Kering Finance Transformation Intern

About Kering

Kering is a global luxury group renowned for nurturing some of the world’s most influential Houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry, and eyewear, including Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, and Boucheron. As an employer, Kering offers a distinctive environment where creative excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, and long-term sustainability converge. The Group empowers its talents to shape the future of luxury through innovation, craftsmanship, and responsible business practices. With an international culture grounded in diversity, inclusion, and shared ambition, Kering provides meaningful career opportunities for professionals seeking to contribute to exceptional brands while advancing a more sustainable and imaginative luxury industry.

Kering is recruiting a Finance Transformation Intern for a six-month internship beginning in January 2027, supporting its international P2P Excellence & Efficiency programme. The role covers project coordination, performance and data analysis, Category Management, process digitalisation, change management and executive reporting across the Group’s Maisons and regions.

Role & Responsibilities

• Contribute to structuring and coordinating the P2P Excellence roadmap and its workstreams.
• Prepare steering committees, governance meetings and workshops.
• Consolidate roadmaps, initiatives and action plans across Maisons and regions.
• Track key decisions, risks, dependencies and project progress.
• Monitor and analyse P2P performance indicators, including PO coverage, automated processing rates, invoice processing times, payment terms and on-time payment.
• Benchmark performance across Maisons, regions and processes.
• Analyse purchasing, supplier and invoice data to identify opportunities for improvement, consolidation and value creation.
• Help strengthen master data quality and reporting reliability.
• Support activation of priority purchasing categories and related Category Management workshops.
• Contribute to spend and supplier analyses, supplier-panel rationalisation initiatives and identification of Group-wide opportunities.
• Support deployment of the Vendor Search Tool and adoption of Vendor Discipline principles.
• Identify opportunities to harmonise suppliers, purchasing practices and payment terms across Maisons and regions.
• Contribute to deployment of P2P solutions, including e-invoicing, punch-outs, internal catalogues and other automation initiatives.
• Participate in operational diagnostics and identify high-impact actions.
• Help design and document target processes, standards and best practices.
• Explore opportunities in data, automation and artificial intelligence to improve process efficiency, analysis and decision-making.
• Collaborate with Finance, Purchasing, Retail Operations, Master Data and Shared Services teams across EMEA, the Americas and APAC.
• Contribute to the P2P adoption roadmap through training, communications and stakeholder support.
• Participate in regional and local workshops and track implementation actions.
• Develop communications and training materials tailored to user audiences and purchasing use cases.
• Structure project deliverables and prepare high-quality presentations and management summaries.
• Turn complex analyses into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Track actions, milestones, risks, dependencies and decisions.
• Ensure coherence across P2P Excellence workstreams and contribute to management reporting.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Master's degree at a business school, engineering school or university, ideally specialising in Finance, Data, Purchasing, Audit or Management.
• A first experience in Finance, Audit, Consulting, Purchasing or Transformation would be appreciated.
• Strong interest in Finance transformation, P2P processes, process optimisation, data and digitalisation.
• Fluent French and English, both written and spoken; Italian is an advantage.
• Excellent command of Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of SAP or Finance/Purchasing tools is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills, rigour and ability to synthesise information.
• Comfortable with both quantitative analysis and project management topics.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an interest in international environments.
• Curiosity, proactivity and a strong willingness to learn, with a genuine interest in understanding end-to-end processes rather than working on isolated topics.

Skills

Experience

A first experience in Finance, Audit, Consulting, Purchasing or Transformation would be appreciated.

Education

Currently pursuing a Master's degree at a business school, engineering school or university, ideally specialising in Finance, Data, Purchasing, Audit or Management.

Workplace

Culture

Kering fosters a dynamic, purpose-driven culture where creativity, entrepreneurship, and collaboration support the distinct identities of its luxury Houses. As an employer, the Group places strong emphasis on sustainability, diversity, and talent development, encouraging people to innovate responsibly while contributing to the future of modern luxury.

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