Senior Business Controller

In a context of transformation, Polène is currently looking for a Senior Business Controller to oversee the group's OPEX management (12 entities), define and deploy the cost management policy, while ensuring the reliability of financial data needed for decision-making.

You will thrive in this role if you want to:

• Support department heads (Image, Branding, PR, Design, Collection, Finance, Legal, HR, General Services) in defining and structuring their annual budget and budget revisions.

• Analyze variances between budget, commitments, and actuals, and prepare monthly cost-tracking reports for management and department heads.

• Coordinate monthly OPEX closing steps with the accounting team, check accounting/analytical allocations, challenge provisions, and roll out expense allocation guidelines.

• Act as a Business Partner to analyze the profitability of new projects, identify cost optimization levers, and define tailored OPEX KPIs.

• Serve as the OPEX Controlling subject matter expert within the financial transformation on SAP S/4HANA (maintaining processes, configuring reports, defining cost allocation strategies, and supporting operational teams on SAP and ESKER).

• Provide daily support to teams to improve data reliability, secure OPEX flows, and enhance practices.

You will excel in this role if:

• You have at least 7 years of post-graduate experience in a similar role within audit or financial controlling.

• You have a thorough command of budget management principles and analytical accounting.

• You are proficient in Excel and an ERP (ideally SAP). Knowledge of BI or EPM reporting tools is a plus.

• You have professional fluency in English.

• You combine rigor, strong analytical and synthesis skills, and a solid business partner mindset with the ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.

• You have a proven ability to structure and implement financial processes and projects.

Within the Controlling team made up of 7 people (covering industrial, financial, and OPEX controlling), you will report directly to our Senior Controlling Lead. You will work closely with the accounting team, department heads (Head of level), and operational teams.

The team operates with a strong culture of cross-functional support, continuous optimization, and tool transformation. You will be at the heart of Polène’s strategic and budgetary choices, playing a key role as a structurer and facilitator.

The Recruitment Process

1. Meeting with Talent Acquisition: discover the Maison, our values, and share your background and ambitions.

2. Interview with your future manager: dive into the role, its responsibilities and the challenges facing the Collection team.

3. Case study: work through a practical case and share your thinking and approach to controlling.

4. Final interview with our Secretary General: take a step back and explore the Maison's vision and your development opportunities at Polène.

By joining Polène, you will have the opportunity to:

• Join a Maison with a unique business project and an ambitious development plan covering its entire value chain.

• Grow in an ever-evolving environment where innovation and the pursuit of excellence are key drivers.

• Thrive in an environment where people are at the heart of the project, and where the attention given to employees is a true differentiating factor.

Joining Polène also means benefiting from a range of initiatives designed with you in mind:

• A 100% on-site working experience, based in our Paris offices in the heart of the 2nd arrondissement, on rue du Louvre.

• 25 days of paid annual leave + 10.5 RTT days.

• A ClassPass sport and wellness membership.

• Exclusive access to the Maison's collections (private sales and preferential rates after one year of service).

• Access to People and Baby and Les Petits Chaperons Rouges daycare networks.

• Alan health insurance, with a tailor-made plan reserved for Maison employees and 60% employer contribution.

• A sustainable mobility allowance of up to €40/month, or 50% reimbursement of public transportation costs.

• Swile meal vouchers with a face value of €10 per day.

What you may not know yet about Polène:

Born in Paris in 2016, crafted in Ubrique and open to the world, Polène is much more than a leather goods Maison: it is a culture, a way of being and a way of creating. Each of our creations reflects the meeting point between technical precision and the poetry of form.

Today, Polène brings together 1,500 employees, including 900 exceptional artisans based in Ubrique, Spain, and operates across 3 continents, with an expansion plan targeting 7 new openings per year.

Polène is committed to an inclusive, ethical and equitable culture throughout its recruitment processes. We welcome you as you are, with your talents, your energy and your desire to contribute.