A Day in the Life
As a (Senior) Commercial Finance Analyst at L’Oréal Luxe Division in Prague, you will play a pivotal role in driving the financial performance of our prestigious portfolio of luxury brands.
Reporting directly to the Finance Director, you will own the full P&L of a given luxury channel, ensuring accurate financial management and performance tracking. By partnering with cross-functional brand, marketing, and retail teams, you will contribute to business growth through insightful analysis, process optimization, and strategic decision support in the highly dynamic luxury 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
- Experience: 5+ years in Controlling/Commercial finance with strong analytical and reporting skills.
- Financial Expertise: Good understanding of P&L management (revenue, gross margin, OPEX, trade and retail spend, counters capitalization) & expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Tools: Preferred experience with SAP & solid command of the Microsoft Office package (particularly Excel).
- Industry Background: Prior experience in Luxury, Selective Retail, Cosmetics, or premium commercial finance roles preferred.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication and presentation skills to translate complex financials into business language, with strong influencing and stakeholder management at different levels of the organization.
- Education: Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Languages: Fluent in 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.
- 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 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 agile and transversal structures 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.