mirakl
Deputy Accounting Director (freelance/contractor)
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Bordeaux, France
Confirm work authorization, visa sponsorship and location requirements with the employer.About Mirakl:
Founded in 2012, Mirakl has been at the forefront of marketplace innovation, empowering every business to compete in the platform economy.
Today, Mirakl's operating system combines an enterprise marketplace solution (Mirakl Platform) that enables retailers and B2B organizations to launch, scale, and operate marketplaces and dropship, AI-powered multichannel selling (Mirakl Connect), retail media (Mirakl Ads) and an agentic commerce infrastructure (Mirakl Nexus).
With dual headquarters in Boston and Paris, Mirakl helps a global ecosystem of 450+ marketplaces (B2C and B2B) and a network of over 100k third-party marketplace sellers. Brands like Macy's, Decathlon, Carrefour, Asos, and Airbus Helicopters use Mirakl to grow their businesses in new and remarkable ways.
For more information, visit www.mirakl.com.
Mirakl in Numbers:
- 🗓️ Founded in 2012 | Member of French Tech Next40
- 👥 750+ employees in 9 offices worldwide: Paris, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Boston, London, Munich, New York, Sydney, Tokyo
Our Values:
Working at Mirakl means accelerating your career alongside ambitious, passionate, and supportive colleagues. We're proud of the diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences that make our teams unique.
Our 5 values guide how we collaborate:
- 💡 Work Hard Together: Teamwork and collaboration are the foundation of our success
- 🏆 Get Things Done: We prioritize action and efficiency for impactful results
- 🚀 Go Above & Beyond: We tackle challenges proactively and always aim for excellence
- 🎓 Succeed Through Expertise: Knowledge sharing and continuous learning are core to our culture
- 🤝 Satisfy & Empower Clients: We're committed to our clients' success
About the role
Mirakl is looking for a senior contractor to join its Finance team and provide operational leadership in an international, multi-entity environment.
Reporting to the Accounting & Tax Director, you will secure the continuity and quality of day-to-day accounting operations while supporting the monthly and annual close.
The role also offers the opportunity to contribute to the transformation of the Finance function, particularly through the identification, testing and adoption of relevant automation and AI use cases. The successful candidate will combine strong accounting expertise with a pragmatic, hands-on approach to process improvement and change management.
Contractor
6 months
Start: ASAP
Location: Paris or Bordeaux (aller-retour à prévoir à Bordeaux 1 fois par mois)
Key responsibilities
Accounts Payable and Procure-to-Pay
- Own and coordinate the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay process, from supplier creation and invoice receipt through to validation, booking and payment.
- Coordinate the Accounts Payable team and ensure timely processing of invoices across Mirakl's entities.
- Monitor invoice workflows, approvals, purchase orders, blocked invoices and outstanding supplier balances.
- Review invoice coding, supporting documentation and accounting treatment, and act as an escalation point for complex supplier issues.
- Coordinate payment runs and ensure that payment files are prepared accurately and in line with internal approval procedures.
- Maintain robust controls over vendor master data, bank details, payment approvals and segregation of duties.
Accounting operations and close support
- Support the Accounting & Tax Director in the coordination of the monthly and annual close process.
- Review AP-related cut-off and other accounting entries.
- Monitor the reconciliation and clean-up of relevant balance sheet accounts and support the review of intercompany transactions.
- Coordinate with local accounting firms and external service providers across Mirakl's international perimeter.
- Contribute to audit preparation and respond to requests from external auditors and other stakeholders.
- Ensure that accounting evidence, procedures and control documentation are complete, accessible and up to date.
Finance transformation, automation and AI
- Contribute to Mirakl's Finance AI transformation roadmap by identifying high-value use cases within AP, Procure-to-Pay and accounting operations.
- Participate in discovery phases, workshops and experiments aimed at improving invoice processing, data quality, reconciliations, reporting and operational support.
- Help assess and test AI-enabled workflows, automation solutions and Finance agents, working closely with Finance, Data and other stakeholders.
- Translate operational requirements into clear process, data and control requirements for automation and AI initiatives.
- Support the adoption of new tools by documenting processes, defining operating guidelines, monitoring results and helping teams embed new ways of working.
- Remain attentive to data quality, confidentiality, traceability, human oversight and appropriate controls when using AI in Finance processes.
Candidate profile
- 8+ years of experience in accounting, finance operations or accounting management
- Previous experience as an Accounting Manager, Deputy Accounting Director
- Experience in a multi-entity, international environment; experience in a fast-growing technology or SaaS company is a strong advantage.
- Solid understanding of accounting principles, closing processes, cut-off, reconciliations and internal controls.
- Experience working with external accounting firms and international subsidiaries.
- Strong knowledge of ERP and finance systems
- Interest in Finance transformation, automation and AI, with the ability to translate operational needs into practical use cases.
- Autonomous, hands-on and solution-oriented, with excellent organisational, analytical and communication skills.
- Fluent English required; French is a strong advantage.
We welcome collaborators with their diverse perspectives and experiences to power us forward. These often far exceed conventional job requirements and help us create a culture of continuous learning. If you're ready to join a global leader powering digital transformation for 450+ of the world's most innovative retailers and B2B organizations.
As part of our recruitment process, Mirakl processes your personal data to review and manage your application and, where appropriate, to consider your profile for future opportunities. You can exercise your data protection rights at any time, and as further detailed in our policies. For more information about how we process your personal data and your rights, please consult our Recruitment Privacy Notice, here in English and here in French.
We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to help streamline our hiring process, including screening applications, analyzing resumes, and assessing responses. While AI helps us work efficiently, all final hiring decisions are made by humans. For more information, visit our AI Guidelines for Candidates and Interviews.
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