At Decathlon, we have more than 100,000 employees who live every day for our common purpose, which is to make sport yours. In all countries where we operate, we share a strong and unique corporate culture reinforced by our four values of generosity, authenticity, vitality and responsibility. We value diversity, inclusion, and a welcoming environment where every teammate can contribute and grow.

We place innovation at the heart of our activities: from research to sales, including design, production and logistics. We also think that determination and passion for sport are essential to our team's success.

Join us and join a dynamic team, motivated and animated by sports passion. It’s time for you to face new challenges!

Within the Decathlon India's Finance department, you will integrate the Accounting Direction team playing a key role strenghtening the reliability of financials and ensuring the compliance of it.

As guardians we ensure the fiscal, legal and internal compliance of our financials for all activities. Additionally we ensure the efficiency of our process and solutions through the good balance of cost/quality monitoring.

You will integrate a team of three, working directly with the internal audit manager. You will animate control environments and compliance across various finance business activities, tackling internal audits, proposing solutions and follow up on the risk mitigation. The role requires the capacity to understand the business, the organization, systems involved and collaboratively improve the processes and policies to mitigate risks as well as improve efficiency.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

FINANCIAL REPORTING

• Preparation of financial statements according to Ind-AS.

• Managing the audit with Big 4 auditors for statutory audit and group reporting.

• Proactively anticipate audit requirements, collaborate with internal teams and external auditors on a regular basis and ensure timely completion of audit.

• Prepare supporting schedules, reconciliations, variance analyses and so on for the audit.

• Animate the Finance activities revision of accounts on a monthly basis.

• Ensure all processes comply with accounting policies, IFRS and IND AS.

• Communicate audit outcomes and performance recommendations to key stakeholders and follow through to ensure that recommendations are implemented.

• Provide accurate financial data on a timely basis for secretarial and regulatory reporting.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of financial systems and processes.

INTERNAL AUDIT & INTERNAL CONTROL

• Define Internal Audit scope by evaluating the risk at process level.

• Follow up with functional teams on closure of Audit observations.

• Finalizing  Internal Audit reports as per the defined standards

• Ensure compliance with ICFR requirements and Group control requirements.

• Identify and assess major risks that could affect the achievement of the company’s objectives.

• Updation of Risk and Control Matrix (RCM) on a regular basis inline with the changing processes.

• Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of the controls.

• Finalize the impact assessments for ineffective controls.

• Monitor controls on a regular basis, follow up on the action plans for ineffective controls and provide periodical training to the control owners and control performers on the Company’s controls.

• Contribute and promote internal control culture environment and integrity

• Ensure SOPs and documentation of all the processes and their updation from time to time

You are a Chartered Accountant with 3-4 years of post qualification experience in internal or external audit (Retail sector experience is an added advantage), 

You have a Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of internal audit standards, Ind AS and IFRS.

Key aspects of your profile :

• Interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with diverse teams

• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously, while maintaining accuracy

• Adaptability to a dynamic environment

• Proactive - you’re solution oriented.

• Curiosity to learn and continuously improve processes

• Sports passionate

Work Location: Decathlon Anubhava, Survey No 78/10, A2, Bellary Rd, Chikkajala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 562157

This is a Work from Office (with 1 day per week work from home).