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to align financial processes with company objectives and drive effective decision-making.

• Strategic Project Contribution: Contribute to ad-hoc strategic projects such as M&A, fundraising, cash management, new tool rollout initiatives

⭐️ Qualifications ⭐️

• Financial process and accounting

• Good knowledge in French accounting (ideally in financial services)

• A first experience in a top accounting firm or in a fast paced scale-up

• As a bonus, experience with optimization and automation of key financial processes

• Analytics:

• Good analytics skills

• As a bonus, basic knowledge in SQL and using AI agents

• Language

• Fluent in spoken and written English, as it is the primary language of communication within the company.

• Proficient in French, given the regulatory requirements and interactions with French-speaking counterparts.

For this role we are looking to hire within the C0-D level range.

🌍 How we work

• Location: You must be based in (or open to relocate to) Paris.

• Work set-up: Hybrid

🎯 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 and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info.

You want to know more about Alan?

• 🙌 Perks & Benefits: 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: 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