About this role
Responsibilities
Business Controlling
- Prepare, challenge and consolidate budgets and forecasts in collaboration with local and central teams.
- Act as a key business partner to the General Manager, drive achievement of financial targets and proactively communicate risks and opportunities versus objectives.
- Lead monthly closing processes in coordination with central accounting.
- Analyze variances between year-to-date results and budget, and prepare year-to-go analyses.
- Monitor and control all regional budgets.
- Analyze and report sell-out performance.
- Define, implement and monitor key performance indicators.
- Design and optimize tools and processes for accounting and finance topics.
- Follow up on the regional investment process.
Tax and Accounting
- Partner closely with the central accounting team to ensure timely supplier payments and effective customer payments and credit control.
- Contribute to the production of financial statements.
- Serve as the regional contact point for headquarters on customer and vendor contracts.
Internal Control & Compliance
- Implement and adapt Group internal control rules and procedures to local and business requirements.
- Communicate internal control standards and provide training to local teams.
- Ensure transparent reporting to headquarters and drive related action plans.
IT & Systems
- Act as the primary regional contact for headquarters IT teams to support the smooth rollout of IT projects o Interfaces with customers (EDI) o Interfaces with central systems, and external providers
Pricing
- Ensure a coherent pricing strategy across the region, balancing local and global requirements.
- Maintain and formalize the customer price structure database.
- Issue price lists in collaboration with central controlling team.
Team Management
- Manage 2 collaborators to be in line with Hermès management values
Profile
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field
- Minimum 10 years of experience in business controlling
- Fluent English and proficiency in French is an advantage
- Experience in the Perfumes & Cosmetics sector, retail or wholesale is a strong asset
- Solid understanding of retail principles and practices
- Good knowledge of basic accounting principles
- Strong analytical skills combined with commercial acumen
- Highly organized, proactive and able to work effectively under tight deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative team-player approach
- Strong IT proficiency, including advanced Excel, PowerPoint, TM1 and SAP