CDI- Controlling Manager

LVMH Group; Paris; Hybride; EUR 100 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

LVMH Métiers d'Art in Paris seeks a Controlling Manager to oversee industrial controlling, financial planning, reporting, and performance improvement across the perimeter. The role emphasizes partnering with entities, building robust financial models, and harmonizing costing to deliver measurable value.

The candidate will drive efficiency through data analytics, contribute to strategic planning, and integrate eco-transformation considerations into projections.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years in industrial controlling, manufacturing environment
• Finance business partner with credibility to challenge stakeholders
• Track record in performance improvement and transformation projects

Responsabilités

• Act as a strategic finance partner to the entities within the scope
• Strengthen analytical structures and controlling frameworks to improve visibility and decision-making
• Review, challenge, and harmonize costing methodologies and stock valuation across the perimeter
• Standardize industrial variances, monitor action plans, and ensure corrective measures are implemented
• Coordinate and consolidate industrial performance reporting focused on revenue, costs, margins, and KPIs
• Participate in monthly and annual closing operations with reliable reporting
• Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives and business growth
• Monitor performance against budget, forecast, and targets; flag risks and opportunities

Formation

Master's degree

Outils

BI Solutions

ERP Systems

Description du poste

Founded in 2015, LVMH Métiers d'Art, a specialized division within the LVMH Group, plays a crucial role in safeguarding and advancing the supply of raw materials for its fashion houses.

Active globally in leather, exotic leathers, high-quality metal hardware, LVMH Métiers d’Art not only contributes to the creation of luxury products but also plays a crucial role in preserving artisanal heritage, ensuring traditional skills are passed down to future generations and fostering a sustainable ecosystem of craftsmanship.

Comprising 17 industrial companies, LVMH Métiers d'Art employs approximately 2,600 individuals, with a significant presence across Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, and Singapore. These companies typically share a cultural heritage rooted in family ownership, are agile due to their smaller scale, boast efficient decision-making processes, and exhibit a strong entrepreneurial spirit.

Job responsibilities

The Controlling Manager acts as the financial co-pilot of the assigned perimeter, ensuring strong performance steering, reliable financial visibility, and effective support to decision-making. The role combines industrial controlling, financial planning, reporting, and performance improvement, with a strong focus on harmonizing practices, challenging the business, and delivering measurable value creation.

• Act as a strategic finance partner to the entities within the scope, bringing a transversal perspective to identify synergies, share best practices, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strengthen analytical structures and controlling frameworks to improve visibility, consistency and decision-making
• Review, challenge, and help harmonize costing methodologies, stock valuation principles, and industrial controlling practices across the perimeter.
• Standardize industrial variances, monitor action plans, and ensure corrective measures are implemented.
• Coordinate and consolidate industrial performance reporting, with a focus on revenue, cost structure, margins, and key operational KPIs, to provide clear, actionable and decision-oriented insights to MdA Management.

2.Financial Reporting & Activity Monitoring:

• Participate in monthly and annual closing operations, ensuring reliability, consistency and relevance of reported figures
• Improve the quality, consistency, and impact of monthly reporting by preparing comprehensive activity notes, as well as quarterly and annual financial reporting materials.
• Conduct ad hoc financial and operational analyses to support decision-making and identify risks, deviations and performance improvement opportunities.
• Monitor cash flow and Capex trends, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and business needs.
• Contribute to the production of management reporting with a strong focus on clarity, accuracy, and business relevance.
• Drives the development of financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives and business growth
• Monitor financial performance against budget, forecast, and strategic targets, raise alerts where needed and challenge recovery plans.

3.Budget and Strategic Planning:

• Lead and coordinate the budget process (including revisions) for the assigned perimeter, including the preparation of supporting materials and presentation of key assumptions and conclusions
• Challenge local assumptions, cost trajectories, and business scenarios
• Support entities in developing robust multi-year business plans and relevant scenarios.
• Build financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives and business development.
• Integrate eco-transformation decisions into financial projections
• Support the monitoring of financial performance against budget, forecast, and strategic targets, ensuring clear visibility on risks and opportunities
• Evaluate, monitor, and challenge continuous improvement and operational excellence projects, ensuring the robustness of assumptions, effective delivery of expected benefits, and their accurate financial translation into reporting.
• Lead initiatives to enhance financial processes and performance monitoring tools, leveraging BI solutions, and ensuring data reliability and transparency across all Métiers and headquarters functions.
• Drive productivity and industrial efficiency projects, supporting their financial evaluation and tracking their impact on value creation.

Profile

• Experience:
• Minimum of 8-10 years of professional background, including significant exposure to industrial controlling in a manufacturing environment; prior experience in audit is a plus.
• Proven ability to operate as a finance business partner and to challenge both financial and operational stakeholders in a constructive and credible manner.
• Demonstrated track record in performance improvement, transformation projects, and financial support to operational decision-making
• Skills:
  • Strong expertise in industrial controlling, with solid experience in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and performance monitoring.
  • Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to move from detail to synthesis and translate data into actionable recommendations.
  • Hands-on, rigorous, and pragmatic approach, with high standards in terms of reliability and data quality.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to present complex financial insights and strategic recommendations clearly and effectively.
  • Ability to work in a decentralized, international, and evolving environment.
  • Proficiency in French & English; fluency in Italian, Spanish or Portuguese is a plus.
• Education: Master’s degree in business, Management, Engineering, or a related field
• Location: The position is based in Paris and requires travels

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