Controller, Finance & Banking, Financial Analyst

Country Controller

Akuo is a French producer of renewable energy (wind, solar, and storage). The Group is present throughout the value chain: from development to operation, through financing and construction. By the end of 2025, Akuo has a total capacity in operation and under construction of 2.1 GW and a portfolio of projects of more than 10 GW. With more than 450 employees, the Group, whose headquarters is in Paris, develops projects in more than fifteen countries in the world, mainly in Europe and America.

In the Indian Ocean, Akuo has been operating for more than 15 years through its Réunion subsidiary, Akuo Energy Indian Ocean, which coordinates the group's activities in Réunion, Mauritius, and Mayotte. The region currently has 17 photovoltaic power plants in operation, representing 63 MWc solar and 42 MWh of storage, as well as a portfolio of projects under development and construction.

Reporting to the Services Controling Director, you will work on a scope focused on the management control of local holdings and service activities of the Indian Ocean zone, as well as on the financial follow-up of development projects.

This position is set in an international, matrix, and evolving environment that requires autonomy, rigor, and the ability to interact with multiple stakeholders.

The main challenge of the position is to ensure the continuity of controlling activities on the local scope, with a quick take-over and a high level of autonomy.

Your missions

• Management control of holdings and service activities
• Monitor the financial performance of two local operating holdings and the services provided by these entities
• Produce and analyze monthly reports
• Compare actual performance to budgets, forecasts, and history
• Analyze variances, identify anomalies, and propose appropriate corrective actions
• Contribute to the reliability of management data and continuous improvement of indicators, reports, and management tools
• Follow-up of development costs
• Monitor external expenses related to development projects
• Verify the correct analytical allocation of costs in the accounting
• Control the consistency of expenses compared to annual, multi-annual budgets, and engagement authorizations
• Produce regular reporting of development costs by project
• Provide readability on the economic performance of monitored projects
• Analysis and support to management
• Develop analyses to "tell the performance" of the activity
• Identify significant variances and investigate if necessary down to the details of the concerned pieces or flows
• Accompany operational teams in understanding figures and economic issues
• Participate in coordination with accounting, tax, SSO teams and external partners involved in accounting and tax issues
• Transverse coordination

You work closely with:

• Project development teams in Réunion
• Local maintenance and operations teams
• Supervision maintenance teams
• Asset controllers of the zone
• Finance, tax, SSO teams and external partners involved in accounting and tax issues

We are looking for a profile that can be quickly operational, autonomous, and comfortable in an environment where processes exist but require flexibility, discernment, and coordination.

Experience

• You have at least 5 years of experience in management control, financial control, or corporate finance
• You have necessarily confirmed experience in analytical management control
• You may have started your career in accounting, provided you have then significantly evolved towards management control
• You are comfortable in environments that are not totally industrialized, in transformation, with a strong operational dimension

Technical skills

• Excellent mastery of Excel: dynamic cross tables, V searches, structuring, and analysis of large volumes of data
• Good understanding of the functioning of an ERP and ability to navigate an integrated system to extract, reconcile, and analyze data
• Comfort with data tools / querying and ability to exploit existing extractions or queries (type Power BI)
• Solid fundamentals in management control: budget, forecast, variance analysis, reading financial statements, clear presentation of analyses
• A accounting polish is…