Kering Inventory Control Assistant

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.

Role & Responsibilities

• Ensure the existence, completeness and accurate valuation of inventory for Kering Group brands; implement, improve and execute processes and internal controls that safeguard inventory and support accurate reporting in the Group financial statements.
• Monitor transactions affecting inventory, including goods receipts, sales, transfers, ad hoc transactions, adjustments, price changes and transfer price updates.
• Contribute to inventory-control improvements, including formalizing month-end close and system internal-control activities, rolling out SAP in Korea and supporting other Finance Transformation Project initiatives.
• Support continuous accounting by monitoring daily transactions, such as intercompany receipts, special transactions and adjustments, and maintaining synchronization between inventory and accounting modules and systems.
• Improve month-end closing toward a fast close through timely closing activities and system certifications.
• Perform and document system-based internal controls over inventory, safeguard assets and oversee physical stocktakes.
• Monitor and review transactions for continuous accounting, including daily receiving reconciliations against intercompany statements, internal employee sales registration and monitoring, and identification of synchronized inventory transaction data across systems such as POS, JDA and reporting tools.
• Evaluate and analyze inventory issues, monitor store errors such as STS errors, establish and follow up on action plans with brand teams, and issue periodic evaluation reports to brand headquarters and local teams.
• Follow monthly closing procedures for inventory transactions and valuation; manage non-merchandise prepayments and expenses; certify tasks in the system; and provide monthly closing information to the finance team on time for reporting.
• Safeguard assets by reporting shrinkage analysis twice a year, conducting physical stocktakes at stores and warehouses for merchandise and non-merchandise, maintaining system compliance and internal controls, and generating, justifying, substantiating and promptly reviewing inventory-control transactions.
• Manage logistics and customs clearance for intercompany shipments, including reviewing import and export shipping documents and coordinating delivery to the requested time and location.
• Communicate closely with internal stakeholders, including brand headquarters, regional and local teams, and stores, as well as external parties such as forwarders, customs agencies and audit firms.
• Support relevant certification and administrative work, and develop and propose more efficient logistics processes to brands.
• Document processes in the system, train others and update systems to support understanding of retail operations and finance.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Participate in and lead inventory-control issues within current projects; other tasks may also be assigned, and duties may change.
• Monitor and report store performance KPIs for inventory control to brand management and store operations, and design and implement collaborative remediation action plans.
• Contribute to the APAC Finance SSC organization's progress toward ISO certification for quality and controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 1–3 years of retail business experience; inventory control experience is preferred.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications, especially Excel.
• Native Korean speaker with fluent written and spoken English.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.
• Self-motivated and willing to support teamwork.
• Basic understanding of retail business, accounting and overall logistics flows.
• Strong analytical and logical skills.
• Ability to multitask and remain patient in a demanding work environment.
• Hands-on mentality.
• Proactive attitude.

Skills

Experience

1–3 years of retail business experience; inventory control experience is preferred.

Education

Bachelor's degree.

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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