Job title: IT Administrator

Company: Pennylane

Location: Paris

Job Description: Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France and Europe?

Do you thrive in a trustful, fast-paced environment?

Then Pennylane might be the right place for you – and you, might be the perfect fit for this role 🙂

Our vision

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of European SMEs.

We help business owners get rid of the time consuming hassle of handling accounting and finance, while giving them access to key information that they can use to make better decisions.

Meanwhile, we’re helping accountants. By using Pennylane, rather than doing manual and repetitive tasks, they can spend more time advising and guiding their clients.

Context

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)

In 3 years of existence, we’ve managed to :

💻 Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants

💰 Raise a total of €100 millions, including from Sequoia 🌲, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more…

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Grow from 7 cofounders to 350 happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (but also remotely), with a 4,9/5 rating on and an e-NPS of 94.

🌍 Build an international environment with more than 36 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe

🤝 Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain

👪 Context & Team

Reporting directly to Thomas, our IT Manager, you will be responsible, with the whole IT team on a daily basis, for defining, structuring and implementing our IT policy, to ensure the reliability and security of our hardware and software infrastructure, in a context of strong growth and forthcoming certification (ISO 27001) of our global security.

🎯 Missions

Support (40%): you provide support to our teams in Paris and remotely (ticketing and training). There is no network administration or hardware repair.

Projects (20%): optimization of our internal workflows, training teams on tools, writing and updating policies (ISO 27001) and knowledge bases, managing external providers etc.

Fleet (15%): you define the configuration rules for our Mac fleet (security, updates) and ensure its daily monitoring, notably thanks to our MDM.

Software Administration (15%): you manage access to tools (SSO, rights) and you are one of the guarantors of access security and data protection

Onboarding (10%): you are responsible for providing the equipment, preparing the machines and access to all our tools (SSO, rights) at the time of onboarding (and their recovery at the time of offboarding), as well as presenting the IT environment and security on the first day of work.

🥇 You are the ideal candidate if:

You have initial experience as an IT Administrator, ideally in a context of strong growth and heavy use of SaaS

You are comfortable with Apple environments and familiar with the administration of SaaS (such as Google Workspace, MDM like Jamf, Okta, ticket management tool.)

Scripting experience is a plus (Bash/Zsh, Python)

You have a taste for exchange and communication: as an IT Administrator, you are expected to be in daily contact with all Pennylane teams, as well as presenting and explaining IT rules and best practices

You are rigorous and able to solve problems completely autonomously

You are sensitive to security and compliance issues (data protection, access rights management, experience with ISO 27001 or SOC 2 would be a plus)

You speak and write in English, French is a plus.

What do we do to make your work life easier :

🏥 You’ll have a great healthcare cover (Alan Blue) to take care of yourself and your family

🍜 You’ll have lunch credits (Swile card) to buy your favorite food every day

🏢 You’ll be able to work from our wonderful office in the center of Paris, or from any

🏡 If you have a fully remote contract, you’ll have a budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a coworking space whenever you feel like it

🏝You’ll get 10 additional days off (to the 25 standard ones) to rest and do what you love each year

Through our partner Gymlib, you’ll have access to 8000 fitness spaces and more than 300 activities related to wellness

🇬🇧 You’ll have access to to perfect your english or learn a new langage of your choice

💻 You’ll get the latest Apple equipment

🎉 You’ll be part of a vibrant social community : we do lots of sports together (Foot, running, climbing…), we love to hang out and have a drink together (thursday afterwork drinks on our rooftop is a usual thing. Twice-a-year we do company seminars, last time we went on a trip to the French Alps and it was fabulous !)

🤝 Recruitment Process

First screening with Romain, Talent Acquisition Manager (30min)

Interview with Thomas, IT Manager (45 min)

Case study at home (30 minutes) and restitution (20 minutes)

Interview with Guillaume, Head of Information Security (45 min)

Interview with Felix, COO & Co-founder (30 min)

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