RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Finance Director will be responsible for overseeing the financial operations of the company, guiding its financial strategy, planning, and maintaining its compliance and fiscal stability. He/she will collaborate with the executive management team to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies.
Strong link with Commercial and Operations departments, seeking strategies to leverage cost and productivity processes.
SCOPE OF WORK:
Teams:
Accounting and Tax Department
AP / AR / Treasury
Business Controlling
IT
- FINANCE:
Accounting and Tax:
- Team management: 1 Accounting Manager in charge of accounting and tax activities supported by an external service provider.
- General Accounting: Review and control GL, trial balances and reconciliations
- Tax: Ensure fulfillment of all tax obligations including transfer pricing.
- Reporting: Ensure consistency and accuracy of actual data reporting (sales weekly and monthly report, quarterly and annual closings).
- Coordinate external financial audits.
Treasury
- Team management: 1 Coordinator + 1 Senior Analyst + 1 Intern
- AR: certify compliance of incoming resources and control reconciliations of sales and payments.
- AP: guarantee internal controls are in place for purchase-to pay process.
- Cash / Funds Management
- Treasury Reporting and Cash Analysis
- Relationship with Banking and Cash Institutions and Acquirers
- Financial Cost Optimization
- Administration of Treasury Tools and Payment Means (back-office and stores)
- Compliance and Internal Procedures for Treasury
Business Controlling
- Team management: 1 Business Controlling Coordinator
- Oversee financial strength of the company through tools and KPIs implementation
- Sales follow-up and re-estimate: partner with Commercial Director on business analysis providing local business plan insights & assumptions
- Provide insights to anticipate Risks & Opps to Region P&L and provide recommendations to Regional CFO and General Manager to ensure target achievements.
- Support definition of budget targets and requirements
- Cost control: follow-up of all company expenditures (variable costs, overheads, communication expenses, etc…).
- Margin optimization: COGS control, price and product mix management.
- Stock management control through stock equation, stock depreciation, stock-take result analysis, etc…
- Capex follow-up
- Annual budget, estimates and 3-year strategic plan
- COMPLIANCE, RISK AND LEGAL MANAGEMENT:
Legal
- Main point of contact for legal matters
- Coordination of legal cases and processes with legal firms and lawyers
- Board of Director’s meeting and other legal requirements in coordination with HQ legal department
- Monthly legal issues report and revisions to General Manager
- Supplier contracts’ management in coordination with lawyers and HQ legal department
- Insurance Management
Insurance Management
Internal Controls - work closely with the Latam Internal Control Manager to:
- Ensure that Hermès procedures are enforced in accordance with Brazilian local regulation
- Develop local procedures
- Map risks and propose corresponding action plans
- Major actor in the tenue of internal audits
- IT
- Team Management: 1 IT Manager in charge of the below-listed activities
- Supervise daily operations of network and server infrastructure
- Align IT infrastructure with current and future business requirements and goal
- Evaluate risk, developing network recovery and backup processes
- Assess and purchase new and replacement hardware
- Adjust information systems to operate effectively Implementing security of the network, data and its storage and communication systems
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Business and decision-making partner in strategic projects such as:
- New store opening, expansion or renovation
- Company organization: change of team scope, internalization versus externalization
- Participate in change of operations business model. Ex: central warehouse, importation strategy, e-commerce or retail new projects
- Network Best Practices: Improve and optimize business operations by applying internal and external learnings.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education: University Degree in Accounting or Finance
Technical Skills:
- At least 10 years’ experience in an organized accounting / finance department, within multinational environment (Multinational Group reporting in IFRS)
- Strong knowledge of Brazilian Chart of Accounts, Fiscal and administrative processes in Brazil
- Excellent Excel skills
- Good knowledge of IFRS standards
- Experience with financial planning and scenario analysis is needed.
- Languages: Fluent in Portuguese and English (both written and oral), French is a plus.
Personality profile:
- Strong analytical capabilities and organizational skills
- Strong personal values: transparency, honesty and discretion, ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
- Demonstrated capability to be hands-on
- Excellent interpersonal skills, exceptional communication skills (story telling) evidenced by good verbal/written presentation ability
- Strong collaboration skills and particular strength in ‘connecting the dots’ across multiple topics, data sets, etc.
- Ability to adapt fast, work independently, autonomously
- Flexible working under pressure and ability to meet deadlines
Criadora, artesã e vendedora de objetos de alta qualidade desde 1837, a Hermès é uma empresa de luxo francesa, familiar e independente que conta com mais de 20.000 funcionários pelo mundo afora. Impulsionada por seu espírito de empreender em permanência e sua exigência constante, a Hermès cultiva a liberdade e a autonomia de cada pessoa por meio de uma gestão responsável. A maison perpetua a transmissão de um know-how excepcional, concretizada por uma forte ancoragem territorial que respeita os seres humanos e a natureza. 16 ofícios artesanais nutrem a criatividade da casa, cujas coleções são destacadas em mais de 300 lojas no mundo inteiro.