La Compagnie Fiduciaire is a company that offers numerous expertises. From auditing to consulting, including accounting expertise, it supports SMEs, VSEs and ETIs in their development. It also attracts many students for internships, work-study or permanent contracts. It even appears in first place in our Twitter ranking of audit firms, based on the criterion of engagement. Its CEO, Jean-Philippe Romero, agreed to tell us more about the jobs carried out within Compagnie Fiduciaire, but also about the recruitment prospects for the year 2023.
Everything you need to know about the Fiduciary Company
How to define the Fiduciary Company?
It is a firm created in 1980. Originally, its two main activities were auditing and accounting. Our goal: to build the future. Initially, it was about the future of the company, then we also worked on the future of our employees. Our purpose is to support clients in all stages of the development of their business.
We have therefore organized the activity of the Fiduciary Company around the major stages in the life of the company, from creation to development to its transmission. We support very small businesses from their birth to ETI. We are organized around business expertise (accounting, legal, employment law, payroll, consulting) and sectoral expertise, such as mass distribution.
The year 2022 for Compagnie Fiduciaire was marked by significant growth. What is your most dynamic activity?
In 2022, at constant scope, the growth of our activities is 10%. Among the most dynamic fields, we find our digital activities. In recent years, we have digitized our operations and have an offering of pure player 100% online. 6 years ago, we developed an in-house tool that allows our customers to work with our tools 24 hours a day, wherever they are in the world. We are in the top 3 digital firms in France. These tools also serve us in the more traditional approach to our profession which is approached from the phygital angle.
The consulting activity is also very dynamic, but also the entire wealth management dimension and the law firm branch in which we deploy tax, social and business law-related activities. Since 2021, we have also been supporting our clients with business transfers and mergers and acquisitions, since we have relaunched our corporate finance activity. We have created an ecosystem around the sale and transfer of businesses which generates additional needs: audit, legal acts, etc. Today, we are capable of creating a global solution.
Recruitment prospects for Compagnie Fiduciaire
What profiles are sought by Compagnie Fiduciaire?
The palette is very wide. We are looking for both support functions and business functions. For example, we have a team dedicated to marketing and communication, IT specialists dedicated to development or traditional professions such as taxation.
Our desire remains to hire young graduates that we want to train. For us, it’s quite common to evolve and achieve your career within the group. Half of the firm’s partners started as trainee accountants. I myself have only had one employer, the Compagnie Fiduciaire.
We have also created an audit school. For four years, young recruits will be trained with elements complementary to what they saw during their studies. We strongly believe in lifelong learning. Recently, our employees spent a week at KEDGE to learn about transformation management and transition management.
What positions are you recruiting for?
We are recruiting in all departments, nearly 200 employees for the year 2023. All job offers are available on the website of the Fiduciary Company.
You place a lot of emphasis on quality of life at work (QVT), what do you actually offer?
It is part of the challenges of our profession to be attractive. Finance is one of the sectors that recruit the most today. Our employees have a lot of work and they are committed to QVT. If we are not careful about this, they will turn away from the business.
We work a lot in our world, it is important to find flexible rules so that this pace of work is bearable. We therefore worked on several projects:
- The pace of work: our employees can work regularly, 4.5 days per week, or opt to alternate with a four-day week and a five-day week.
- Remuneration: we have implemented profit-sharing, supplementary pensions for executives and access to company shareholders for managers who have more than 5 years of seniority in their position. The managers own 8% of the capital of Compagnie Fiduciaire.
- Four years ago, we launched the FAR program, for Unite, Support to Succeed. The objective? Ensuring that there is a common success, for the Fiduciary Company, as for the person who works for us.
