Senior Internal Audit Manager - Global Corporate

About the job

As a Senior Internal Audit Manager for the Global Corporate Functions, you will play a pivotal role in delivering impactful assurance and insights across the House’s operations, with a particular focus on strategic audits, and global systems implementations.

Operating within a luxury retail environment, you will lead and oversee complex audits across areas such as Finance, Technology, People & Organisation, Legal, and Business Ethics ensuring strategic alignment with the House’s objectives and professional standards. You will manage multiple concurrent audits, guiding every stage from risk assessment and planning through to stakeholder engagement and reporting.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to engage directly with senior leaders across global functions and to help strengthen governance, risk management, and internal controls within a highly dynamic business. You will also contribute to enterprise risk management initiatives and coach audit team members, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

The position includes occasional travel (up to 20% per year), depending on the annual audit plan, offering the chance to collaborate closely with divisional, regional, and local teams and experience the diversity of the House’s operations firsthand.

If you are an analytical, tech-savvy audit professional who thrives in a collaborative and fast-evolving environment, this role provides both the challenge and opportunity to influence how leading luxury brand operates globally,

What impact you create at Chanel

Through your audits and insights, you will bring clarity to complex areas and animate conversations with leadership, turning observations into actionable strategies that shape decision-making and drive meaningful improvement. You will contribute to the continuous improvement of processes, systems, and governance, ensuring that innovation, discipline, and compliance coexist in balance. You will play a key role in connecting the dots between business and technology to help the House operate with confidence and integrity. In this role, your work will help ensure that the foundations supporting client experience, creativity, and excellence remain paramount.

What makes this role unique is the opportunity to combine precision with purpose. To uphold the standards of one of the world’s most respected luxury brands while animating its future.

You are energised by

You are energised by working in a truly global, fast-paced environment where no two audits are the same. You thrive on uncovering insights that will strengthen operational performance, particularly when it comes to emerging technologies and digital transformation initiatives.

You enjoy collaborating across functions and geographies, engaging with senior stakeholders and translating complex risks into clear, actionable, pragmatic recommendations. You find motivation in coaching others and seeing your work contribute to meaningful, measurable improvements.

You are inspired by challenge and change and are comfortable navigating ambiguity, managing multiple priorities, and adapting to evolving business needs. Most of all, you are motivated by the opportunity to combine your analytical mindset, curiosity, and professional rigour to help shape how a renowned luxury brand operates at its best.

What you will bring

• You bring a blend of professional maturity, technical excellence, and curiosity. You have solid experience in external audit (preferably at one of the Big 4), internal audit, and/risk management, ideally gained in an international business environment. Experience in the retail, consumer goods, or luxury industry is highly valued as it enables you to understand the unique rhythm, creativity, and operational complexity of a global maison.
• You combine strong analytical skills with sound business judgement, allowing you to quickly understand complex processes, identify key risks, and propose pragmatic, tailored solutions. You are skilled at managing multiple assignments, balancing attention to detail with the ability to see the bigger picture.
• You communicate with clarity and confidence, both in writing and in person, and you are comfortable engaging with senior leaders to influence outcomes and built trust. You demonstrate integrity, discretion, and resilience in handling sensitive matters and driving accountability.
• You are collaborative by nature, someone who thrives in diverse teams. Your mindset is proactive and innovative, and you are comfortable working with data-analytics and technology to enhance audit quality and insight.
• Professional qualifications such as CPA, CIA, CISA, and CFE are an advantage, as is experience with audits of IT environments, technology implementations, and/or ERP systems.

What Chanel can offer you

• Joining the Internal Audit team means becoming part of House that has built its legacy on creativity, excellence, and curiosity. You will gain unique insight into how a global luxury maison combines artistry and business discipline to uphold the highest standards of integrity and performance.
• Through hands-on audit work and close collaborate with a diverse stakeholder group, you will sharpen your technical, analytical, and interpersonal skills. You will also have the opportunity to deepen your experience in technology, governance, and risk management.
• The company fosters a strong culture of growth and empowerment, promoting from within and supporting every individual to shape their own professional path. Here, you will be encouraged to grow your leadership, refine your expertise, and make a meaningful contribution to the continued success of a timeless global brand.

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to Chanel.