Europe Zone L’Oréal Supply Chain: delivering beauty that moves Europe! 

L'Oréal's Supply Chain is a strategic lever to react to the rapid changes in the market and meet its expectations, to strengthen consumer satisfaction and confidence.

We are accelerating our transformation to be the Supply Chain that makes a difference for our customers and the consumers.

Europe Zone Supply Chain Finance is recruiting a Zone Supply Chain Finance Controller for its team based in the Operations Headquarters in Clichy, France.

Your missions

As a Business Partner, you contribute proactively to the economic performance of your Europe Supply Chain by advising the Europe Supply Chain Director and the Europe Supply Chain CFO in proximity with Europe Supply Chain Zone teams and all Europeans countries.

Your key accountabilities : 

Finance Controlling

• Supervise the main economic indicators of the Europe Supply Chain and implement the necessary action plan to achieve the objectives defined by the Group,
• Lead the financial reporting processes in close cooperation with all the actors (Actual, Budget, Trend). Scope of responsibility:
  1. Budget controlling of inbound costs (inbound freight, customs duties, other costs), physical distribution costs (warehousing and outbound freight), obsolete, slow-moving and other logistics costs.
  2. Controlling inventory, receivables (total credit and overdue), and investments.
  3. Monitoring of other key performance indicators (e.g. service levels, quality of forecasts, headcount/productivity and sustainability) in coordination with departments in charge.
  4. Produce monthly reporting of activity in a timely manner, respecting the deadlines, ensure data quality, and communicate effectively
  5. Analyze the gaps, check data consistency, challenge results, identify risks/opportunities and propose corrective actions needed to keep the budget’s targets.
  6. Follow-up the financial impact of key initiatives/projects and evaluate the results.
  7. Participate actively in the preparation of meetings with top management (COMEX) such as Budget, prospective, …

Business Partnership

Develop a close relationship with key stakeholders to anticipate risks and opportunities.

Be an active member of the Supply Chain Committee to contribute to the definition. and implementation of the strategy, and provide controlling / economic expertise.

Participate in building business plans for key Supply Chain projects.

Internal Control

Ensure full compliance with the Group’s standards and local regulations

Contribute to the respect and improvement of internal control practices.

Follow up and contribute to the implementation of internal audit action plans.

Your profile

At least two solid experiences as a Financial Controller in a fast-paced, complex multinational environment.

Ability to work effectively in an international, multi-cultural environment,

Strong cooperative, collaborative team spirit in a matrix environment,

Flexibility and creativity in problem solving,

Leadership skills,

Fluent in English.