- Location
- Paris Île-de-France France
- Employment
- Internship
- Seniority
- Intern
- Department
- Finance, Accounting & Revenue Management
- Posted
- Oct 26, 2026
About Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien
Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien is a leading French media group, uniting influential titles, events, and services that inform economic, political, cultural, and civic life. As an employer, the Group offers a dynamic environment where journalistic excellence, digital innovation, data, marketing, events, and business expertise converge. Backed by the standards of a major media institution, it values intellectual curiosity, agility, responsibility, and a strong sense of public interest. Employees contribute to trusted brands with national reach while helping shape new formats, audiences, and experiences in a rapidly evolving media landscape.
Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien is recruiting a Management Controller Intern to support three controllers across Les Echos, Paris Match and group-wide circulation activities. The internship covers monthly close and reporting, budget revisions, and analysis of editorial, production, payroll and circulation activities.
Role & Responsibilities
- Contribute to the monthly close and reporting, including calculating provisions for single-copy sales revenue, manufacturing, promotion and press monitoring; updating P&Ls and management reports; and supporting reporting on editorial variable costs.
- Support budget revisions from late February by joining working sessions with operational teams, modelling and analysing different budget assumptions, updating assumption files and entering budget data into Essbase.
- Monitor and analyse business activities, including payroll and journalist press monitoring, publication content and production for Les Echos; analyse KPIs and track reporting files for circulation; and conduct ad hoc cross-functional studies.
Qualifications
- Currently studying at a business school or in a university programme specialising in corporate finance, at third year or above.
- Rigorous, energetic, proactive, clear in communication, with a team-oriented approach and strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong interest in the press and media sector.
- A first experience in management control or auditing is an advantage.
- Good command of Excel.
Skills
Experience
Entry-level; a first experience in management control or auditing is an advantage.
Education
Currently studying at a business school or in a university programme specialising in corporate finance, at third year or above.
Workplace
This position is based in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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Culture
Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien offers a dynamic, editorially driven workplace where journalistic excellence, innovation, and public-impact storytelling are central to the culture. As an employer, it brings together diverse media, digital, events, and business expertise, encouraging collaboration, agility, and responsibility in a fast-evolving information environment.
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