Finance Manager - Perfume & Beauty

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