CDI- Controlling Manager

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.
• Demonstrat