- Location
- Paris Île-de-France France
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Department
- Finance, Accounting & Revenue Management
- Industry
- Fashion, Apparel & Leather Goods
- Posted
- Oct 23, 2026
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.
Christian Dior Couture is seeking a Senior Management Controller, G&A and Central Costs, reporting to the Corporate Management Control Manager within Finance. This permanent, full-time role in Paris oversees financial monitoring across head-office functions, monthly closing, budgets and forecasts, management tools, G&A reporting and non-retail capital expenditure.
Role & Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on management control support to central and head-office functions, helping teams manage budgets, commitments and expenditure.
- Produce reports and analyse variances across Finance, Human Resources, Legal, General Management, Supply Chain, Retail Performance, Data & Transformation, Dior Academy, Sustainability and Architecture.
- Participate in monthly closing for G&A, central costs and head-office selling; verify the correct accounting of OPEX and CAPEX; record provisions (FNP, CCA) and inventory entries.
- Check accounting consistency, safeguard data quality and produce related closing analyses.
- Support operational teams with purchase flows, including Coupa order processing, purchase-order tracking and receipt of purchase orders; monitor approval workflows and ensure accurate accounting treatment of committed expenses.
- Prepare budgets and forecasts for the entire head-office scope.
- Design and distribute templates, coordinate the collection and consolidation of business assumptions, and challenge the data to ensure alignment with financial trajectories in coordination with IT, SGX and Architecture.
- Administer and check budget data in Anaplan; maintain historical archives and version tracking.
- Load and check payroll costs for head-office cost centres, update allocation keys and distribute the related files.
- Contribute to consolidated G&A expense reporting; analyse costs, identify variances and prepare presentation materials, readouts and summaries for Finance leadership and operational teams.
- Manage financial tracking of non-retail investments across head office, IT and industrial operations; consolidate CAPEX data, map projects, track CRA and CRB reporting, coordinate industrial submissions and prepare related materials.
- Improve corporate management-control processes, reporting practices and budget tracking, and propose enhancements to tools, working files and coordination with operational teams.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of confirmed experience in management control, ideally in a corporate, retail or multi-entity environment.
- Higher education in finance or management, or a business school qualification.
- Good command of closing mechanisms, provisions, budget monitoring and reporting.
- Advanced Excel proficiency and ease with management and consolidation tools, particularly Anaplan, SyRUS and Coupa.
- Ability to work across a broad scope, with numerous stakeholders and demanding recurring cycles.
- Rigour, strong organisational skills, reliability, autonomy and team spirit.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to act as a partner to operational teams.
Skills
Experience
Minimum 5 years
Education
Higher education in finance or management, or a business school qualification.
Workplace
This position is based in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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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.
About Cerulean
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