General Accounting Accountant - M/F/X

Job Description:

Location : Aimargues

Segment : Royal Canin

Contract Type : Permanent

Our General Accounting Team plays a key role in ensuring accurate and compliant financial reporting across our headquarters, factories, and various markets.

As a General Accounting Accountant, you will be responsible for managing end-to-end general accounting processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency. Your key focus areas will include period close, balance sheet reconciliations, periodic reporting, and accounting treatments for new initiatives. You will play a crucial role in maintaining the financial integrity of two legal entities (RC SAS & RC France), covering 10+ MOEs, 500+ balance sheet accounts, and 200+ intercompany partners.

What are we looking for?

• You are fluent in French and English, ensuring effective communication across teams.

• You have at least 4 years of experience in accounting or a closely related field.

• You hold a DCG or DSCG (or equivalent), with a solid foundation in general accounting, financial reporting, and reconciliation.

• You have a strong customer focus, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in financial processes.

• You take initiative and assess risks effectively to support sound financial decision-making.

• You are a proactive problem-solver, always looking for ways to optimize processes and bring innovative solutions.

• You are naturally curious, eager to learn, and adaptable to new challenges.

What would be your key responsibilities?

Ensure Accounting Accuracy & Compliance

• Deliver accurate financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet) in 1NAV, HFM, Helios.

• Execute period close, reconciliations (Blackline), and year-end processes.

• Manage complex transactions (leases, manufacturing, intercompany) and resolve discrepancies.

• Ensure internal controls (ICE) and maintain clean master data.

Optimize Processes & Drive Efficiency

• Improve accounting workflows, set KPIs, and lead efficiency initiatives.

• Ensure GA tools and systems (1NAV, Power BI, automation) function properly. Provide data-driven insights for decision-making.

Manage Stakeholders & Reporting

• Ensure service excellence, manage SLAs, and drive process improvements. Provide key reporting for internal teams, auditors, and global finance.

Develop Expertise & Adaptability

• Act as a GA Subject Matter Expert, share best practices, and maintain documentation.

• Implement new regulations, reporting requirements, and integrate new businesses.

• Stay agile, adapt to changes, and contribute to a collaborative team environment.

What can you expect from Mars?

• At Mars, we believe in a relationship of mutual trust, dignity and respect between our company and Associates that is more meaningful than the standard employer/employee relationship.

• As Associates, we can expect to be respected, supported and valued as individuals, to be treated fairly and equitably.

• You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates’ dogs at the office!

• You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.