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Customer Success Manager — Key Accounts, Accounting Firms

Customer Success ManagerCustomer SuccessFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 501-1,000Since 2020H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

France

Posted

6 hours ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expFrenchFlux

Job Description

Customer Success Manager — Key Accounts, Accounting Firms

Pennylane

• Manage the day-to-day relationship with firm decision-makers and project teams. • Build and run governance: steering committees (COPIL), adoption committees, monitoring bodies, and a local ambassador community. • Define and execute adoption plans (employees + clients) based on data. • Coordinate execution with Pennylane internal experts (Product, Support, Ops, Sales, etc.). • Anticipate risks (satisfaction, rollout, adoption) and implement remediation plans. • Help embed and drive the use of the Pennylane PA to centralize workflows.

Job Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of experience
  • Experience in SaaS Customer Success with a solid accounting background (or motivated to develop this expertise)
  • Or experience in finance/audit with client relationship management (commercial component)
  • Excellent client relationship skills: ability to reassure, structure discussions, and gain perspective.
  • Assertiveness: deliver clear recommendations with diplomacy and the ability to persuade.
  • Portfolio management (customer health) and ad-hoc action planning.
  • Data analysis: extract insights and set priorities.
  • Project management: coordinate multiple stakeholders with rigor and autonomy.

Benefits

  • A market-leading health insurance plan (Alan Blue and Alan Mind)
  • Meal vouchers (Swile card)
  • Between 6 and 12 additional RTT days on top of 5 weeks of paid vacation
  • Opportunity to improve your English through Busuu
  • A monthly allowance for all Pennylaners to support working from home or in coworking spaces
  • Easy access to our offices, located a few minutes from Saint-Lazare in central Paris
  • An allocation of BSPCE (employee share options)
  • Access to 8,000 gyms across France and over 300 wellbeing activities via our partner Gymlib
  • A Mac laptop
  • We regularly play sports together and come together for company events such as Tech Days (which bring remote Pennylaners together every three months) and an annual company retreat, fostering strong team cohesion for everyone.

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