O pozici
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.
Co budeš dělat
- 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.
Koho hledáme
- 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.
Benefity
- 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.
