Accountant - French Speaking

Job Description

Job Title: French Speaking Accountant

Location: Lisbon, (Hybrid)

Contract: Full Time permanent

Report into: France Finance Manager/ Regional Financial Controller

Direct Reports: France Finance Manager

About Us

Cyncly is a global technology powerhouse with 2,400+ employees and 70,000+ customers across 100+ countries. Cyncly transforms the way customizable products and spaces are imagined, designed, sold, managed and made.Our end-to-end software solutions connect professional designers, retailers and manufacturers to the world's largest repository of product content. Today, our business spans across the Kitchen & Bath, Furniture, Window, Glass & Door, and Flooring industries with operations in North & South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa.

Cyncly brings over 30 years of experience to deliver more value for our customers through an expanded portfolio of end-to-end solutions. Our global presence allows us to provide world-class support and sales with a local touch, providing the best possible customer experience.

Cyncly is now embarking on an exciting journey as we continue to expand through strong organic growth and complementary acquisitions, backed by leading growth private equity firms specialized in technology.

Opened in 2025, our Lisbon Regional Operating Centre has grown to over 90 employees in just one year, with ambitious plans to expand to 300 employees by 2027.

About the Role

As an accountant you will manage financial records and ensure compliance with regulations, with a focus on balance sheet reconciliations. You'll be reporting to the France Finance Manager, with a dotted line to the Regional Financial Controller

Main Responsibilities

• Own and manage the month-end close process across all entities, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
• Review monthly financial results and investigate key variances, ensuring completeness and accuracy of financial information.
• Prepare and review monthly balance sheet reconciliations, with a strong focus on account accuracy, completeness, and timely resolution of reconciling items. This role has a strong balance sheet focus, and proven experience in preparing, reviewing, and resolving balance sheet reconciliations is essential.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, legal, statutory, and tax reporting requirements, including support for local statutory audits and group audits.
• Manage bank accounting for Compusoft France, Innobain, and Applications across seven bank accounts, including transaction posting, controls, and bank reconciliations.
• Support the 2026 year-end closing process across all entities.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and control of finance processes.
• Work closely with the wider Finance team to ensure group accounting policies, processes, and procedures are consistently followed.
• Partner with finance and non-finance stakeholders across the Cyncly community, providing high-quality support and fostering strong working relationships in a French-speaking business environment.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• ACA/ACCA or equivalent Qualified accountant with at least 2 years PQE
• Experience in preparing management accounts
• Solid financial reporting and technical skills
• Strong planning skills well organised and attention to detail
• Experience in a global, multi-cultural environment
• Ideally practice trained with a couple of years of Industry experience.
• Fluent French Speaker

Required skills and competencies

• Strong people skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent time management and organisational abilities
• The ability to work accurately and independently
• The ability to problem solve
• A continuous improvement mindset
• The ability to be both hands on and strategic
• The ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders

Working for us:

At Cyncly, we call our team OneCyncly, a reflection of how we work together as one, united by our purpose: powering businesses that bring spaces to life. Our strength comes from our diversity of experiences, perspectives, and skills - and we thrive when we work together with openness, trust, and respect.

Here, you'll join a group of colleagues who take ownership, solve problems, and focus on making an impact. We embrace curiosity, welcome new ideas, and see mistakes as opportunities to learn. You'll have the freedom to work flexibly and autonomously, supported by teammates and leaders who are committed to your growth.

We celebrate the different ways people contribute and encourage everyone - from every background - to bring their authentic self to work. Because when we collaborate, challenge each other, and share what we know, we build something better together.

If you want to work in a place where your ideas matter, your growth is valued, and your work shapes the spaces people live, work, and play in - come join us.