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). And right now we are searching for one of the coolest ones!
A Day in the Life
As a (Senior) Finance Controller at the Professional Products Division (PPD), you will play a pivotal role in driving the financial performance of our prestigious portfolio of professional and luxury hair care brands within the CZ/HU/SK region.
As L’Oréal’s founding division, PPD is a highly dynamic business engine. We manage a premium, high-margin, multichannel portfolio (including Kérastase, L'Oréal Professionnel, and Redken) spanning salon networks, social commerce, and selective retail - combining rapid digital acceleration with pioneering beauty-tech to drive profitable market share.
Reporting directly to the Finance Director, you will own the full P&L of the online channel, ensuring accurate financial management and performance tracking. By partnering with cross-functional commercial & marketing teams, you will contribute to business growth through insightful analysis, process optimization, and strategic decision support in the highly dynamic beauty market.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- P&L Ownership: Manage and control the full P&L of a luxury business channel, ensuring high financial accuracy and clear visibility to drive selective distribution and commercial decision-making.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process, aligning financial plans with luxury brand strategies, high-end product launches, and selective growth objectives.
- Strategic Business Partnering: Act as a strategic finance business partner to the marketing and commercial teams, providing financial insights that shape selective pricing, high-touch promotional strategies, and go-to-market executions.
- Performance Optimization: Enhance business performance by monitoring key drivers, identifying risks and opportunities, and proposing corrective actions tailored to luxury retail dynamics.
- Management Reporting: Deliver monthly performance reviews and variance analysis to management, translating financial results into clear commercial implications for boutique, e-commerce, and department store channels.
- ROI Evaluation: Evaluate the financial impact and ROI of premium commercial initiatives, brand activations, trade investments, counters, and selective retail animations.
- Compliance & Agility: Ensure strict compliance, internal controls, and financial discipline while enabling the commercial agility required in the luxury sector.
- Continuous Improvement: Challenge the status quo, driving efficiencies, refining financial analysis, and embedding a performance-driven mindset across the division.
We Are Looking For
- 4+ years in Controlling/Commercial finance with strong analytical and reporting skills.
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Good understanding of P&L management (revenue, gross margin, OPEX, trade and retail spend, counters capitalization) & expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Preferred experience with SAP & solid command of the Microsoft Office package (particularly Excel).
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to translate complex financials into business language, with strong influencing and stakeholder management at different levels of the organization.
- Fluency in English.
What’s In It For You
- Growth & Boldness - Step out of your comfort zone, take risks, and own your scope with real responsibility from Day 1.
- Unlimited career prossibilities - lately, we transitioned 5 colleagues to new growth roles within our finance structure!
- A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal/environmental causes to make a concrete difference.
- Getting involved in interesting projects - eg. PPD will rollout new business planning tool (Northstar) next year!
- Share & care policy: Our global commitment that focuses on well-being,and offers top-tier benefits in health, family support, financial protection, and work-life balance.
- Company benefits such as profit sharing, 25 days of vacation, 3 sick days, 170 CZK meal vouchers, discounts on all company's products, etc.
We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and 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, expression, or sexual orientation.