Budget Controller
Cairo, Egypt
- Reference number: 248580
- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Date posted: 27/10/2026
- Employment type: Full-time
- Professional field: Finance & Legal
- Type of contract: Fixed-Term
- Business Finance
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 directly to the CFO in Egypt, you will act as a key strategic partner driving financial planning, compliance, and cash management across our divisions.
- Financial Planning & Analysis: Build budgets and trends aligned with Zone calendars, analyze sales drivers, and deliver simple, impactful recommendations to upper management using tools like i-closing and L'Oréal GPT.
- Financial Control & Systems: Ensure compliance with Group standards and P&L norms, leveraging your accounting foundation and systems expertise (SAP, Magnitude, Compass).
- Cash Flow & Commercial Finance: Manage cash flow positions and working capital variances, while partnering on commercial finance and sales distribution agreements.
We Are Looking For You are an energetic, detail-oriented professional with a strong work ethic and a collaborative mindset. Key skills from our Skills Library:
- Highly experienced in financial controlling within a multinational environment (retail is a plus).
- Expert user of SAP and reporting systems (Magnitude, Compass).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- De-silo mindset to drive cross-functional cooperation and deliver impactful narratives.
- Fluency in English and Arabic.
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.
AI Charter: our pact
Why a Pact? At L’Oréal, innovation has been in our DNA for over 115 years. As we invent the future of beauty, we see Artificial Intelligence as a powerful co-pilot, with the firm belief that technology must always serve people. This pact is our commitment to you: we want to be transparent about how we use AI during the recruitment journey, and we invite you to use it in a way that showcases your unique talents. Above all, we believe in a journey that is ethical, transparent, and human.
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What’s different
about working at L'Oréal?
People often expect a global company of our size to run on rigid rules and strict playbooks. We don’t. What makes L’Oréal different is our entrepreneurial mindset. Whether you work in tech, finance, supply chain, or marketing, you aren’t here just to follow instructions. You are here to take ownership and shape your own projects from day one.
The pace is fast, and the learning curve is steep. But in return, you get the trust to try new things and the support to make a real impact. If you want a role where your voice actually shapes the work and the chance to work in over 40 worldwide brands, this is where you do it.
You’d be a great fit. We’d love to see you apply.
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