Brand Finance Analyst

Brand Finance Analyst - L'Oréal Dermatological Beauty

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.

• Location: Hoofddorp, Netherlands
• Employment type: Full-time
• Type of contract: Permanent
• Professional field: Finance & Legal
• Business Finance

A Day in the Life

You partner directly with brand teams in L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty (LDB) to steer financial performance and shape strategic decisions, reporting to the Finance Manager.

• Own the full P&L for assigned brands and categories, providing clear financial steering and identifying margin drivers.
• Lead budgeting cycles and rolling forecasts, ensuring commercial targets and resource allocations align with strategic ambitions.
• Monitor advertising and promotion (A&P) investments, evaluating ROI and driving disciplined spend across marketing initiatives.
• Analyze monthly performance variances against budget and forecast, delivering actionable corrective recommendations to brand management.
• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain to evaluate business cases and pilot commercial growth opportunities.
• Uphold Internal Control standards across brand activities and facilitate internal and external audit reviews.

We Are Looking For

You bring strong analytical rigor, a collaborative mindset, and an eagerness to challenge the status quo. You bring:

• P&L Management: Proven capability to steer brand P&L performance, optimise resource allocation, and identify growth drivers.
• Forecasting and Planning: Track record leading financial planning, rolling forecasts, and variance analysis that inform strategic decisions.
• Business Acumen: Commercial mindset to partner with cross-functional teams, backed by solid academic grounding in finance, accounting, or economics.
• Financial Reporting: Practical capability to build clear financial presentations, leveraging advanced Excel and ERP systems such as SAP.
• Adapted Communication: Professional working proficiency in English, with the confidence to articulate financial insights and influence diverse stakeholders.

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
• 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

At L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty, we pioneer life-changing dermatological solutions across global brands such as La Roche-Posay, CeraVe, and Vichy, partnering with healthcare professionals to make skin health accessible to all.

People often expect a global company of our size to run on rigid rules and strict playbooks. We don’t. What makes L’Oréal different is our entrepreneurial mindset. Whether you work in tech, finance, supply chain, or marketing, you aren’t here just to follow instructions. You are here to take ownership and shape your own projects from day one.

The pace is fast, and the learning curve is steep. But in return, you get the trust to try new things and the support to make a real impact. If you want a role where your voice actually shapes the work and the chance to work in over 40 worldwide brands, this is where you do it.