Management Control Manager

About the job

Title: Management Control Manager M/F

Job scope and context:

Maroquinerie Thierry is one of the sites dedicated to the artisanal manufacture of Hermès leather goods, currently employing more than 160 people, including around 140 artisans.

Fully integrated within the House in 2022, this site specialising in belts and small leather goods is at the heart of Hermès Leather Goods Saddlery's manufacturing strategy through the growth of its production capacity, maintaining craftsmanship at the highest level, relying on an excellent training pathway that welcomes all future artisans of its workshops.

General mission

In close collaboration with the Leather Goods Director and her management team, the Management Control Manager is the key link for steering and decision-making in the following areas: budget preparation and monitoring, production management control and financial monitoring (stock, investments, workforce).

They participate in the reliability and analysis of financial and management data to enable real-time activity management, propose and implement monitoring and control tools, and ensure budget construction based on reliable information. They must have a taste for the field, be proactive in defining with operational teams the priority work areas and actions to improve financial profitability.

Reporting lines

The Management Control Manager reports hierarchically to the site director and functionally to the HMS Manufacturing Management Control Director.

Main activities

360° performance management

Budget and Financial Reporting

Prepare the budget, revise it (three times a year) and evaluate 3-year forecasts (once a year).

In this respect:

• Build matrices for operational managers to collect their forecasts

• Challenge operational managers on their forecasts (delivered hours, training hours, productivity rate, new products, absenteeism).

• Build a P&L as well as operational cash flows (investments and working capital requirement)

• Analyse variances, propose corrective actions

• Report data in the group consolidation tool (Magnitude)

• Prepare and distribute summary notes on the different phases for the site Management Committee and HMS.

• Prepare materials and presentations for budget meetings and capacity feedback.

Financial Closures

• Participate in quarterly closures: supplier cut-off, stock valuation (net book value and provisions), investment monitoring, P&L account control, reconciliation of management margin / accounting margin and P&L analysis (vs previous year and budget)

• Write the summary note at each closure

• Stocks: distribute inventory procedures, participate in pre-inventory briefing, control physical inventories, monitor and analyse variances and share conclusions with the Production Director and HMS financial management.

• Coordinate and consolidate quarterly accounting closures in functional liaison with central finance and accounting teams.

• Analyse and comment on financial results, particularly in relation to budget commitments downstream, and ensure follow-up of action plans if necessary

• The role requires managing different work rhythms with:

• Continuous and cross-functional monitoring (activity analysis, industrial cost price...)

• Periodic tasks (reporting, closures, budget)

• Ad hoc studies (product line profitability, cost variation impact...)

Industrial Management Control

• Understand manufacturing processes

• Work with the site director and management team to prepare and summarise data necessary to determine production capacities (workforce, machines)

• Build and monitor standard and actual cost prices by product line

• Analyse variances (actual/standard) at each closure

• Conduct any necessary studies concerning costs, margin, break-even points by product lines

• Monitor production indicators: update, analyse, animate indicators, optimise and rationalise on Excel

• Measure productivity: implement periodic monitoring

• Create and comment on weekly and monthly dashboards for activity and cost management

• Monitor workforce (registered, present, productive) in connection with Payroll and HR services

• Monthly delivery performance by activity (Table, Cutting and After-Sales Service)

• Analyse and monitor productivity ratios based on site hours analysis

• Lead the Monthly Performance Steering Committee

• Present results to the Works Council

Investment Management

• Validate commitments, assist operational teams in drafting investment requests, analyse actual data vs budget.

• Consolidate, challenge and present site investments.

• Monitor commitments and analyse actuals.

Candidate profile

Education level Bac+5 (business school or similar training) oriented towards finance or management control

3 to 5 years of experience in a similar position within an industrial company, ideally in manufacturing production.

Required skills:

• Pedagogical

• Reliability and relevance of the information produced,

• Rigor, precision and result-oriented

• Proactive and critical thinking

• Strong sensitivity to human and social issues

• Interpersonal and managerial qualities

• Humility and taste for the field and operational work