Junior Project Billing Analyst / Operational Controlling

EDGYN is an innovative and leading company in brand protection, product traceability, and authentication. Since 2000, we have been helping our clients combat counterfeiting and grey markets while safeguarding consumers.

The purpose of our solutions is simple: when someone buys a product, we enable them to verify that it is truly authentic.

We design mobile applications, industrial coding technologies, and a range of specialized services that allow organizations across all industries to detect fraud and secure their supply chains. Our clients include major brands in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, spirits, luxury goods, and agrochemicals, as well as governmental institutions.

EDGYN is part of Impala Group, a group of energy companies (Neoen, Albioma), technologies (Technoplus, SDMS, Pharma&Beauty Group), and technologies (EDGYN, INEXTO) .

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and be part of a company that's transforming global security standards, we want to hear from you! Join us at EDGYN & INEXTO and help us continue to lead the way in secure and sustainable technology solutions.

The position is available in Paris, France, and requires on-site presence.

About the Role:

As part of strengthening the Group finance function, Edgyn & Inexto are looking for a Junior Project Billing Analyst / Operational Controller on a permanent contract. The role is suited to a recent graduate from a leading business school interested in an international and operational environment. The main mission is to secure and trigger customer billing based on project progress, contractual milestones, and operational information, while contributing to management control, financial analysis, and revenue recognition. The successful candidate will work directly with the Group CFO and closely with the sales, project, operations, and finance teams.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Project billing, operational coordination, and revenue recognition:

• Trigger customer billing based on project progress, contractual milestones and validated supporting information

• Ensure accurate revenue recognition and ARR monitoring in line with contracts and accounting rules

• Monitor project margins by comparing progress, costs, billable amounts and expected profitability

• Consolidate billing backlog, unbilled services and blocking points, and review priorities with the Group CFO

• Coordinate sales, project, operations and finance teams by defining ownership, deadlines and escalation paths

• Track contracts, orders, billing terms and missing information to prevent delays

• Reconcile operational, contractual and financial data and strengthen billing controls

2. Cross-functional projects and continuous improvement:

• Improve finance processes, reporting, automation and data quality across Edgyn & Inexto

• Support the selection and deployment of management and financial monitoring tools

• Contribute to closing, forecasts and financial analyses

Qualifications

Education and experience:

• Recent graduate from a leading business school, with a specialisation in finance, management control, audit or financial analysis

• Initial experience in management control, audit, transaction services, corporate finance or financial analysis would be a plus, but is not essential

Technical and language skills:

• Solid foundations in corporate finance, management control, performance analysis and key financial statements

• Understanding of recurring software revenue models, including ARR and its links with billing, contracts and revenue recognition

• Ability to support project margin analysis by monitoring costs, revenue, billing status and profitability indicators

• Excellent command of Excel and agility with management, reporting, ERP, and data automation tools

• Knowledge of Power BI, or strong willingness to learn data visualisation and business intelligence tools

• Strong interest in applying AI to finance to improve analysis, automation, reporting and decision support

• Ability to validate and analyse financial and operational data in a structured way

• Fluency in French and excellent professional English, spoken and written

Your Profile

• Analytical mindset: ability to quickly understand financial issues, structure analyses and identify key points for decision-making

• Operational focus: willingness to work close to the business, understand processes and contribute concretely to their improvement

• Rigour, curiosity and proactivity: ability to take initiative, work with high standards, learn new tools quickly and interact effectively with the CFO and operational teams