Internal Control Manager, Corsico, Italy

Reference code: JR129503

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 Internal Control Manager based in Milan - Maciachini, you will oversee and manage the internal control system for the Italian and Greek market. you will act as a primary point of contact for ICS and compliance matters, collaborating closely with local management, Maison local HQ, while ensuring the alignment with the Group and Region (EU) guidelines.

HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?

Lead the ICS yearly cycle, by engaging with the control owners and the local management to test the design of internal controls. Successfully lead the process to the sign-off.
Work with control owners to identify and implement control enhancement designed to facilitate management's annual self-assessments.
Periodically monitor progress of issue remediation and follow up with the control owners when delays or deviations from the agreed action plans are identified. Perform remediation reviews to verify controls effectiveness after a period of operation.
Coordinate some aspects of the user access for IT applications and segregation of duties (SOD) reviews. Periodically validate the scoping of access reviews for the locally sourced applications and support the application owners in the review process and remediation of unwarranted access.
Partner with local Finance and Function and Maisons to coordinate the implementation of new Group/Region/Local guidelines and policies, while ensuring the applicability by the local management and the alignment with the Group.
Support Retail Finance in applying the audit boutique review framework, in performing some audits, in analyzing and communicating the results and in ensuring the follow-up of the action plan.
Partner with functional area management in new process streamlining, or efficiency improvement projects to redesign or establish new controls as part of the revised or new process implementations. Support management in the revision and creation of policies as well as documenting processes in flow charts, procedure and matrices.
Actively facilitate the provision of internal documentation. You identify and implement continuous improvements based on internal client needs, optimizing the relevance and accessibility of our documentary resources.
Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for ICS within the Richemont European network, actively sharing and gathering best practices with European peers. Leverage this network to drive improvements and solve problems effectively within your local market.
Collaborate with internal and external auditors on ICS matters during periodic reviews.
Monitor regulatory developments at local level and assess their impact on internal control and compliance practices

HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCCESS WITH US?

· Bachelor or Master degree in Administration or Finance

· Professional experience in internal controls, compliance, risk management, controlling, or a comparable function ideally in the environment of retail operations

· Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects to completion.

· Ability to analyze large data sets and compile detailed reporting

· Knowledge of IT system access analysis and SOD conflict resolution

· Functional knowledge of SAP preferred

· Proven digitalization and automatizations is a plus

· Unquestioned personal integrity with strong ethics and values consistent with company culture

· Displays awareness of the need for confidentiality in sensitive matters

· Independent and self-starter, positive attitude, curious, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills

· Strong analytical capability with a logical approach to identifying and evaluating issues and problem solving