KERING Head of Finance Transformation - GREATER CHINA

Job description

About Kering Kering is a global, family-led luxury group, home to people whose passion and expertise nurture creative Houses across ready-to-wear and couture, leather goods, jewelry, eyewear and beauty: Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, DoDo, Qeelin, Ginori 1735, as well as Kering Eyewear and Kering Beauté. Inspired by their creative heritage, Kering’s Houses design and craft exceptional products and experiences that reflect the Group’s commitment to excellence, sustainability and culture. This vision is expressed in our signature: Creativity is our Legacy. In 2024, Kering employed 47,000 people and generated revenue of €17.2 billion. Your opportunity Reporting to Global Head – Finance Transformation How you will contribute The Finance Transformation project, initiated in 2019, aims to enhance finance processes and organizations by leveraging a core model that includes SAP and other applications like SAP-Concur and Esker. Geographies of Greater China includes HK/MO (live in SAP since 2021), TW (live in SAP since 2025) and CN (go live planned for 2026)

Who you are?

Macro Objectives:

·  Deliver finance transformation core model in Greater China by assessing local business processes and defining architecture with core applications.
·  Promote the use of core solutions to replace legacy systems and ensure compliance with localization constraints.
·  Document and share business processes and drive the deployment of Kering Finance Academy to support process adoption.
·  Prepare for data migration from legacy applications to SAP FMS and deploy the full solution landscape.
·  Implement and support target finance macro-processes and drive organizational change within China Mainland FSSC and Corporate organization.
·  Anticipate the implementation of SAP S/4 Hana, addressing gaps between S/4 and FMS in business processes and data management.
·  Anticipate the decommissioning of JDA and the implementation of retail back-office

Sub-Objectives:

·  Manage SAP FMS implementation, ensuring the global Finance Transformation methodology is applied.
·  Promote Insight (Power BI) dashboards & SAP-AFO as the main sources of analytics for stakeholders.
·  Foster the use of controlling tools in SAP, and adapt to brands owns organization across Greater China geographies (CN/TW/HK/MO)
·  Coordinate localization of adoption tools and support progress towards Fast Close & Continuous Accounting

Teamwork Objectives:

·  Establish a support structure for key-user support in Brands & SSCs, ensure continuous enhancements and implement KPIs to help monitor process performance.
·  Recruit, train, and develop resources to maintain the transformation capabilities.
·  Lead a team of 2 and external consultants
·  Collaborate with regional FP&A lead, local / regional heads of SSCs & Corporate, Greater China brand finance teams, regional/global brand CFOs, internal control teams, and KerTech / SAP CoE teams.

·  Full time
·  Asie
·  Mainland China