Head of Accounting / CLS

ArcelorMittal France is looking for a Head of Accounting / CLS (M/F).

The position is based in Dunkerque (France) or Florange (France). 

Responsibilities

Accounting: Manage the accounting team (local and off-shore) during the closing process to deliver the financials, in coordination with the FP&A, Controlling and Tax teams. Provide expertise, help resolving anomalies, and continuously improve accounting tools and processes.

CLS: Provide the Group and various stakeholders with reliable financial reports that comply with accounting, legal, and tax standards, reflecting a true and fair view of the company’s operations, in both IFRS and French GAAP.

Activities : 

Financial Statements (CLS)

• Produce legal financial statements according to local standards. Ensure proper adjustments between local and consolidated standards, implementing corrective actions as needed in collaboration with auditors and/or the Corporate team responsible for standards.
• Ensure compliance with accounting and management procedures, develop necessary corrective actions, and collaborate with stakeholders to apply updates when standards evolve.
• Check the final consistency of monthly results, request necessary adjustments, ensure compliance with applied accounting methods, publish the Group’s financial packages
• Oversee management control functions and deliver statements to the Finance team.
• Both for AMF and its subsidiaries

Interfaces (CLS)

• Coordinate activities between auditors and internal stakeholders (Accounting, SCM, IS/IT, Production, Maintenance, etc.) to collect all required data.

Closing (Accounting) 

• Create, communicate, and promptly update the accounting closure calendar for all accounting/finance personnel and the Accounting Center [BCoE/GBT].
• Support the resolution of issues during closure by leveraging expertise in the accounting
• Prepare and lead pre-closure and post-closure meetings with all participants to optimize the closure calendar.
• Assist and support controllers in validating production costs by product as defined by the system and provide technical validation for associated production costs (escalating alerts to superiors if needed)
• Ensure good quality of balance sheet documentation and reviews
• Manage and coordinate the accounting teams, with local resources but also with off-shore resources, whether in Poland or India; bring expertise, train the teams and ensure good coordination among people

Internal Control (Accounting)     

• Centralize and verify receipt of SOX controls (billing, stock reconciliation, inventories), ensure consistency checks, and communicate results to superiors.
• Lead stock review meetings with SCM and the relevant site, prepare action reports, and ensure follow-up.
• Coordinate inventory management between site teams and accountants to ensure system updates.

System support (Accounting) 

• Adapt the accounting system to the organization (create cost centers, manage cost distribution/reversal cycles, create macro-items).
• On Metal Balance process, ensure good sharing of knowledge, follow-up of closing anomalies to get them solved, including in upfront processes; work on digitalization and simplification of the Metal balance process
• Clean accounts by coordinating actions among various accountants and monitoring progress.
• Assist procurement/finance representatives in resolving webcycle issues related to accounting problems and perform manual payment processes if needed.

Experience

• Chartered Accountant (DSCG) or 5 year study in Finance
• Min 10 years in Accounting positions in big companies, including Chief accounting position, both in French and IFRS environment
• Team management experience (min 3 to 5 people), with good relationship capabilities
• Experience in Shared services collaboration
• Expertise in SAP
• Languages: French and English (minimum professional capacities to work with India Center of expertise)
• Continuous improvement mindset, for processes and IT

ArcelorMittal is one of the world's leading steel and mining companies, employing 125,400 people worldwide, with operations in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 14 countries. In 2025, ArcelorMittal generated revenue of $61.4 billion and produced 55.6 million tonnes of crude steel, while iron ore production reached 48.8 million tonnes.

Our purpose is to help build a better world with smarter steels. Steels made using innovative processes that consume less energy, significantly reduce carbon emissions, and lower costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger, and more reusable. Steels that support electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure, helping drive the transformation of societies throughout this century. With steel at the core of our business, the creativity of our people, and the strength of our culture, we are helping the world make this change happen. This is what we believe the future of steel looks like.

In France, ArcelorMittal employs 14,800 people, including 850 researchers, across 40 production sites, distribution and service centers, and four R&D locations.

ArcelorMittal France employs nearly 7,000 people and operates a network of seven industrial sites and one administrative site. The company is part of the ArcelorMittal Flat Europe segment, which manufactures flat steel products serving the automotive, general industry, and packaging markets.

For more information, please visit: https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/