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Sézane

Direct-to-consumer Parisian fashion brand

Financial Controller

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A higher-education qualification from a business school, engineering school, or university, with a specialization in finance or management control.
  • Five to six years of experience in management control, including experience in retail, luxury, or ready-to-wear.
  • Good understanding of collection, production, and product-cost issues in a fashion environment.
  • Sensitivity to creative professions and ability to communicate with non-finance teams.
  • Advanced Excel proficiency; knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau and enterprise resource planning systems is an advantage.
  • Rigor, autonomy, analytical thinking, and business-partnering skills.
  • Interpersonal ease and ability to coach and support operational teams.
  • Ability to structure, ensure reliability of, and automate processes in a fast-growing context.
  • Fluent English is essential given the brand's international scope.

Responsibilities

  • Build, monitor, and analyze budgets related to collection development and production, including sourcing, prototyping, and production, in collaboration with Studio and Production teams.
  • Analyze the financial structure of each collection.
  • Contribute to the reliability of product-cost data and monitor associated margins.
  • Monitor budgets for image, communications, media, and special-project activities, including photo shoots, campaigns, events, and collaborations.
  • Implement analytical management control by project and type of service.
  • Monitor media investments and assess their effectiveness with Marketing teams.
  • Challenge spending and support creative teams in making budget decisions.
  • Produce monthly reports, variance analyses, and forecasts, including budget and projected landing.
  • Contribute to implementing and improving management tools, processes, and performance indicators.
  • Participate in monthly closings in collaboration with Accounting.
  • Propose ways to structure and automate management-control tools.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau and enterprise resource planning systems.

About the Company

Sézane

Direct-to-consumer Parisian fashion brand

Sézane is a direct-to-consumer French fashion brand offering women’s and men’s apparel, leather goods, accessories, shoes, and home decor with a Parisian-chic look, built on in-house design and vertically integrated production. It releases new collections monthly in limited quantities to create desire, and unsold items from past lines are sold twice yearly as Archives. About 90% of revenue comes from online sales, with Appartements stores providing intimate, home-like shopping experiences. Its strengths include skipping intermediaries, scarcity-driven drops, a global digital-native presence, immersive physical stores, and a strong sustainability and social mission (B Corp since 2021; eco-friendly materials and the DEMAIN program).

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2013

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