Reference code: JR129448
Richemont owns some of the world’s leading luxury goods Maisons, with particular strengths in jewellery, fine watches and premium accessories. Each Maison represents a proud tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont seeks to preserve the heritage and identity of each of its Maisons. At the same time, we are committed to innovation and designing new products which are in keeping with our Maisons’ values, through a process of continuous creativity.
YOUR MISSION:
As part of the Richemont Europe finance team, the Regional Internal Control Manager supports the increasing need for compliance and requirements for internal control, in line with the Group Internal control guidelines and requirements. This position is central in the control environment of Richemont Europe with both the coordination of local ICS, as well as many business developments projects in all the European markets in scope.
This position has a double aspect: act as ICS leader for the regional managing company (including European wholesale, E-commerce activities and supervision of Benelux & Nordics ICS activities) and act as coordinator for all the activities in the European markets.
This position implies to be in contact with a very broad range of actors internally and externally: local CFO, ICS, retail back offices, Group Finance, Regional Exco, as well as internal and external auditors.
HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?
- Internal control activities of the entity RLG Europe:
- Review and update risk matrices, perform subsequent testing and issue adequate reporting to Group in line with management’s expectations
- Review system access rights and inherent segregation of duties, ensure mitigations are in place
- Be the contact point for external auditors (preparation of the audits, responses, etc.)
- Prepare and supervise bi‐annual stock counts
- Support management in ad‐hoc initiatives aimed at strengthening the compliance effort.
- Document or provide guidelines for documenting processes, procedures and user guides.
- Ensure clear communication by animating the European Finance Intranet and other relevant online platforms
- Regional compliance processes
- Coordinate and animate the regional RFBO SME (retail financial back office subject matter experts) community
- Increase harmonization of processes in the Region
- Coordinate regional process audits
- Compliance in the 7 markets belonging to the “Europe” region
- Ensure the sharing of internal control best practices throughout Europe region
- Schedule and perform Internal Control reviews of the markets to ensure adequate and sustained compliance. Follow up on issues uncovered and analyse deficiencies. Monitor adequate resolution of issues.
- Support the markets in their relationship with internal auditors and bring expertise to the resolution of issues noted. Follow up on issues uncovered and analyse deficiencies
- Train newcomers on the Richemont internal controls framework and available tools
- Oversee brand first-time implementation of internal control framework in newly‐set up markets or markets newly in scope.
- Supervise the Benelux & Nordics ICS Manager and its activities
- Support all other stakeholders:
- Participate to best practice projects
- Perform wholesale back‐office controls pursuant to brand commercial policies
- Issue ICS reporting including, for example, consignment stock status, discounts granted in boutiques and to wholesalers
- Develop collaborative approach with both internal and external auditors
- Develop close but independent working relationships with all levels of management in all areas of the business to ensure open communication and to provide consultation and support on remediation efforts and ICS requirements
- Support the Brands in their effort to write & implement worldwide wholesale procedures
- Project support
- Participate to RLGE and region ad hoc projects
HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCCESS WITH US?
- Master in Finance or similar fields.
- Experience in a Big 4
- SAP knowledge
- New data analytics tools (celonis)
- Retail and wholesale business practices
- Laws and regulations in the European countries
- Proactive on-going awareness of the luxury industry and the new retail evolution
- Giving a previous audit experience is a big advantage in order to better take care of the audits in our scope.
- You are fluent in English and French
Still wondering why, you should apply ?
You will join a friendly and dynamic team with whom you will be able to share your knowledge and expertise
- Entrepreneurship, trust, integrity and agile learning are part of our great team spirit
- You will interact with numerous stakeholders across Maisons, Functions
WHAT MAKES OUR GROUP DIFFERENT ?
Our true power does not lie in our similarities but in the rich diversity of our arts, cultures, and human skills, as well as our specific ability to foster untapped potential.
- We value freedom, collegiality, loyalty, and solidarity.
- We foster empathy, curiosity, courage, humility, and integrity.
- We care for the world we live in.
YOUR JOURNEY WITH US
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If your profile matches our search, you will be contacted by our HR team for an interview.
Otherwise, you will receive an email to inform you that your application has not been successful.
