H&M Expansion Sales Controller - Italy

Company Description

The key to building a great look is combining bold pieces.

The key to building a great company is combining different bold people.

We take pride in our history of making fashion accessible to the many, and strive to build a more welcoming, inclusive and sustainable industry. But we also know that you can’t change the world without great people and great teams.

Daily, we are creating with you that special kind of workplace, where unique talents from all over the world come together to form the best of teams, where we foster a culture of creativity, innovation, collaboration and growth.

At H&M, we welcome you to be yourself and challenge you to grow and make a difference.

Help us reimagine the future of an entire industry, making everyone look, feel and do good.

Be proud of where you came from & amazed by where you’ll go.

Be yourself & more at H&M.

We are looking for

As Expansion Sales Controller - Italy

You set and implement controlling routines and strategies for all expansion functions in the sales market.

You perform trend analysis and prognosis for the sales market.

You are responsible for the financial reporting within expansion in the sales market.You are driving risk management in the sales market.

You work with all brands and you support the collaboration in your local Expansion function.

Job Description

Your responsibilities

Strategy

• Set and implement controlling routines and strategies in the sales market.
• Support all local Expansion functions in setting clear strategies and goals.
• Translate regional strategies and set tangible goals and targets for your market.

Trend analysis and prognosis

• Ownership of all relevant market data, securing accuracy and relevance.
• Perform and support key analysis on major KPIs (ROI, rent levels, square meter-selling, net investment, operational costs, etc.).
• You monitor and review sales, surplus, operational costs, and capex for your market.
• Create, utilize and continuously update benchmark data for budgeting and forecasting purposes.
• Prepare ad-hoc analysis and business cases to evaluate current and future business opportunities.
• Make sure that accurate information about the project pipeline and portfolio is available to other local departments and the central support organization (planned number of projects, opening/closure dates, project status, etc.).
• Analyse trends and deviations versus budget/targets and draw conclusions on how to improve the result.

Financial Reporting

• Ownership of all budgets presented for projects and annual budgets for Leasing and C&F.
• Secure monthly, quarterly and annual reporting requirements to local, regional and central function for Capex and Opex.
• Own local budget and forecasting process and data gathering for Leasing and C&F.

Risk Management

• Work according to the general guidelines to ensure routines and drive improvements/actions in processes, methods and tools to minimize business risks.
• Secure the financial transparency on the highest level and that each team member is aware of its responsibilities and approval rights.

Collaboration and Stakeholder management

• You work in close collaboration with the Regional Expansion controlling team and sales market Leasing and C&F functions.
• Support the sales market expansion manager with analysis and business case preparation.
• Support the sales market C&F manager with budgets, forecasts, follow-up and analysis.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Degree in business administration or engineering.
• At least 5 years of relevant working experience.
• Experience form working in auditing, accounting and/or controlling, preferably within the retail sector.
• Experience from preparing and presenting financial reporting to Senior Management and other stakeholders.

Skills

• You have good understanding of accounting and controlling routines, and support systems.
• Advanced level inPower BI, MS Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Teamwork
• Have excellent communication skills, including fluent written and spoken English and Italian. Knowledge in other languages is meriting.
• Have a strategic and analytical mindset with strong planning and prioritizing skills

Additional Information

Additional Info

Location: Milan – Italy

Permanent Contract

Benefit

• Global discount for H&M staff in shops and online (2