Wakam
Senior FP&A Analyst – Expenses Controlling & Consolidation
TLDR
Data-driven finance professional delivering end-to-end expenses controlling, consolidation, and cost optimisation with high visibility and strategic impact.
🚀 About the Team
The Group FP&A team is a small, high-impact team at the heart of Wakam’s financial steering and strategic decision-making.
Its role is to provide Executive Management and operational leaders with clear, reliable and forward-looking financial insights, while supporting budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, quarterly closings, cost control, consolidation and continuous improvement of Finance processes and tools.
As FP&A Analyst – Expenses Controlling & Consolidation, you report directly to the FP&A Director and work closely with Accounting, Cash, Group Finance, operational leaders, VPs, Chiefs and budget owners across Wakam.
This is a senior individual contributor role with strong visibility and direct impact on how Wakam monitors, explains and optimises its cost base across the French perimeter.
🎯 Your Mission
The mission of the FP&A Analyst – Expenses Controlling & Consolidation is to deliver accurate, insightful and actionable financial analysis to support Executive Management and business leaders in their decision-making.
The role owns end-to-end expenses controlling across Wakam’s French entities, covering consolidation of the French perimeter, expense analysis by nature, department and destination, cost allocation, intercompany rebilling, budgeting, forecasting and business partnering with budget owners.
This position is key to ensuring robust financial planning, reliable reporting and disciplined cost management across the organisation.
✏️ Your Responsibilities
Business Partnering
- Act as the day-to-day Finance business partner for operational and support function leaders, including Chiefs, VPs and budget owners, on their expenses scope.
- This includes helping teams understand their financial results, translating budget versus actuals into clear business language, and supporting them in steering their cost base.
- The role also involves constructively challenging spending requests, budget submissions and reforecasts to ensure alignment with Wakam’s strategy, priorities and financial trajectory.
- Building trust-based relationships with stakeholders is central to the position, in order to anticipate business needs, identify risks and opportunities early, and influence decision-making through clear financial insight.
Expenses Controlling & Allocation
- For each monthly reporting, quarterly closing, budget and forecast cycle, the role is responsible for setting up, monitoring and analysing expense reporting across the full French perimeter.
- The analysis covers expenses by nature, department, cost centre, destination, entity and consolidated French perimeter.
- A key part of the role is to build and challenge expense budgets and forecasts for operational and support functions across French entities. This includes reviewing allocation assumptions, intercompany rebilling plans and consistency with Wakam’s strategy.
- The role also covers variance analysis by nature, destination and entity, definition of action plans with budget owners, and follow-up of implementation.
- A strong contribution to cost optimisation is expected, with a focus on spend efficiency, savings tracking and financial discipline.
French Perimeter Consolidation & Intercompany Management
- Centralise, review and consolidate expense data from all French entities, ensuring full perimeter coverage and proper reconciliation with Accounting.
- The role helps ensure consistency across management practices, chart of accounts, cost allocation rules, intercompany flows and intragroup rebillings.
- It also owns the alignment of intercompany flows and intragroup rebillings, including identification, reconciliation and elimination.
- Consolidated expense analyses by entity, nature and destination are produced in collaboration with the FP&A team, with recommendations to improve financial performance, reporting quality and cost allocation processes.
Continuous Improvement & Tools
- The role contributes to the professionalisation and scaling of the controlling function.
- This includes improving reporting, closing and planning processes, as well as making the best use of Finance tools such as Sage, Pigment and other reporting solutions.
- A strong focus is placed on automating reporting, improving data reliability, reducing manual work and proposing new performance indicators that are relevant to the business.
- The position also supports the use of AI, automation and digital tools to streamline recurring tasks, improve variance analysis and enable faster, more reliable decision-making.
🧠 What You Bring
The ideal candidate brings at least 5 years of experience in FP&A, controlling or financial planning, ideally with a strong focus on expenses controlling, cost allocation and multi-entity consolidation.
- Strong analytical and synthesis skills are essential, with the ability to make complex financial topics understandable for non-finance stakeholders.
- The role requires confidence in acting as a trusted business partner to operational and senior stakeholders, providing day-to-day support while constructively challenging assumptions, spending requests and action plans.
- Advanced Excel skills and strong command of financial systems and tools are required. Experience with Sage and/or Pigment is a plus.
- Experience in the insurance sector is an advantage, but not mandatory.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is required in this international environment.
Strong experience is expected in:
- Expense controlling
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Cost allocation
- Intercompany flows and rebillings
- Multi-entity financial reporting
- Consolidated analysis and management reporting
✨ Who You Are
- You are a strong Finance professional combining rigour, business curiosity and stakeholder impact.
- Structured, autonomous and reliable, you bring a strong sense of ownership and know how to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and international environment.
- You enjoy working closely with business teams, helping them understand financial performance and supporting better decision-making.
- You are also comfortable challenging stakeholders constructively, using data, analysis and business understanding to support your recommendations.
- A proactive, solution-oriented mindset and a genuine interest in improving processes, tools and collaboration will be key to success in this role.
✨ 🤖 AI & Digital Mindset
At Wakam, AI, automation and digital transformation are reshaping how Finance works.
This role offers the opportunity to use digital and AI-enabled tools to streamline recurring reporting tasks, improve data consolidation and variance analysis, automate management reporting, strengthen cost allocation and reconciliation processes, and build more reliable financial insights.
No technical AI expertise is required. What matters most is curiosity, adaptability and willingness to learn, combined with a strong Finance mindset and a desire to improve the way things work.
🌟 Why Join Wakam?
Joining Wakam as FP&A Analyst – Expenses Controlling & Consolidation means taking on a highly visible Finance role with direct impact on cost steering, financial discipline and strategic decision-making.
This role offers:
- An international and multicultural environment
- A high level of autonomy and responsibility
- Strong exposure to senior stakeholders and Executive Management
- The opportunity to contribute to the development of the Group Finance function
- Exposure to international projects and cross-functional initiatives
- A culture of innovation, continuous improvement and ownership
- Remote work flexibility within a modern, inclusive and dynamic company culture
This is a strong opportunity for a senior FP&A or controlling professional looking to combine business partnering, analytical depth, consolidation, cost optimisation and transformation in a fast-growing insurance company.
🏆 Hiring Process
Our hiring process is designed to be transparent, efficient and respectful of your time.
The process will be confirmed with shortlisted candidates and may include:
- Initial interview with our Talent Acquisition team
- Interview with our Director FP&A
- Technical or business case discussion focused on expenses controlling, consolidation and stakeholder management
- Final HR interview with People Partner
=> Welcome @Wakam 🚀
More About Us
Check out our website to learn about the 11 cultural markers that make Wakam truly special! If you're adventurous, impact-driven, and ready to shape the future of insurance, we'd love to meet you!
💫 What Makes Us Unique:
• True remote work flexibility with our Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program - yes, we even have a teammate working from a sailboat! ⛵
• Flat hierarchical system promoting direct impact and autonomy 🚀
• Monthly Free.day: dedicated time for personal growth and skills development 📚
• Lunch voucher with Swile card
• A meaningful company: we became a Mission-driven company in March 2021
• Work alongside passionate experts: who will share their knowledge and help you develop and grow in your career.
At Wakam, our "Free to Impact" culture is built on four essential pillars that shape everything we do :
🗣️ Communication & Knowledge Management
• Foster transparent collaboration across our flat organizational structure
• Share knowledge freely in our highly collaborative environment
• Contribute to our collective intelligence through open dialogue
🔍 Curiosity
• Embrace our monthly Free.day for learning and skills sponsorship
• Think big and challenge conventional insurance norms
• Stay eager to learn and explore new possibilities
🔄 Continuous Improvement
• Take initiative to transform the insurance industry
• Turn challenges into opportunities for innovation
• Constantly evolve our ways of working
🎯 Outcome Oriented
• Focus on impact rather than hierarchy
• Drive results through clear objectives and autonomy
• Transform bold ideas into concrete solutions
At Wakam, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to your recruiter.
Benefits
Lunch voucher with Swile card
Paid Time Off
Monthly Free.day: dedicated time for personal growth and skills development
Remote-Friendly
Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program
Wakam builds innovative white-label insurance solutions through its proprietary Play&Plug® technology platform, catering to over 80 partners across Europe. As a leader in digital and embedded insurance operating in 32 countries, Wakam excels in providing seamless API-driven products that integrate easily into existing systems.
Senior FP&A Analyst