Brand Controller (Maternity Cover Contract)

At L'Oréal Consumer Products, our mission is to democratize the best of beauty, and for us, beauty has to be sustainable. 🌿

We embrace and enhance emerging trends to create the most relevant and sustainable beauty products and experiences, making them accessible to each and everyone all around the world, thanks to the diversity of our brands and their communities. 🚀

🔍As a Brand Controller your scope will be:

• Management of the margins and profitability of dedicated brands under the Consumer Products Division.
• Preparation and overseeing of the marketing budgets, anticipating risks and opportunities.
• Review the monthly business performance and provide strategic and financial action plan partnering with the Brand Managers.
• Management of the marketing spending to be aligned with the budget and analyze the effectiveness of the marketing spending in order to maximize the return on investment.
• Undertaking all cost analyses in order to detect risks and propose the actions required to maintain budgetary objectives.
• Daily monitoring of administrative process behind marketing expenses (PO creation, appropriate classification).
• Animation and tracking timely completion of internal control alternative actions.
• Rules of Engagement implementation and monitoring.
• Playing an active role as a Business Partner for the Marketing Population.

🔍We are looking for:

• An enthusiastic professional with a change mindset and at least 3 years of relevant previous experience in financial controlling.
• University degree in Finance & Accounting or/and International Business & Economics.
• Independently manage workload and prioritize appropriately to meet deadlines.
• A team player with a positive can-do attitude and willingness to go the extra mile for a common goal.
• Good analytical skills as well as an ability to step back and see the ‘big picture’. 
• Strong interpersonal skills: communicating, defending ideas, and convincing. 
• Efficiency-oriented: proactively challenging the status quo to design more efficient ways of working. 
• Fluent in professional English.

🌟We offer: 

• Maternity Cover Contract with possibility for a permanent contract after.
• Plenty of opportunities to grow – cross-divisionally and functionally. 
• Rich e-learning package.
• Attractive benefit package including sports card, private health care, life insurance, pension package, and internal boutique with a discount, and product allocations.
• Annual bonus system.
• Diversity & Inclusion: L'Oréal promotes equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. We prevent discrimination and harassment of any kind based on gender, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, origin, or disability. We walk the talk every day when it comes to Diversity & Inclusion.