CSP Internal Controller (M/F/NB) - CDI

About the company

HERE, it's KIABI!

Joining our adventure means sharing a vision!

At KIABI, we believe in a unique professional experience, where every talent can flourish, innovate, and create a positive impact. Our commitment is based on three essential pillars:

• A strong Human Culture: because people are at the heart of everything we do. We cultivate a caring, inclusive, and collaborative environment, where everyone can be themselves and grow together. This human culture unique to KIABI is built around our 4 values: simplicity, trust, respect, and commitment.
• Singularity: daring to do things differently, going off the beaten track, breaking the codes. Here, every idea counts and every Kiaber contributes to writing our story with boldness and creativity!

• Innovation: a driver that propels us toward the future! We encourage experimentation, new approaches, and projects that move the lines of fashion and retail.

Our Vision? To offer an inspiring framework where well-being, professional evolution, and positive impact meet. Certified Great Place to Work®, our company is a true field of opportunities, where everyone can build their future and contribute to a more responsible world.

That is why, and much more, Here, it's Kiabi!

Your tasks

Within the Finance teams and reporting to the CSP R2R Leader, you are the internal control referent for the activities operated by the Shared Services Center.

Your main mission is to design, deploy, and manage a robust internal control system, proportionate to the risks and integrated into the CSP processes. You will specifically ensure compliance with Sapin II law requirements, respect for Group standards and procedures, the reliability of accounting operations, and the securing of R2R, P2P, and O2C processes.

In a logic of prevention, detection, and continuous improvement, you will support operational teams, challenge the effectiveness of controls, follow remediation plans, and contribute to spreading a sustainable culture of risk management within the CSP.

Main responsibilities 1. Build and maintain the CSP internal control system (COSO Method)

• Construction of the CSP internal control framework in connection with the group internal control.
• Mapping of operational, financial, and compliance risks.

• Design and formalization of key controls.
• Evaluation of control effectiveness and subsequent improvements.

• Management of remediation plans, testing their effectiveness.
• Developing the internal control culture within the department.

2. Implement and manage Sapin II compliance within the CSP

• Design, formalize, and maintain anti-corruption accounting controls covering the main financial processes.
• Ensure that every identified risk has appropriate, documented, and regularly executed controls.

• Define the methods for performing controls, expected evidence, alert thresholds, and escalation rules.
• Guarantee the preservation and traceability of elements demonstrating the effective execution of controls.

3. Guarantee compliance with processes, procedures, internal standards, and the proper use of data frameworks.

• Participate in the construction of all processes to include internal control by design.
• Implement monitoring of the correct application of processes.

• Guarantee the update of the group accounting manual.
• Lead all countries and the CSP on its application.

4. Coordinate audits

• Plan the annual audit mission with the various stakeholders in connection with the R2R leader and the CSP leader.
• Organize the annual debriefing meeting for the N-1 audit and present annual updates.

• Manage and follow action plans related to elements raised in the management letters from our auditors.

Example KPIs for the position

• 100% of anti-corruption controls completed
• 100% of sensitive third parties evaluated
• 100% of processes controlled / year
• Number of anomalies detected

Furthermore, the future job holder will implement a monitoring dashboard for their activity, which will be debriefed monthly to the CSP co-lead and made available to the key instances of Kiabi's organization.

Requirements

Education Master's degree (Bac + 4/5) in audit, internal control, finance, accounting, risk management, compliance, or business school.

Experience Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in internal control, audit, compliance, risk management, or operational finance, ideally acquired in an international environment, a Shared Services Center, an audit firm, or a highly process-driven organization.

Concrete experience with anti-corruption systems, Sapin II accounting controls, and R2R, P2P, and O2C processes is a major asset.

Key skills

• Influence and Leadership
• Pedagogical skills

• Communicator
• Control by design

• Project management
• Analysis and rigor

• Fluent English

What we offer

Why join us?

• A company recognized as a Great Place to Work, ranked #1 among companies with more than 2,500 employees
• A structured integration process and training to support your evolution
• Compensation consisting of a 12-month fixed salary and a collective variable component
• Share ownership: average increase of 12.86% per year over the last 5 years
• A 25% discount on KIABI products

Other

Key relationships Internally: CSP operational teams, group internal control, Finance Department, Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, Management Control, Tax, Treasury, IT, Data, Information Systems Security, Human Resources, and the management of the served countries.

Externally: statutory auditors, auditors, specialized consultants, and other partners involved in the control or compliance system.