About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New-York City, Boston.

Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes, Docker's co-founder. American and European top-tier VC firms have also invested in GitGuardian.

GitGuardian leads the way in Non-Human Identity security, offering end-to-end solutions from secrets detection in code, productivity tools and environments to strong remediation, observability and proactive prevention of leaks.

We recently closed a $50M Series C funding round. This milestone reflects the strength of our growth trajectory and our ambition to lead the next chapter of enterprise cybersecurity.

About your team and your mission

At GitGuardian, the Finance department is a small (4 members) yet high-impact team, acting as a growth enabler so the company can scale globally while keeping operations sustainable. We have been steadily evolving our finance tool stack to bring in more automation and connectivity, and the next building block to deploy is a group-level harmonization: consolidation between France and the US, and a more robust international compliance approach (including tax exposure on local and cross-border flows).

This role will own the accounting, tax and compliance of a group operating from France and the US. Reporting to the Finance Director, your main responsibilities will be:

Group Consolidation

• Design and run the group consolidation process between our French parent company and our US subsidiary. Define the consolidation policies, the reporting package, the closing calendar, and the tooling that fits our scale.

• Establish the bridges between French GAAP and US GAAP where required, and document the conventions so the framework holds as the company evolves.

• Produce reliable group financials that the board, our auditors and our investors can trust.

Tax & International Structure

• Own all tax matters end-to-end: French corporate income tax, VAT, US sales tax, intercompany flows and transfer pricing between our French and US entities.

• Make sure our legal and tax structure supports the company's international growth, and that we stay compliant as the footprint expands.

Accounting & Technical Accounting

• Deliver fast, accurate and predictable month-end and year-end closes. Shorten the cycle time without sacrificing quality.

• Take direct ownership of complex topics: revenue recognition, leases, deferred tax, foreign exchange, intercompany eliminations. You are comfortable both designing the framework and writing the journal entry when needed.

Audit & Internal Controls

• Lead the annual statutory audit for the French entity and build the foundation for a group consolidated audit. Develop a long-term partnership with our auditors and turn findings into concrete improvements.

• Build and enforce internal controls and accounting policies aligned with French GAAP, with US GAAP overlays where consolidation requires it. Document the rules so the team can rely on them.

• Run an ongoing risk assessment across accounting, tax and cash. Surface issues early and propose remediation.

Process Transformation & Automation

• Make our finance function a benchmark for efficiency. Identify and ship high-leverage applications of AI and automation across accounting workflows (reconciliations, invoice processing, anomaly detection, closing tasks, audit prep) so the team spends time on judgment rather than typing.

• Tooling Strategy: Continuously assess our accounting and tax tooling, propose upgrades when the team has outgrown them, and own the migrations.

Team Leadership & Strategic Partnership

• Manage and grow the accounting team. Start with the Accounting Manager and scale the team as the business grows. Coach, raise the bar, and build a place where good accountants want to work.

• Translate accounting, tax and consolidation implications into clear business guidance for strategic projects: new subsidiaries, new revenue models, fundraising or future M&A.

About you

If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!

Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:

• Master's degree in accounting or finance (DSCG/DEC is a strong plus)

• Fluency in English, ideally also in French

• 7+ years of progressive experience in accounting, including a senior in-house role at a scale-up and/or a Big 4 audit or consolidation practice

• Demonstrated experience building or running group consolidation with a French parent company and a foreign subsidiary, ideally a US sub

• Solid working knowledge of both French GAAP and US GAAP, with the ability to navigate the differences pragmatically

• Tax expertise: French corporate tax and VAT, US sales tax, and transfer pricing between French and US entities

• Having led external audits, including building documentation and defending technical positions

• Experience having improved a close cycle (faster, cleaner, more predictable) without breaking the team

• Business orientation, you translate accounting and tax into operational decisions and partner naturally with non-finance stakeholders

• Hands-on people manager with a coaching approach

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:

• Being comfortable with prompting AI agents, building automations, and a clear-eyed view of AI's key challenges will set you apart

• Having already worked within a B2B SaaS or cybersecurity company

The interview process

1. Video call with a team member

To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

2. Interview with your future manager

To dig into your experience, walk you through the team and missions, and explain what we expect from a Head of Accounting, Tax & Consolidation.

3. Business case

To see how you frame and solve a complex accounting, tax or consolidation problem under realistic constraints, and how you present your recommendations.

4.1 Final interview with the co-founder

To share GitGuardian's vision and ambitions for the coming years and confirm mutual fit at executive level.

4.2 References check

You can start thinking about two contacts who can attest to your previous or current professional experiences. These contacts should be as recent as possible, and we will call them at the end of the process.

Benefits

• 💰 Package that includes BSPCE

• 🍜 Lunch voucher

• 👟 Sponsored Wellpass (gymlib)

• 🏥 Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare / Generali)

• 💻 Up to €300 to improve your home office set-up

• 🌴 Yearly holiday allowance

• 🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you

• 🎡 Team building: monthly budget dedicated to each employee that you can spend as you wish, with colleagues (latest examples to date: Michelin star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, kitesurfing week-end, ...)

And also...

• 🏡 Remote policy: hybrid (3 days/week at the office in Paris)

• 📈 Opportunities for career development in the long term

More about GitGuardian!

Products

• Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!

• Want to go even further? Check out our public roadmap!

• Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.

• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 app on the GitHub marketplace 🔥

Clients

• GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.

• More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.

• Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.

People

• The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!

• The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.

• We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.

• You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.