Hello, we’re L’Oréal, We're not just building brands, we're shaping how the world experiences beauty (and it takes a lot of cool jobs to do it). Intrigued? Keep reading, this might be the opportunity you've been searching for.
A Day in the Life
Reporting to the Brands Finance Director, you will act as a strategic co-pilot for the Consumer Products Division, orchestrating the consolidation of Advertising & Promotion (A&P) across our iconic brands. You will join a fast-paced and dynamic finance team where you’ll play an integral role in moving our business forward.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Strategic & Financial Piloting: Lead the budget consolidation for the division's A&P, ensuring alignment with financial targets and providing insightful analysis on risks and opportunities to senior leadership.
- Budgetary Guardianship: Ensure accurate budget, forecast, and month-end reporting for Consumer Engagement and Touchpoint (CET) P&L lines, with a specific focus on our largest investment areas: Media and Advocacy.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including Marketing teams, our media agency, and both finance and non-finance partners, to drive strategic decisions.
- Performance & Process Optimization: Support and challenge strategic decisions through ROI analysis (BETIQ) and continuously improve financial reporting processes to enhance efficiency and transparency.
We Are Looking For
We are looking for a candidate with strong potential, who is resilient and capable of simplifying complexity. To be successful in this role, you should have:
- A Master’s degree in Finance or a related field; CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification is a plus.
- Highly experienced in a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) role, ideally within a consumer goods or retail environment.
- Strong analytical skills with an ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience partnering effectively across a complex matrix organization.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and SAP.
The 5 most relevant skills for this role are:
- Financial Acumen & Controlling
- Strategic Business Piloting
- Data Analysis & Insights
- Stakeholder Management & Influencing
- Agility & Complexity Management
What’s In It For You
- A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
- Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal
- An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
- A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal /environmental causes to make concrete difference
Who We Are
L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.
Our Finance and Legal Teams are organized in agile and transversal structure to combine a high level of expertise with a deep understanding of business stakes. Our teams have seized the full potential of the Data and the Fintech revolution to reinvent a real-time, highly reactive management of performance that encompasses all areas of value creation: Data, New Online and Services Business models, as well as Sustainability.
The Consumer Products Division is on a mission to democratize beauty at its best. That means celebrating the diverse beauty of humanity and engaging the maximum number of people worldwide while elevating the mass beauty market with premium innovations. Our aspirational brands are at the forefront, inspiring and capturing consumer desires across regions and beauty categories. We have powerful, industry-leading brands like L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Maybelline New York, NYX Professional Makeup, and more.
HOW WE RECRUIT
At L’Oréal, we take pride in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, and their contributions are valued. When we recruit, hire, train, promote or engage in any other employment practice, we are committed to being an inclusive employer regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, socioeconomic status, medical condition or disability, or any other protected status. When we look for talent, we welcome difference - different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and perspectives. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. You can let us know if you would like your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme within your application.
