HR Controlling Senior Manager

HR Controlling Senior Manager

Working closely with regional and local cost planning team, finance controllers and HR business partners to analyze headcounts & associated people costs. The HR Controlling Senior Manager takes responsibility for all monthly HR reporting, personnel and forecast planning, and monthly variance analysis.

You will have the opportunity to act as our strategic business partner in collaboration with our Maison HR teams and ensuring excellent quality of FTE management and associated costs analysis, assumption and planning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated expertise in personnel budget, planning and Process setting as an integrated operational strategy for an organization
• Work in conjunction with Maison HR teams to ensure a good quality of FTE management and associated costs analysis, assumption and planning.
• Point of contact for management team concerning all personnel expenses and personnel budget  related matters.
• Manage overall budget and forecast process, planning schedule, and regular monthly variance analysis.
• Provide critical assessment of all headcount budgets and people cost projections
• Remain acutely aware of organizational trends that could impact resource costs
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the interdependency of cost drivers
• Develop and recommend potential cost-efficiency ideas/suggestions to HR teams
• Partner with Finance teams to improve and streamline HR costing planning processes and tools
• Define monthly and/or quarterly controlling KPI’s and ensure close monitoring through a dashboard to identify risks and opportunities and actively contribute to the corresponding action plans to drive performance.
• Provide guidance, training and support to the HR team across the region on the staff costs matters (reporting, analysis, etc.).
• Participate in cross-functional workgroups driving solutions that impact employee compensation and benefit opportunities including, cost-saving initiatives, audit findings, system development, effective and efficient best practices, processes that are consistent across Maisons, continuous improvement, integration, and implementation

Qualifications: 

• Degree holder in Accounting / Finance or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in cost control & planning at sizeable companies
• Good understanding of HR functions can be an advantage
• Strong presentation skills, able to explain concepts concisely and accurately.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Exceptionally well-organized with an aptitude for data; strong data analytical skills, including advanced knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Self-motivated with a strong growth mindset and learning agility
• Ability to prioritize work, solve problems independently and proactively; ensure all targets are met under pressurized environment

Work Environment & Culture

Richemont is offering you a great opportunity to work in a reputable and professional leading Company in the Luxury Industry.

Become a part of a Creative, Ambitious & Diverse team, and take your decisive step towards your career development within our organization.

Richemont is a Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company founded in 1988 by South African businessman Johann Rupert. It is a family-spirited Group, enabling its Maisons and businesses to grow while staying true to their heritage and owns several of the world’s leading companies in the field of luxury goods, with particular strengths in jewelry, luxury watches and writing instruments.

At Richemont, our true power does not lie in our similarities but in the rich diversity of our arts, cultures, and human skills, as well as our specific ability to foster untapped potential.

Quite simply, at Richemont you have the potential to be much more than your job title!