Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
· Lead company financial cycles: Annual budget, monthly closing and quarterly reforecast.
· Analyze margin and contribution performance across channels and product categories, providing insights to support profitable growth.
· Oversee inventory performance across warehouses and stores, assessing financial impacts and supporting actions to optimize stock levels.
· Act as a strategic partner to the business on Opex management, proactively identifying efficiency opportunities and recommending initiatives to improve cost structure and profitability.
· Lead Capex oversight by evaluating investment cases, tracking performance against business objectives, and assessing investment profitability.
· Take accountability for the direction, control and coordination of all financial activities for the departments including cost controls / contingency planning.
· Provide variance analysis to understand potential risk and opportunities with respect to financial results.
· Drive translation of strategic plan into an annual budget. Ensure the annual plan is supported by detailed action plans resulting in a realistic, achievable budget.
· Identify, recommend and monitor KPI for measuring financial and operating performance.
· Provide strategic financial insights and actively challenge business assumptions to support executive decision-making
· Develop strong cross-functional partnerships to support the departments.
· Review and optimize ERP set up to optimize financial processes and ensure data quality and reliability.
· Leads continuous improvement projects to be better support and champion the business
· Assists in establishing policies and procedures.
· Ensures compliance with company policies including, but not limited to, proper accounting of risks, financial controls, purchase commitments and levels of authority.
· Participates in or leads strategic / tactical business initiatives (may or may not be financial) that provide broad-based value for the group.
Leadership & People Development
· Lead and develop a team of 3 FP&A managers
· Foster a culture of growth mindset and continuous improvement, encouraging teams to challenge the status quo and adopt new ways of working aligned with Diptyque priorities
· Build strong cross functional partnerships across departments and with HQ in France to ensure alignment and global best practices sharing.
· Champion talent development and succession planning within key functional areas.