WW Managing Controlling Director

LVMH; Roma; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fendi seeks a WW Managing Controlling Director to lead the Management Control function worldwide, overseeing financial planning, performance management and business controlling across Corporate, Industrial and Retail. You will partner with the CFO and senior leadership, translating data into actionable insights and ensuring alignment between strategy, targets and execution.

The role drives financial discipline and supports growth, investments and resource allocation, working across luxury

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in management control, FP&A or finance with leadership responsibility.
• Experience managing an international controlling perimeter across corporate, industrial and retail.
• Strong understanding of P&L, budgeting, forecasting, cost structures, industrial margins and performance management.
• Experience within luxury, fashion, industrial or consumer goods environments preferred.
• Strong track record as a business partner to CFOs and senior business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budget, forecasting and multi-year planning across Corporate, Industrial and Retail functions.
• Translate Fendi’s strategic priorities into financial targets, KPIs and actionable plans.
• Consolidate and challenge financial assumptions, ensuring consistency across functions and business areas.
• Provide the CFO and Executive Management with forward-looking analyses, scenarios and recommendations to support strategic decision-making.
• Lead financial controlling across Fendi’s industrial perimeter, providing a comprehensive view of production costs, industrial performance, margins and profitability.
• Monitor industrial KPIs, production economics, capacity utilization and cost evolution, supporting decision-making across factories and product categories.
• Oversee industrial margin analysis through to the consolidated financial view, ensuring a strong connection between manufacturing economics and overall business performance.
• Partner with Industrial, Supply Chain and Product teams to identify efficiencies and proactively manage financial risks and opportunities.
• Oversee Corporate cost controlling, ensuring effective planning and monitoring of HQ functions and resources.
• Partner with functional leaders to challenge spending, investments and organizational initiatives.
• Drive transparency on cost evolution, efficiencies and resource allocation, identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Oversee WW Retail channel controlling, ensuring visibility on sales, profitability, operating expenses and store performance across markets and regions.
• Monitor performance against budget and forecast, identifying trends, deviations, risks and business opportunities.
• Provide a consolidated view of commercial performance, enabling effective comparison across markets, channels and regions.
• Lead, develop and coordinate the Controlling team at HQ level and Regional finance teams.
• Foster collaboration between Finance and business functions, promoting an agile and pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Drive continuous improvement and digitalization of planning, reporting and performance-management tools.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Financial acumen

FP&A

Business partnering

Communication

Presentation skills

Education

Degree in Economics, Finance, or Business Administration

Job description

The WW Managing Controlling Director leads FENDI’s Management Control function worldwide, overseeing financial planning, performance management and business controlling across Corporate, Industrial and Retail pillars.

Acting as a strategic partner to the CFO and senior leadership, the role provides a comprehensive view of business performance, translating financial and operational data into actionable insights and ensuring consistency between strategic ambitions, financial targets and operational execution.

The Director drives financial discipline across the organization while supporting business leaders in making informed decisions on growth, profitability, investments and resource allocation.

Job responsibilities

Strategic Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Lead the annual budget, forecasting and multi-year planning processes across Corporate, Industrial and Retail functions.
• Translate FENDI’s strategic priorities into financial targets, KPIs and actionable plans.
• Consolidate and challenge financial assumptions, ensuring consistency across functions and business areas.
• Provide the CFO and Executive Management with forward-looking analyses, scenarios and recommendations to support strategic decision‑making.
• Lead financial controlling across FENDI’s industrial perimeter, providing a comprehensive view of production costs, industrial performance, margins and profitability.
• Monitor industrial KPIs, production economics, capacity utilization and cost evolution, supporting decision‑making across factories and product categories.
• Oversee industrial margin analysis through to the consolidated financial view, ensuring a strong connection between manufacturing economics and overall business performance.
• Partner with Industrial, Supply Chain and Product teams to identify efficiencies and proactively manage financial risks and opportunities.

Corporate & HQ Controlling

• Oversee Corporate cost controlling, ensuring effective planning and monitoring of HQ functions and resources.
• Partner with functional leaders to challenge spending, investments and organizational initiatives.
• Drive transparency on cost evolution, efficiencies and resource allocation, identifying opportunities for optimization.

Retail & Commercial Performance

• Oversee WW Retail channel controlling, ensuring visibility on sales, profitability, operating expenses and store performance across markets and regions.
• Monitor performance against budget and forecast, identifying trends, deviations, risks and business opportunities.
• Provide a consolidated view of commercial performance, enabling effective comparison across markets, channels and regions.

Leadership & Transformation

• Lead, develop and coordinate the Controlling team at HQ level and Regional finance teams.
• Foster collaboration between Finance and business functions, promoting an agile and pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Drive continuous improvement and digitalization of planning, reporting and performance-management tools.

Profile

• Degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Management Control, FP&A or Finance, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Proven experience managing a complex and international controlling perimeter, ideally combining Corporate, Industrial and Commercial/Retail activities.
• Strong understanding of P&L, budgeting, forecasting, cost structures, industrial margins, profitability analysis and performance management.
• Solid experience in manufacturing or industrial controlling is particularly for an end-to-end understanding of industrial costs and consolidated margins.
• Experience within luxury, fashion, industrial or consumer goods environments preferred.
• Strong track record as a business partner to CFOs and senior business leaders.
• Strategic and business‑oriented financial mindset.
• Strong analytical capabilities combined with the ability to translate complexity into clear business insights.
• Solid understanding of both industrial economics and retail/commercial dynamics.
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders constructively and influence decision‑making.
• Strong leadership and team‑development capabilities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Pragmatic, collaborative and hands‑on approach, combined with the seniority required to operate in a complex WW organization.

Additional information

LVMH is committed to non‑discrimination and respect or each person’s singularities. We recognize and recruit all types of talent.

The FendiMaison was established by Adele and Edoardo Fendi in Rome in 1925. The opening of the first Fendiboutique - a handbag shop and fur workshop followed. Soon winning international acclaim, Fendi emerged as a brand renowned for its elegance, craftsmanship, innovation and style. Called by the legendary five Fendi sisters, the collaboration with the late Karl Lagerfeld began back in 1965 and lasted 54 years. In 1992, Silvia Venturini Fendi seconded him in the Artistic Direction; in 1994, she is given the direction of Accessories and later of Menswear. In 2000, the LVMH group acquires Fendi becoming in 2001 its majority shareholder. Appointed in 2020, Kim Jones held the role of Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear until 2024. Since 2020, Delfina Delettrez Fendi, fourth generation of the Fendi family, is Artistic Director of Jewellery. Today Fendi is synonymous with quality, tradition, experimentation and creativity.