Summary:

At the crossroads of fashion and sport, Lacoste creates and liberates movement. Both universal and timeless, the brand transcends cultures and generations, elevating the crocodile as a rally sign.

An iconic French brand present in nearly 100 countries, Lacoste stand out for its unique know-how in each of its areas of expertise, from garment factory to omnichannel distribution.

At Lacoste, elegance goes beyond style. This elegance guides all of its actions and its social and environmental commitments.

Working at Lacoste is belonging to a community of 8,500 employees on the move to build the future. Committed to making equal opportunities a reality and to revealing potential, the company brings together talents from all walks of life, embracing their differences.

Lacoste is one of the inspiring brands driven by passionate people within the MF Brands Group, alongside Aigle, Gant, Tecnifibre and the Kooples (http://mf-brands.com/).

Job Description

This role leads financial performance management for the NORAM region by overseeing day‑to‑day financial operations, monthly closings, forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning. It provides analysis across P&L, inventory, and headcount, ensures accurate reporting to the parent company, and drives alignment between U.S. and Canadian markets. The position partners closely with business leaders to monitor KPIs, optimize investments, and support decision‑making, while also leading key cross‑functional projects, including the multi‑year global SAP implementation. Success in this role requires strong financial acumen, stakeholder management skills, and deep experience in controlling within a structured environment. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Drive the day to day business and Financial closings

• Assist the Accounting team to ensure the quality of data and allocations.
• Conduct preventive reviews with key stakeholders to ensure accurate, proactive, and transparent cost tracking
• Monthly FP&A forecasting tracking to ensure business YTD & STD accurancy.
• Monthly analysis of P&L (corporate departments, inventories, and headcount.) Advise on variances vs. LY, LF and Budget. Define and create action plan and communication of any risks and opportunities.
• Complete all monthly required reporting for parent company requirements. 
• Drive investment optimization by assessing ROI using landlord assumptions and Capex requests in partnership with Design, Architecture, Wholesale, and Retail.
• Closely monitor monthly Capex through CAR, budget, actual commitments, and remaining spend to ensure alignment with budget targets.
• Identify risk areas and alert management of any possible financial impact.

2. Steer and drive the business model for NORAM (US + Canada) Region

• Pilot all activity to ensure that economic models are aligned with objectives and strategy.
• Monitor all growth strategies and commitments.
• Work with the countries to get alignment on strategic pillars (USA / CAN).

3. Drive the forcasts/budget phases

• Contribute to Strategic plan, Budget and Forecast.
• Create and update forecast templates for all markets.
• Drive P&L, main KPIs and engage with market leaders to achieve objectives.
• Report to executive leaders (COMEX) forecast / budget results during financial review.

4. Market performance

• Report performance trends on weekly basis and provide KPIs that enables business decision.
• Ensure alignment of KPIs with strategy and key challenges.
• Build & industrialized Dashboards to monitor the buisness and strategy.
• Report to the COMEX forecast / budget results during Financial Review.

5. Stakeholder Finance

• Main stakeholder / partner for the countries.
• Ensure that business model and financial objectives are understood across financial population.
• Benchmark and share the best practices with regions and countries.
• Be a supoort on a day to day basis and provide operational support when needed.

6. Lead key crossfunctional projects

• Collaborate with IT team to develop new process to simplify market's submission (Hyperion).
• Play a key role in the rollout of Lacoste’s flagship four‑year transformation project—full SAP implementation.
• Worldwide projects impacting all countries in Lacoste (full SAP integration from ORLI).

Requirements/Qualifications: 

The ideal candidate brings 8–10 years of solid experience in financial controlling within a structured, fast‑paced environment, demonstrating strong analytical capability and a proven ability to manage complex, cross‑functional initiatives. This role requires someone who can quickly develop strong relationships across the organization and effectively influence a broad network of stakeholders. A deep understanding of the Lacoste business environment— or the ability to rapidly acquire it—will be essential to successfully lead and support one of the company’s most significant multi‑year transformation projects (SAP).

Skills:

• Open‑minded, curious, and highly engaged in understanding the business across all functions.
• Diligent, committed, and exceptionally organized, with strong attention to detail.
• Collaborative team player who can effectively interact with and influence stakeholders at all levels of management.
• Results‑oriented, proactive, and a quick learner with the ability to adapt in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and key financial systems (ORLI, SAP, Hyperion, QlikSense).
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Solid understanding of business operations and the drivers that impact performance.
• Strong competency in project management principals.

Core Values and Traits:

Play as One Team:

• Showing respect towards everyone
• Commitment for the team’s work and decisions

Play with Elegance:

• Striving for excellence
• Treating others with fair play and humility

Play by Daring:

• Having the courage to speak up, experiment and take initiative
• To explore new opportunities

Play with Tenacity:

• Constantly seek continuous improvement
• Learning from our failures

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* This job description is not intended to be exhaustive.  They can be changed orally or in writing at any time by the discretion of management.  We as Lacoste associates must always ensure that all functions of our position are represented with our core values being: Accountable, Collaborative, Caring and Audacious.  

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