Senior Financial Controller – FP&A Corporate

Senior Financial Controller

Kering, a global luxury group born from a family and entrepreneurial history, brings together a collection of houses recognized for their creativity in couture and ready-to-wear, leather goods, jewelry, eyewear, and beauty:
Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo, Qeelin, Ginori 1735, as well as Kering Eyewear and Kering Beauté. Inspired by their history and heritage, the Group's houses design and craft exceptional products and experiences that reflect Kering's commitment to excellence, sustainable development, and culture. This vision is embodied in the Group's signature:
Creativity is our Legacy.

We are currently looking for a Senior Financial Controller to join and strengthen our Corporate FP&A team on a permanent basis based in Paris.

Within the Finance Planning & Analysis department of Kering's Corporate activities, you will join a dynamic team. Reporting to the Manager of Financial Control, you will act as a true business partner for the division's departments, at the heart of financial management and continuous improvement challenges. This position is for a profile looking to evolve in a demanding, international environment open to new tools.

Your main duties will include:

Clôtures & Reporting – Kering SA (France perimeter)

• Participate actively in monthly accounting closures via SAP (passing FNP, reclassifications, data reliability, coordination with accounting)
• Verify the upload in the consolidation system (HFM)
• Produce the closure book and analyze performance vs budget and N-1
• Analyze corporate investments and the Group's structuring projects
• Reconciliation of I/C flows in case of discrepancies

2/Budgeting process (3 exercises per year)

• Accompany the departments in the construction of their budgets
• Consolidate and challenge the assumptions
• Integrate forecast and budget assumptions into the systems (SAC/RUBIS/HFM)

Financial Control – Finance Business Partner (Worldwide perimeter)

​1/Monthly closure

• Accompany the Directors of cost centers in their performance challenges
• Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPI)
• Produce and analyze financial reports (monthly and quarterly)

2/Budgeting process

• Accompany department directors in the construction of their budget and ensure the consistency of their assumptions with local inputs
• Challenge the analyses uploaded by local teams
• Perform detailed analyses of P&L vs Budget, Forecast and N-1
• Prepare presentations and recommendations for management

Projects and transformation

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of tools and reporting
• Participate in transformation projects (finance, data, tools)
• Perform ad hoc analyses with high added value (ROI, benchmark, cost optimization…)
• Prepare presentation materials

• You hold a degree of BAC +5 level, specialized in Finance/management (business school, engineering school, university,...)
• You have approximately 5 years of experience in audit/financial control. Experience in consulting is a plus.
• Fluent English and French are indispensable
• Great rigor, organization, versatility, ease with numbers
• Analytical capacity and synthesis spirit
• Interpersonal skills and taste for cross-functional work
• Openness of mind and appetite for new challenges
• Strong sensitivity to tools, data, and improvement of practices
• Excellent mastery of Excel and PowerPoint, Power BI, knowledge of SAP, HFM is appreciated

Through its employees, Kering is committed to diversity. We believe that diversity in all its forms - gender, age, nationality, culture, religious beliefs, and sexual orientation - enriches the workplace. Our employees thus have opportunities to express their talents, both individually and collectively, and this contributes to strengthening our ability to adapt to a changing world. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their background.

Job Type

Regular

Start Date

Schedule

Full time

Organization

Kering SA