Finance & Operations Control Project Manager M/W – CANADA

Job title: Finance & Operations Control Project Manager M/W – CANADA

Job description: Company presentation

World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 66,000 employees and serves more than 3,6 million customers and patients.

Through the passion and diversity of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders. Join us for a stimulating experience: you’ll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.

Entity and activity description

The Canada Operations Control and Business Intelligence (BI) Finance team is made of 5 employees of several nationalities, based in Montréal Canada and Houston US. They work in close relationship with the Operations controller of the four Canadian Business Units.

Missions and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Operations Control Manager, your main project will be to review, define and optimize the finance datamodel in our ERP and in our business intelligence tools.

You will work in close relationship with the accounting and finance teams, the operations, IT, and the different Air Liquide affiliates and countries impacted by this project.

Your main objectives will be:

• Gather and formally define the business requirements
• Run preliminary tests on the proposed changes to ensure functional applicability
• Coordinate and align all affiliates in the Americas using the same Oracle ERP (USA, Canada, Mexico, Trinidad, Dominican, Argentina)
• Coordinate the implementation with the Business Services and the IT teams in development and then in production environments
• Run and coordinate the tests by ERP users in development and then in production environments
• Work with IT and the BI teams to reflect changes made in the ERP in other systems: OBIEE, Hyperion-Essbase, Power BI
• Accompany and coordinate the update of reportings by the different system users (operations control, accounting, etc.)
• Define the Finance data model in coordination with the Power BI project, the Finance and the Group Data teams.
• Work on other finance and ad hoc projects for the operations and the management.

Competencies and Profile

• Engineering background / Business School background

Field of specialization: Finance, Operations Control, Audit, Accounting with 1-2 years of work experience

• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Very well organized and structured approach of complex problems
• Ability to evolve in a multi-cultural and quickly evolving environment
• IT: affinity with IT systems, strong Excel skills, knowledge of ERPs and datamodels an asset
• Soft skills: strong ability to adapt and learn, good oral and written communication skills, well-organized, ability to manage several topics in parallel and to keep track of the big picture
• English and French mandatory

Additional information

The VIE position will be based in Montreal, Canada, for 12 months.

Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore, only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for more information about these requirements:

The V.I.E., an international young graduate program, enables young professionals who are less than 28 and European Union nationals to work for a French company in any country of the world. Becoming part of this program means going abroad to carry out a professional assignment for up to 24 months whilst benefiting from social care coverage and an interesting salary, which depends on the host country.

Business France, the French agency for international business development, is in charge of all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link:

Company: Air Liquide

Expected salary:

Location: Montreal, QC

Job date: Wed, 12 May 2021 23:38:55 GMT