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About the Role

Chanel is seeking a Head of Finance IT Domain to partner with global finance leadership, process owners, and technology experts. This role involves building a vision, strategy, and roadmap; ensuring technology feasibility; securing investment for transformation; leading projects; and guaranteeing operational excellence for live solutions within the Finance IT domain. The domain provides technology solutions for finance communities and employees worldwide, covering areas from Accounting to Treasury and Financial Planning to Insurances.

Responsibilities

Be responsible for the global technology strategy and future state architecture supporting Financial Reporting & Accounting, FP&A, Management Reporting & Sustainable Performance, Tax and Insurance, Treasury, Internal Audit & Risk Management, Data Governance, Indirect Procurement, Responsible Supplier Programme, and ERP Programme.
Engage with Global Finance Teams and Global/Regional TECH teams to secure engagement and sponsorship for strategy and roadmap, aligning efforts towards a common outcome.
Build a 3-year roadmap according to strategy, shape business cases, and gain commitment for initiatives to secure necessary investment for transformation.
Architect an interconnected ecosystem within Finance and beyond, allowing for smooth and efficient end-to-end process flows across systems.
Partner closely with CorpFIT Enterprise Architecture to embed robust Architectural governance practices across the Finance IT domain.
Shape and implement future state integration architecture in partnership with CorpFIT Enterprise Architecture and GIT Integration Competency Centre (ICC).
Be responsible for the successful delivery of all projects to time, cost, and scope commitments in line with the agreed roadmap.
Manage forecasts and actuals for all projects within your portfolio, in line with agreed budgets.
Collaborate closely with Architecture, Cyber, Legal, Compliance, and Data Privacy to ensure adherence to best practices.
Ensure that any risks, issues, or deficiencies are appropriately recorded and managed.
Guide the Finance team and your own team by identifying areas where AI can automate and support existing processes.
Refine governance models and collaborate with the Finance innovation team to identify scalable use cases with high impacts.
Ensure robust management of production IT services in line with IT Service Management best practices.
Maximise investment into systems and implement continuous improvement and ongoing evolution services.
Constantly improve services rendered by strategic Application Managed Services providers.
Lead negotiations with software vendors, ensuring maximum value from investments.
Manage the performance and service quality from vendors.
Lead and mentor a team of IT professionals (internal & external) in London and Paris, promoting growth and excellence.
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
Create a sense of team spirit with other teams of the TECH team for Corporate Functions.

Requirements

Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT with at least 3 years in a managing role.
Significant experience in IT roadmap implementation, having built and/or led Finance Solutions for the Business.
In-depth knowledge of Finance technology and processes.
Excellent communication skills, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and organizational skills.
Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, able to work collaboratively, manage conflicts, and challenge in a matrix environment.
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a changing environment.
Passion for user-centricity, leveraging design thinking and agile methodologies.
Strong appetite and curiosity for incubating cutting-edge people technologies.
Energy, enthusiasm, and critical thinking to do things better, simpler, and work across divisions and geographies.
Significant IT Leadership experience with people management expertise and business relationship and delivery responsibilities.
Exceptional project management capabilities.
Strong vendor management skills.
Strong knowledge in Finance technology solutions and Finance processes, especially in accounting, consolidation, management reporting, procurement, planning, tax, and treasury.
A degree in Finance, IT Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent is required.
Solid understanding of IT security and data protection regulations and principles.
Strong financial and business acumen.
English is a must, French or another language is a plus.

Skills

Finance technology
Finance processes
IT roadmap implementation
Project management
Vendor management
Accounting
Consolidation
Management reporting
Procurement
Planning
Tax
Treasury
IT security
Data protection
Design thinking
Agile methodologies
AI
Data governance
Data warehousing
Analytics
ERP

Location

London
Paris

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT
At least 3 years in a managing role

Education Level

Degree in Finance, IT Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent

Benefits

Opportunities for professional growth within a luxury brand landscape.
Access to world-class training programs.

About the Company

Chanel is a federated organisation running divisions and regions all over the globe.
The Finance IT domain provides Technology solutions across for both the Finance community and all employees worldwide, across the different Finance domains from Accounting to Treasury and Financial Planning to Insurances.
Our new Head of Finance IT Domain will partner with the Finance leadership team, process owners and TECH experts to build a vision, strategy and roadmap, ensure technology feasibility, secure investment to effect long term transformation, lead a portfolio of projects and initiatives, and guarantee excellent run operations for live solutions.
Current technology solutions within the Finance portfolio include: Source to Pay: Coupa, Edicom, Concur, Oversight, Reval, Fides; Record to Report: Oracle Financial Consolidation, Oracle Accounts Reconciliation, Oracle Tax Reconciliation and IBM Planning Analytics, PowerPlan; Risk & Control: Origami Risk, AuditBoard, Visiativ Real Estate.
You will be leading a team of experts in London covering these domains and technologies, as well as a team in Paris supporting specifically the Corporate Finance teams over there.
With our ERP being the crossroads of all processes, you and your teams partner closely with the D365 Solution Center part of the same TECH organization, complemented by transversal teams for Intelligent Automation, Data Analytics and Enterprise Architecture serving the Finance domain and all other Corporate functions.
Key Finance challenges for the years ahead include: Harmonizing processes through a global ERP; Re-design the Financial Planning Processes and embed Sustainability Reporting in the process; Increase maturity in data governance and data warehousing across the organization to fuel analytics and AI; Strengthen fraud detection and policy control across the organisation; Revamp treasury processes and solutions.
Be exposed to various business divisions and geographies.
Structure your thoughts and experiences to deliver pragmatic and business-adapted solutions.
Build, develop and maintain close relationship with Chanel Global & Regional & Divisional Leaders.
A rewarding opportunity to build a best-in-class ecosystem of technologies.
An inclusive and collaborative work environment.

Equal Opportunity

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to Chanel.