KEY JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES
1/ Junior Finance Controller
In charge of Marketing Activities & Expenses controlling for all brands:
- Quarterly trends and annual budget plan + construction in his/her area of activity (Compass)
- Variance analyses between Actuals & Planned throughout the year
- Head of monthly closing process (technical part - Compass) + reporting (Magnitude)
- Produce and/ or supervise monthly reports in his/her area of activity
- Leading A&Ps meetings (incl. upfront follow-up files monthly update) with product & brand managers
- Validation of spending in different systems: purchase orders & internal orders (SAP) and media campaigns (Contacts)
- Follow-up & validation of local codes creations (Cosmo)
- Optimization of costs in accordance with the Standards and good practices set down by Internal Control & Group Rules while maintaining constant links with his/ her contacts (e.g. customer benefits, value analysis, cost analysis, POS advertising, CSV etc.)
- Monitor costs and carry out all analyses required in order to identify risks and opportunities and suggest appropriate actions
2/ Business Analyst
Provide the Sales Department or others with all relevant analyses in order to assess market development & commercial performance and give recommendations.
- Collect & analyze data on sell in/ sell out
- Summarize, format and share analyses to help decision-makers manage commercial activities
- Cross-reference data from the sales force, market studies (internal and external) and marketing in order to have a comprehensive understanding of the business
- PROFESSIONAL & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
1/ Junior Finance Controller
- CONTROL OF MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL CONTROL STANDARDS: Use financial documents and ensure their compliance with internal and external standards
- EFFICIENTLY USE OF REPORTING AND CONSOLIDATED DATA: Ensure that financial reporting is in line with Group standards
- PROJECT AND ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: Anticipate and identify opportunities, risks and solutions
- OPTIMIZES COSTS: Apply calculation methods to model and evaluate performance in his/ her field of activity
- BUILD BUDGETS THAT SUPPORT GROWTH: Develop budgets and financial forecasts (trends) in conjunction with managers: P&L, balance sheet and working capital
- ACT PROACTIVELY AS A "BUSINESS PARTNER": calculate and interpret financial results in order to set goals and recommend changes that support the strategy and contribute to efficiency
- MAKE THE MOST OF INFORMATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: make links between various systems (SAP, Boost, Compass, …) in order to identify and analyze points of attention
2/ Business Analyst
- Be the Boost Referent for the data analyst part
- Design sales performance monitoring dashboards and reporting tools
- Analyze the operational impacts of commercial policies on market performance (e.g. measuring the effects of off/ on-line advertising campaigns)
- Measure the return on investment (ROI) of these policies from a commercial and financial perspective
- Make recommendations in terms of incentives (distribution) and variable compensation (salespeople)
- YOUR PROFILE
- Master degree
- Fluent in NL or FR + EN
L’Oréal
would like her personnel to represent the diversity of the Belgian society. We
welcome everyone regardless of origin, gender, age, sexual orientation,
philosophical or political conviction, disability, etc.