Senior Financial Controller - CDI F/H

ORGANISATION

• Manager:  Brand Finance Manager
• Management: 1 direct report
• Job Location: Paris
• Contract type : Permanent

RESPONSABILITES

1. Business Finance Partner - performance evaluation and decision support for Commercial and/or Category leaders

Provide financial perspective to the Commercial team to deliver business results and recommend ways to improve performance and effectiveness.

• Provide analysis on sales and profitability by line, subline, by country and by channel
• Implement  appropriate dashboards and KPI to give visibility on the brand performance
• Identify risks and opportunities and propose corrective measure
• Support the department in producing business cases, ROI for marketing investments and make recommendations for better allocation and efficiency
• Participate to the monthly / quarterly forecasting process and gross margin evaluation
• Be accountable to  run financials for upcoming new launches and lead the GM overview discussion with Brand Lead teams

• Ensure to provide all financials required by the fashion house and  that the contractual obligations are met
• Management of 1 direct report

2. Budget/forecasting/Reporting

• Define with business teams the annual budget and periodic forecasts - challenge assumptions, variances, and influence efficiencies in line with Group finance guidelines
• Support with the consolidation group for  Budgeting & Forecasting, monthly closing (analysis and commentary) and also monthly/ quarterly forecast process
• Support the brand development/central cost controller in building budget and actual analysis
• Own and drive finance reporting dashboards across business teams

PROFILE

• Previous experience operating in Finance Business Partnering role in FMCG or Beauty sector
• Ability to challenge effectively on budgets and forecasts
• Ability to communicate financial information and analysis to a very senior audience
• Experience of driving the business decision-making process
• Demonstrable ability to identify and analyse key business drivers
• Strong influencing, networking and relationship building skills to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders both within Finance and across the business
• Strong numeracy and experience with the Microsoft office suite
• Strong system skills (SAP)
• Strong drive to improve status quo , self-starter and proactive
• Progressive proven working experience between 5-8 years with people responsibility