Lead FP&A

Akur8 is a fast-growing Insur Tech scale-up on a mission to help insurers make better decisions, faster.

Our SaaS platform turns complex risk data into clear, transparent insights, enabling teams to price risk accurately today and anticipate claims tomorrow.

Powered by advanced analytics and transparent machine learning, Akur8 brings speed, reliability, and clarity to critical insurance decisions - developed by multidisciplinary teams in product, engineering, and actuarial expertise.

Recognized globally, Akur8 has been featured in:

* CB Insights' Insurtech 50 (2025)

* CNBC's Insur Tech Top 150 (2025)

* Insur Tech
100 Global Insurtech Top 100 (2025)

* Professional Equality Index 97/100 (2025)

With 40+ nationalities across 8 global offices, we serve 320+ clients across 4 continents - scaling rapidly in mature insurance markets.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, assessing all applications fairly based on skills, experience, and potential. Diversity, equality, and inclusion are core to who we are.

We're seeking a hands-on and detail-oriented Lead FP&A to reinforce our finance team. This role is central to our financial operations, with a strong focus on monthly reporting, internal audit implementation, cloud cost tracking, investor communication, ESG tracking, and project support.

This role is focused on assisting the CFO in driving the company towards its long term goals. As part of the Finance function, you will be working closely with the rest of the team (Finance, Admin & Legal) and of the company (Department Heads…). You will be responsible for (but not limited to):

Budget and outlook:

* Own the annual budget process end-to-end, including coordination with all departments

* Lead the monthly forecasting process

* Build and maintain robust financial models to support planning, scenario analysis, and decision-making

Business analysis and support to decision:

* Monitor actual performance versus budget and forecast, identify variances, and provide clear recommendations

* Produce high-quality analysis on revenue, headcount, operating expenses, productivity, and profitability

* Prepare management reporting materials with clear insights on performance, risks, and opportunities

* Define, track, and continuously refine the company's core financial and business KPIs, in collaboration with the COO team

* Manage investors regulatory reporting

Budget tracking:

* Support the CFO in steering the company toward its profitability objectives

* Strengthen budget tracking and cost control processes while keeping them pragmatic and adapted to a startup context

Projects / Other :

* Coordination of requests R&D tax credits and potential subsidies

* Involvement in ESG reporting

* Involvement in and coordination of potential financing projects, both dilutive and non dilutive

* Involvement in potential M&A projects, from Due Diligence to Integration

* Identify opportunities to use automation, data tools, and AI to enhance finance workflows, analysis, and reporting

* Act as a trusted business partner to leadership, with the ability to challenge assumptions and influence decisions

* Help raise the level of financial rigor, transparency, and accountability across the organization

You are a hands-on FP&A professional who combines strong financial rigor with a practical, business-minded approach. You're comfortable operating in a fast-paced SaaS environment where priorities evolve, and you know how to bring structure, clarity, and forward-looking insights to support decision-making across teams. You communicate clearly with both finance and non-finance stakeholders, and you're able to challenge assumptions constructively while staying solution-oriented.

We're looking for an analytical and synthetic mindset, and:

* You have qualified from a Business School

* You have at least 7 years of experience in FP&A; an experience in a VC or PE fund is a plus

* You are used to leveraging AI in your daily work, have made up an opinion on where AI best benefits the FP&A role and have started implementing agents

* You are very agile in Excel and Gsheet

* You have strong verbal and written communication skills in both French & English and are happy working in a multicultural environment

* You are very organized, thorough and a quick thinker

* You have a capacity for detailed analysis and for converging to detailed and actionable plans, that you will be able to drive

* You are empathetic, discreet and trustworthy: you will often be part of confidential information and need to treat it with maximum reliability

* You have a high sense of ownership and a solid autonomy

* You are flexible and adaptable. You are comfortable dealing with multiple and constantly evolving priorities and fast turnaround

Important:
You must have current legal authorization to work in France and be able to work from our Paris office.

As a newcomer, you'll be joining a diverse, highly skilled and motivated team, with a strong Tech DNA, colleagues that are eager to share their knowledge and passion.

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