Director of Finance

283 – Director of Finance

As the leading European public operator for waste treatment and recovery, Syctom, the metropolitan household waste agency, is a major player in the circular economy and sustainable cities.

Serving 81 municipalities in the Île-de-France region and nearly 6 million inhabitants, Syctom fulfills its public service mission with the objective of transforming waste into a resource.

A demanding mission that it conducts thanks to its 145 employees and 7 apprentices, in close collaboration with member local authorities (City of Paris and 10 territorial public establishments of Grand Paris) responsible for waste collection, and all stakeholders in the sector.

The annual budget amounts to €822 million and the Investment Plan to €825 million by 2030.

Syctom treats and recovers 2.2 million tons of household waste annually in its innovative treatment facilities (3 energy recovery units - UVE -, 5 sorting centers, 2 transfer centers, and a future anaerobic digestion unit). The syndicate's assets, combining industrial performance and environmental exemplary, are operated under contract by private companies or SemOps presided over by an elected official of the syndicate.

A responsible and innovative player, Syctom is at the forefront of the French ecological transition. It supports the development of food waste collection, develops treatment and recovery solutions, acts to reduce and sort waste, and is committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to its transport and logistics activities.

The Deputy General Directorate of Resources and Means (DGARM) oversees financial, human, IT, legal, and logistics resources, as well as the institution's operations and initiatives contributing to the quality of working life. It supports operational directorates on a daily basis, manages collective processes and initiatives, and participates in the strategic project of the local authority, which defines common orientations so that Syctom can best support the territory in its sustainable development ambitions.

As a key player in Syctom's performance and financial sustainability, the Finance Department ensures the management of the establishment's financial resources. It supports the local authority's strategic projects by providing its expertise in financial planning and engineering, budget construction, pricing, and investment financing, within a constrained and constantly evolving institutional, regulatory, and economic environment.

In a context of structuring and modernizing its resource functions, Syctom is currently conducting a strategic audit aimed at strengthening the financial function and developing a culture of management and cost control. This aims to consolidate the establishment's analytical and anticipatory capabilities, develop a performance management culture, and enhance decision-support tools for the General Directorate and elected officials.

Missions

Under the responsibility of the Deputy General Director of Resources and Means, you will lead the definition and implementation of the local authority's financial and budgetary strategy. The 2026 budget amounts to €479 million for operating expenses and €343 million for investments. The amount of the contribution paid by the syndicate's member local authorities is €268 million.

Based on assumptions that you coordinate and document in conjunction with operational directorates, you will carry out multi-year financial forecasts. In this context, you will be responsible for structuring a budgetary management dialogue that optimizes Syctom's financial resources and precisely controls the amount of the fee paid by member local authorities. You will propose a financial framework and manage budgetary processes and schedules in conjunction with operational directorates.

Within the framework of the roadmap, you will be a force for proposal and, under the responsibility of the General Directorate, prepare the work and decisions of elected officials regarding the syndicate's financial and pricing trajectory. You will conduct financial analyses to determine short and long-term risks and opportunities, and propose scenarios to the General Directorate. You will build and manage key financial indicators and propose decision-support tools for the General Directorate and the executive branch, by developing the financial decision-making BI system.

With a debt of nearly one billion euros, you will define and propose a long-term financing strategy to the General Directorate that guarantees the financial sustainability of the syndicate's projects. You will oversee the active management of debt, treasury, revenues, and external financing.

You will also ensure the financial management of Syctom's industrial assets and support the definition of financial trajectories necessary for financing future costs induced by structural investments, particularly in terms of depreciation, taxation, and operating costs of new facilities.

As such, you will provide high-level expertise in local taxation and taxation of industrial activities. You will lead efforts to optimize and secure the syndicate's tax expenses and contribute to the implementation of reliable processes and tools, in conjunction with technical, asset, and operational directorates.

Syctom has committed to creating SemOps for the operation of its sites, within the framework of public procurement. You will actively participate in setting up financial monitoring and control mechanisms for these structures on behalf of Syctom, in conjunction with governance and the teams responsible for technical management and contract control. You will also monitor structures in which Syctom is a shareholder (Semardel, Sigeif Mobilités).

You will support the General Directorate in financial dialogue with member local authorities and contribute to educating elected officials and institutional partners, such as banks or rating agencies, about the syndicate's financial issues.

In a context of transformation of the financial function, you will manage a team and participate in structuring projects aimed at strengthening management tools and cost control, with the opportunity to contribute directly to the evolution of the syndicate's organization, practices, and processes.

This position therefore offers the opportunity to contribute directly to the financial transformation of the leading European public player in household waste treatment, in an environment combining major industrial, financial, and environmental challenges.

Profile

With a higher education degree (Bac+5) in Public Finance, you have a successful experience in the management or financial and budgetary steering of a public organization.

You possess expertise in the area of budget preparation and execution as well as financial strategy. Experienced with associated tools and processes, you also know how to evolve them with a view to continuous improvement, and have an interest in organizational issues.

You have a strategic vision of the financial and budgetary challenges of a local authority, and have the ability to synthesize and propose a roadmap and options for decision-making support for the General Directorate.

Pedagogical, reactive, and proactive, you know how to initiate and lead quality dialogue with operational directorates. You know how to champion a project and assist in decision-making. You demonstrate managerial qualities, excellent interpersonal skills, and a taste for collaborative work and teamwork.

Recruitment by statutory means (territorial administrator or attaché framework, 1st grade) or, failing that, by contract (fixed-term public law contract).

Position to be filled in January 2027.

Syctom is committed to supporting employees recognized as having disabilities.

As part of its commitment to professional equality and diversity, Syctom is committed to combating all forms of discrimination.

Syctom:

Facilitates the organization of time:

• Executive package
• Possibility of teleworking up to 2 days per week

Contributes to expenses:

• for teleworking with the flat-rate teleworking allowance (at the maximum amounts permitted in the civil service)
• for meals: access to the Inter-Company Restaurant at Syctom headquarters (supported by Syctom up to €7.26) and allocation of meal vouchers for teleworking days (valued at €12.10).

Encourages the most ecological travel:

• Implementation of the sustainable mobility package

Contributes to health and social action:

• Participation in Mutual Insurance and Provident Fund (group contracts concluded with the CIG of Grande Couronne)
• Access to the National Social Action Committee (CNAS)