Finance Controller

Hello, we're L'Oréal,

We're not just building brands, we're shaping how the world experiences beauty (and it takes a lot of cool jobs to do it). Intrigued? Keep reading, this might be the opportunity you've been searching for.

A Day in the Life

As a Finance Controller at L'Oréal Consumer Product Division in Prague, you will play a pivotal role in driving the financial performance.

Reporting directly to the Finance Commercial Manager, you will own the full P&L of given channel, ensuring accurate financial management and performance tracking. By partnering with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to business growth through insightful analysis, process optimization, and strategic decision support.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and control the full P&L of a business channel, ensuring financial accuracy and visibility to drive commercial decision-making.
• Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process, aligning financial plans with commercial strategies and growth objectives.
• Act as a strategic finance business partner to the Channel Director and commercial teams, providing financial insights that shape pricing, promotions, and go-to-market strategies.
• Enhance business performance by monitoring key drivers, identifying risks and opportunities, and proposing corrective actions.
• Deliver monthly performance reviews and variance analysis to management, translating financial results into clear commercial implications.
• Evaluate the financial impact and ROI of commercial initiatives (e.g., trade investments, product launches, promotional activities).
• Ensure compliance and financial discipline while enabling agility in commercial execution.
• Challenge the status quo, driving efficiencies, improving financial analysis, and embedding a performance mindset across the business.

We Are Looking For

• Experience 5+ years in Controlling/Commercial finance with strong analytical and reporting skills.
• Good understanding of P&L management (revenue, gross margin, OPEX, trade spend) & expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Preferred experience with SAP & solid command of Microsoft office package.
• Prior experience in FMCG / Consumer Goods or other commercial finance roles preferred.
• Good communication and presentation skills to translate financials into business language & influencing and stakeholder management at different levels of the organization.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• 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.