LVMH - Financial Controller SDL

Job description

Company : Louis Vuitton North America
Business group : Fashion & Leather Goods
This position serves as the Finance business partner and Financial Controller for our SDL after sales center and warehouse, which is part of Louis Vuitton Americas but is a separate entity requiring full financial controls. We are looking for a strong financial profile who can also work as a business parter and member of the management team.
This position is a great opportunity to lead the Finance function for an entity with the structure and support of a larger team and organization, and requires both high-level business strategy as well as the ability to roll up your sleeves and dive into the details.

Desired profile

Experience required : Minimum 5 years
At SDL, be the financial business partner for logistics, supply chain, repair center and inventory control teams:
- Help warehouse teams in monitoring closely their operations,
- Provide financial guidelines and data to the repairs & after sales teams,
- Maintain a mindset of zero tolerance policy on operations for central and regional warehouses, including securing inbound and outbound flows by inforcing strict rules,
- Develop partnership at the top management level to ensure a solid company focus on financial controlling.
Monitor SDL’s repair center’s performance, similar to the standards of a small factory:
- Implement an all comprehensive budget process for the cost center,
- Keep track of industrial KPIs such as efficiency and service rate,
- Monitor internal transfer pricing structure including hourly rate calculation,
- Approve all expenditure and purchase orders (Opex and capex),
- Closely monitor payroll costs of around 60 employees in coordination with Human Resources,
- Monitor broker and freight costs (Temporary Import Bonds and spare part imports),
- Provide monthly analyses on global North American repair actvity including the retail side,
Monitor SDL wholesale’s performance for US manufactured products:
- Partner with the San Dimas production facility and finance team for yearly transfer prices,
- Provide monthly margin reviews to LVNA management,
- Calculate stock levels and stock coverage on US made items,
- Help with warehouse capacity monitoring.
Generate & maintain monthly monitoring P&Ls and financial KPIs for both SDL activities,
- Code invoices and provide guidelines to the Louis Vuitton Americas accounting team, located in NYC.
- Review and approve payment groups and deal with supplier issues,
- Assess SDL’s financial control weaknesses and implement solutions to resolve them,
- Monthly report SDL’s activity to Central Paris teams and regional New York teams.
- Provide SDL financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash flow forecast) production and analysis
- Report forecast into the group reporting system (Syrus) and coordinate with New York Corporate finance on actual statements controls.
Monitor the Louis Vuitton Americas warehouse costs & budgets.
- Prepare and issue monthly KPIs reports with appropriate analysis,
- Identify potential issues and non compliance with service agreements,
- This report should give an overall vision on both regional warehouse operations,
- To be presented to top management regularly.
Organize, coordinate and supervise physical inventories and cycle counts in the Distribution Centers in partneship with Inventory Control.
Controlling of full warehouse, logistics and supply chain budgets for Louis Vuitton Americas in partnership with the teams in New York: budget construction, monthly review, challenge costs and processes.