SENIOR FINANCE ANALYST 

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

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will be a key partner to our business teams, providing your expertise to drive the financial performance of our marketing spend. You will report to the Controlling Director and work in close collaboration with the marketing, digital, and commercial teams.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Budgetary Control: Manage the monitoring and control of marketing expenses, identifying risks and opportunities to guide decisions.
• Business Partnership: Act as a strategic financial partner for the marketing and commercial teams, actively participating in their meetings and providing guidance.
• Analysis & Reporting: Take ownership of updating forecasts and budgets, analyzing variances, and proposing corrective actions.
• Process Improvement: Lead projects to improve financial processes, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.

We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone with strong analytical skills and an excellent ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams. Your agility and strategic mindset will be key to your success in this role.

The ideal candidate has:

• Proven experience as a Financial Analyst (5-8 YEARS) in a company or in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry is an asset. 
• The ability to manage change and learn new information systems quickly.
• A completed university degree in a relevant field.
• Strong knowledge of the Office suite; experience with SAP is an asset.
• Excellent communication skills (both French and English).

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
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal/environmental causes to make a 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 an 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.

We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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