Full-Time
Leader Contrôle financier
Contrôle interne et consolidation
KIABI
Affordable family fashion retailer
No salary listed
Lezennes, France
In Person
Bachelor's
Category
 Accounting (1) |
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Required Skills
Forecasting
Financial analysis
Data Governance
Data Analysis
Requirements
- A Bac+5 qualification from a business school, engineering school, or equivalent is required.
- At least 10 years of experience in audit, financial controlling, consolidation, or internal control within an international group environment is required.
- Recognized expertise in financial performance management, consolidation, and risk governance is required.
- A good understanding of ESG matters and CSRD compliance is required.
- The candidate must be able to structure reliable, auditable, decision-oriented reporting systems.
- Confirmed leadership, strong analytical ability, and ease in interactions with top management are required.
- Strong proficiency with financial tools and excellent data literacy are required.
- Fluent English is required.
Responsibilities
- Guarantee the reliability of financial and extra-financial data produced by entities, business functions, and central functions.
- Build an integrated view of performance by connecting results, cash, balance sheet, capital expenditure, inventory, and key extra-financial indicators.
- Supervise closings, forecasts, budgets, and plans while aligning economic performance with the ESG trajectory.
- Analyze variances, identify risks or inconsistencies, and propose corrective actions.
- Produce analyses and reports for the Chief Financial Officer and General Management to support decision-making.
- Contribute to implementing the management and reporting framework required by the CSRD.
- Help define indicators, management rules, production responsibilities, and control systems for extra-financial data.
- Ensure the reliability of sustainability-data collection, consolidation, documentation, and review processes.
- Ensure consistency between financial reporting, sustainability reporting, and data governance.
- Lead the Group's statutory and management consolidation process.
- Define and update closing instructions, the calendar, reporting rules, and consolidation principles.
- Guarantee the quality of reporting packages, adjustments, intercompany eliminations, and related documentation.
- Supervise the production of consolidated statements and analyses for the Chief Financial Officer, General Management, shareholders, and auditors.
- Act as the technical consolidation expert and support changes affecting financial production.
- Build and maintain the Group's internal-control framework for key finance, data, and business processes.
- Map financial, operational, regulatory, and extra-financial risks, then define key controls and related remediation plans.
- Lead testing campaigns, evaluate control effectiveness, and monitor action plans.
- Promote a pragmatic, risk-oriented internal-control culture across the Group.
- Act as the primary contact for statutory auditors on financial control, consolidation, internal control, and data reliability matters.
- Coordinate audit work and secure the quality of submitted materials and responses.
- Prepare summary and decision-support materials for the Chief Financial Officer and governance bodies.
- Optimize tools, processes, and reports to improve the quality, speed, traceability, and auditability of information.
- Harmonize definitions, management rules, reporting formats, and monitoring indicators across the Group.
- Secure closing, consolidation, internal-control, and extra-financial-reporting processes.
- Support team development through a clear framework and robust standards.
- Manage, lead, and develop the team.
- Strengthen employees' technical, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
- Promote cross-functional, demanding, and collaborative working with Finance, ESG, and business teams.
- Lead the vision and transformation of the function in line with the ambitions of the Finance Department.
KIABI is an affordable family-fashion retailer. It develops and sells clothing and accessories for adults and children through stores and digital channels. Retail operations connect with product, sourcing, production, logistics, merchandising, and ecommerce teams. Store colleagues, designers, buyers, supply-chain specialists, digital teams, and corporate functions support the brand. The profile covers KIABI and recognizes that regional career pages may represent different parts of its international operation. Its workforce connects frontline delivery with the specialist, operational, technical, and business teams that support the organization.
Company Size
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Company Stage
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Total Funding
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Headquarters
Hem, France
Founded
1978
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Kiabi launched activewear in February 2026, extending share of wallet beyond basics.
- Spain and Portugal are targeted for 7-10 yearly openings, supporting steady growth.
- Sixty-three Spanish stores in 2023 and 74 by late 2025 show durable Iberian demand.
What critics are saying
- Kiabi’s workforce fell 10.2% to 9,765 by March 2026, signaling operating pressure.
- Marketplace third-party sellers handle shipping and complaints, risking customer-service failures and brand damage.
- If Spain and Italy marketplace rollouts underperform, Kiabi loses margin to Amazon and Shein.
What makes KIABI unique
- Kiabi keeps 74 Spanish stores, mixing owned, affiliated, and franchise formats in Iberia.
- The 2026 800-square-meter store format targets urban expansion without sacrificing family assortment.
- Beebs second-hand, Kiabi Home, and marketplace expansion create a wider value ecosystem.
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