The employees of Nexia S&A's IBS (International Business Services) division support subsidiaries of foreign groups in their establishment and development in France. From accounting to taxation, the team ensures the compliance of their operations and smooth communication with their parent companies. Adrien Lassays, supervisor within the IBS division, found a field of expression that matched his taste for precision and openness.

“Accounting was not a choice at the beginning.” Adrien Lassays smiles. After three years of studying pure mathematics, he felt the need to “reconnect with reality.” Accounting is then obvious: “What I like is the reality behind the numbers, the human and economic dimension.”

Its missions relate to the revision or closure of annual accounts, sometimes involving social or fiscal issues. For a particular type of case: that of the IBS division. Adrien assists French subsidiaries of foreign groups based in the United States, Denmark, Denmark, Denmark, Poland, Poland, England, Germany, or even Spain, for example. “These clients keep their accounts in accordance with local standards and need our expertise both for group reporting and to present fair accounting and fiscal results from a French point of view.”

His mathematical background allows him to master the dual accounting framework like no one else. “It's very technical. You have to search, being curious is like untangling a ball of wires.” And, if necessary, he connects on other services from the firm. “This is the strength of Nexia S&A: a global network and varied service lines.”

Its missions can last three days or six weeks, depending on the size of the customers - from 50 million to 1 billion euros in turnover. Adrien is thus following Avis, the car rental company, Affinity, which specializes in animal feed, or Ebly, a subsidiary of the Mars group. “Each case is unique. Constraints are changing. The interlocutors too. One day they are in Spain, another in Poland with a shared services center in India...”

Having become a supervisor, Adrien now manages teams. He organizes missions, clients, junior trains: “Creating the next generation, transmitting the reflexes I have acquired, that's what I prefer today.” Perhaps, one day, before really going abroad. In the USA, in Asia, within the Nexia network... “I like to challenge myself. Routine is not for me.”

“Foreign customers always ask a lot of questions. Between paid leave, RTTs, taxes and their evolutions, France and its accounting, social and fiscal system seem very complex to them. Our role is also to make all of this clearer and more readable.”

Travel at your own pace

Adrien likes cities where people take the time to live. Madrid comes out on top: he goes there often, meets up with friends, wanders randomly through the streets or in Retiro Park, “Madrid's Central Park.” Museums, terraces, markets: a rhythm that is both lively and peaceful. Lebanon, which he discovered recently, also marked him by the warmth of its inhabitants. And one day, he will go to Japan, “to see for myself this country whose culture has fascinated me since childhood.”