Christian Dior Chief Financial Officer France

About Christian Dior

Christian Dior, founded in Paris in 1946, stands as one of the world’s most influential maisons, uniting haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, fragrance, beauty, and exceptional retail experiences. As an employer, Dior offers a culture shaped by artistic audacity, meticulous craftsmanship, and the pursuit of excellence, where heritage and innovation continually enrich one another. Its teams collaborate across ateliers, studios, boutiques, and corporate functions within an international environment that values elegance, precision, inclusivity, and entrepreneurial spirit. Working at Dior means contributing to a legacy of timeless style while helping define the future of luxury with creativity, discipline, and purpose.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define and deploy France's financial strategy aligned with central direction and business priorities, piloting budget, forecast, quarterly closes, and medium-term planning processes
• Guarantee reliability, relevance, and clarity of financial analyses and performance indicators; rigorously monitor P&L, cash, costs, margins, and key value drivers
• Partner with the management committee to guide growth, profitability, investments, and strategic trade-offs
• Position as a privileged partner to operational and functional leadership on all performance issues; challenge business assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and formulate actionable recommendations
• Support structural decisions related to commercial development, investments, innovation, and operating model evolution across both Wholesale and Retail channels
• Drive transformation roadmap for the finance function at France level; accelerate digitalization of financial activities and evolution of reporting, planning, and control tools
• Identify and implement process optimization, automation, and simplification initiatives; build team capability in evolving professional practices
• Oversee accounting, internal control, cash management, and management control functions; ensure quality of financial closes and data reliability
• Serve as key liaison for internal and external stakeholders on France-market financial matters
• Lead and challenge Sales Administration processes and KPIs including inventory tracking, placement, stock-outs, and shelf-presence rates
• Lead, motivate, and develop a 20-person team distributed between multiple sites; provide clear direction and foster high engagement and cross-functional collaboration
• Promote proximity-based, demanding yet supportive management that encourages teamwork and operational excellence

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years in senior-level finance roles, ideally in complex, demanding, multi-business environments
• Proven experience managing significant teams and leading organizations across multiple sites
• Solid track record in finance transformation, digitalization, continuous improvement, and process/tool optimization
• Strong command of both strategic thinking and hands-on operational execution
• Excellent understanding of business issues and strong results orientation
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, high-expectation environment with significant stakeholder interaction
• Natural leadership, credibility, influence, and demonstrated ability to engage diverse stakeholders
• Team orientation, pragmatism, rigor, agility, and clear prioritization skills
• Fluent in French and English with excellent communication abilities

Skills

Experience

Minimum 15 years in senior financial positions within complex, demanding, multi-business environments. Confirmed experience managing significant teams and directing multi-site organizations. Solid expertise in finance transformation, digitalization, continuous improvement, and process and tool optimization.

Education

Advanced degree in finance, management, auditing, accounting, or business school diploma.

Workplace

Culture

Christian Dior fosters a culture of refined creativity, exceptional craftsmanship, and continuous innovation, where teams are encouraged to uphold the Maison’s heritage while shaping the future of luxury. As an employer, it offers a dynamic and exacting environment that values collaboration, excellence, and the development of talent across artistic, retail, and corporate disciplines.

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