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