--- title: "Senior Business Controller" company: "Polène Paris" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/pol-ne-paris" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/pol-ne-paris-senior-business-controller-ba06e0d8-3a21-4797-9ff9-93e9ccaee003" apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polene-paris/6b390747-0c7c-4a9c-aeca-9c3d96694919" workplace: onsite location: "Paris - HQ" employment_type: full-time seniority: senior role: finance-legal region: europe skills: ["sap"] date_posted: 2026-09-08T07:37:00.063Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T19:04:47.817Z --- # Senior Business Controller **Polène Paris** · Paris - HQ Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polene-paris/6b390747-0c7c-4a9c-aeca-9c3d96694919 ## About Polène Paris Polène est une maison de maroquinerie parisienne créée en 2016. Découvrez les sacs et les petites maroquineries aux lignes épurées et au design organique. ## About the role In a context of transformation, Polène is currently looking for a ***Senior Business Controller*** to **oversee the group's OPEX management (12 entities)**, define and deploy the cost management policy, while ensuring the reliability of financial data needed for decision-making. **$2** - Support department heads (Image, Branding, PR, Design, Collection, Finance, Legal, HR, General Services) in defining and structuring their annual budget and budget revisions. - Analyze variances between budget, commitments, and actuals, and prepare monthly cost-tracking reports for management and department heads. - Coordinate monthly OPEX closing steps with the accounting team, check accounting/analytical allocations, challenge provisions, and roll out expense allocation guidelines. - Act as a Business Partner to analyze the profitability of new projects, identify cost optimization levers, and define tailored OPEX KPIs. - Serve as the OPEX Controlling subject matter expert within the financial transformation on SAP S/4HANA (maintaining processes, configuring reports, defining cost allocation strategies, and supporting operational teams on SAP and ESKER). - Provide daily support to teams to improve data reliability, secure OPEX flows, and enhance practices.**$2** - You have at least 7 years of post-graduate experience in a similar role within audit or financial controlling. - You have a thorough command of budget management principles and analytical accounting. - You are proficient in Excel and an ERP (ideally SAP). Knowledge of BI or EPM reporting tools is a plus. - You have professional fluency in English. - You combine rigor, strong analytical and synthesis skills, and a solid business partner mindset with the ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders. - You have a proven ability to structure and implement financial processes and projects.Within the **Controlling team made up of 7 people** (covering industrial, financial, and OPEX controlling), you will report directly to our ***Senior Controlling Lead***. You will work closely with the accounting team, department heads (Head of level), and operational teams. The team operates with a strong culture of cross-functional support, continuous optimization, and tool transformation. You will be at the heart of Polène’s strategic and budgetary choices, playing a key role as a structurer and facilitator. **$2** 1. Meeting with Talent Acquisition: discover the Maison, our values, and share your background and ambitions. 2. Interview with your future manager: dive into the role, its responsibilities and the challenges facing the Collection team. 3. Case study: work through a practical case and share your thinking and approach to controlling. 4. Final interview with our Secretary General: take a step back and explore the Maison's vision and your development opportunities at Polène. **$2** - Join a Maison with a unique business project and an ambitious development plan covering its entire value chain. - Grow in an ever-evolving environment where innovation and the pursuit of excellence are key drivers. - Thrive in an environment where people are at the heart of the project, and where the attention given to employees is a true differentiating factor. ##### Joining Polène also means benefiting from a range of initiatives designed with you in mind: - A 100% on-site working experience, based in our Paris offices in the heart of the 2nd arrondissement, on rue du Louvre. - 25 days of paid annual leave + 10.5 RTT days. - A ClassPass sport and wellness membership. - Exclusive access to the Maison's collections (private sales and preferential rates after one year of service). - Access to People and Baby and Les Petits Chaperons Rouges daycare networks. - Alan health insurance, with a tailor-made plan reserved for Maison employees and 60% employer contribution. - A sustainable mobility allowance of up to €40/month, or 50% reimbursement of public transportation costs. - Swile meal vouchers with a face value of €10 per day.**$2** Born in Paris in 2016, crafted in Ubrique and open to the world, Polène is much more than a leather goods Maison: it is a culture, a way of being and a way of creating. Each of our creations reflects the meeting point between technical precision and the poetry of form. Today, Polène brings together **1,500 employees**, including **900 exceptional artisans based in Ubrique, Spain**, and operates across **3 continents**, with an expansion plan targeting **7 new openings per year**. ***Polène is committed to an inclusive, ethical and equitable culture throughout its recruitment processes. We welcome you as you are, with your talents, your energy and your desire to contribute.*** --- Source: Polène Paris's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/pol-ne-paris-senior-business-controller-ba06e0d8-3a21-4797-9ff9-93e9ccaee003