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KIABI

Low-cost family fashion retailer worldwide

Financial Control Leader - Internal Control and Consolidation

Financial AccountingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLezennes, FranceIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A master's-level qualification (Bac+5) from a business school, in engineering, or equivalent.
  • At least 10 years of experience in audit, financial control, consolidation, or internal control in an international group environment.
  • Recognized expertise in financial performance management, consolidation, and risk governance.
  • Good understanding of ESG issues and CSRD compliance.
  • Ability to structure reliable, auditable, decision-oriented reporting systems.
  • Demonstrated leadership, strong analytical ability, and confidence communicating with top management.
  • Proficiency with financial tools and strong data literacy.
  • Fluent English.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the reliability of financial and extra-financial data produced by entities, business divisions, and central functions.
  • Build an integrated view of performance covering results, cash, balance sheet, capital expenditure, inventory, and key extra-financial indicators.
  • Oversee period-end closes, forecasts, budgets, and plans, ensuring alignment between economic performance and the ESG trajectory.
  • Analyze variances, identify risks or inconsistencies, and propose corrective actions.
  • Produce analyses and reports for the Chief Financial Officer and executive management to inform decision-making.
  • Contribute to implementing a management and reporting framework that meets CSRD requirements.
  • Help define indicators, management rules, production responsibilities, and controls for extra-financial data.
  • Improve the collection, consolidation, documentation, and review of sustainability data.
  • Ensure consistency between financial reporting, sustainability reporting, and data governance so the system remains sustainable and auditable.
  • Lead the group's statutory and management consolidation process.
  • Define and update closing instructions, the calendar, reporting rules, and consolidation principles.
  • Ensure the quality of reporting packages, adjustments, intercompany eliminations, and related documentation.
  • Oversee consolidated statements and analyses for the Chief Financial Officer, executive management, shareholders, and auditors.
  • Act as the technical reference for consolidation matters and support changes affecting financial production.
  • Develop and maintain the group's internal-control framework across key finance, data, and business processes.
  • Map financial, operational, regulatory, and extra-financial risks, then define key controls and remediation plans.
  • Lead control-testing campaigns, assess control effectiveness, and track action plans.
  • Promote a pragmatic, risk-oriented internal-control culture across the group.
  • Serve as the primary contact for statutory auditors on financial control, consolidation, internal control, and data reliability.
  • Coordinate audit work and ensure the quality of supporting materials and responses.
  • Prepare summary and decision-support materials for the Chief Financial Officer and governance bodies.
  • Optimize tools, processes, and reporting to improve information quality, speed, traceability, and auditability.
  • Harmonize definitions, management rules, reporting formats, and monitoring indicators across the group.
  • Secure closing, consolidation, internal-control, and extra-financial reporting processes.
  • Support team capability development through clear frameworks and robust standards.
  • Manage, lead, and develop the team; strengthen employees' technical, analytical, and interpersonal skills; foster cross-functional collaboration with Finance, ESG, and business teams; and lead the function's transformation in line with Finance leadership's objectives.

About the Company

KIABI

Low-cost family fashion retailer worldwide

KIABI offers affordable fashion for the whole family, with a focus on low-cost ready-to-wear. Its product lines are designed in France by an in-house team of 56 fashion designers, and the company sells through a network of more than 505 shops worldwide. The fashion ranges are created in-house and then produced to be accessible and easy to wear for people of all ages and nationalities. The company operates with a straightforward business model: make simple, universal clothing at low prices and keep costs down by managing design in-house and selling through a large retail network. Compared with competitors, KIABI stands out thanks to its large global presence, French design origin, and emphasis on universality and joie de vivre in its branding, aiming to be the go-to source for affordable family fashion. Its goal is to keep fashion accessible for everyone while growing its international reach and maintaining French design sensibilities.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Hem, France
Founded
1978

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