Senior Commercial Controller - Consumer Products Division

Senior Commercial Controller, Consumer Products Division

About the Role

As a Commercial Controller at L’Oréal Benelux, you will be a key business partner of commercial teams, providing and analyzing financial performance for channels & customers, influencing commercial teams to drive value in the business.

What will you do?

• Lead budget, trends and actual financial results on your perimeter in line with Group’s standards, guidelines and deadlines.
• Interpret financial results, anticipate, and identify risks and opportunities in your area of responsibility.
• Influence with financial data strategic commercial decisions to drive value in the business.
• Contribute actively to the Sales and Finance transformation journey by optimizing processes, enhancing efficiency and driving financial performance to create value for the organization.
• Maximize financial systems usage and efficiency (SAP, BOOST, COMPASS) as well as leverage knowledge and intuition around systems.
• Ensuring improvement and application of Internal Control procedures

About the division

At L’Oréal Consumer Products Division (CPD), we create personalized brand experiences online and offline that make our customers the center of our iconic brand universe. We make the customer the hero of our brand story. Every day we push boundaries in the world of traditional and digital strategies to advance the brand building, the retail excellence and the digital engagement creating real emotion through memorable brand experiences and creative marketing initiatives.

Who are we looking for?

To ensure the best match, we want to provide as clear a picture of the role as possible

Hard skills

For this position, we are looking for someone who meets at least the following requirements:

• Holds a Master's degree in Finance
• 5+ years of work experience in business controlling/auditing/financial management
• Fluent in English and either Dutch or French, both spoken and written
• Strong computer skills required (Advanced Excel a must), enhanced systems literacy
• Proficient use of SAP and Power BI is a plus
• Experience at a Big4 and/or in FMCG/retail is a plus

Soft skills

As one of the leading companies in FMCG, you can assume that L’Oréal will challenge you in this role to get the best out of yourself. A "dynamic work environment" is an understatement; you will need to be able to deal with rapid changes, short lines of communication, and hands-on solutions. At the same time, the interests of our strategic partners and consumers always come first. It is crucial that you maintain an overview in this complex environment.

For this reason, we are looking for someone with the following personal characteristics:

• Strong analytical, organizing and problem-solving skills
• Team spirit, cooperative mindset
• Strong communicator (gentle on the person, firm on the content)
• Ambition to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced and matrix work environment
• Agility and solution orientation

What do we offer?

When you start at L’Oréal, you are given a high degree of personal responsibility from day one. To help you develop, we offer an introduction program and an individual training program. Training can be local or at the global headquarters in Paris—an enriching experience where you will meet international peers.

And you will also find with us:

• An inspiring work environment with ambitious colleagues
• Healthy career prospects with good development and growth opportunities
• A competitive salary that is adjusted annually based on good performance
• Good secondary employment conditions, including a 13th month, profit sharing, a discount on health insurance, and a favorable pension scheme
• Discounts on L’Oréal products and with strategic partners, such as the Rob Peetoom hairdressing chain
• Fun extras such as various sporting company activities

Finally, a significant added value of working at L’Oréal is that you will collaborate with so many different people and functions. This offers you the chance to broaden your knowledge of different stakeholders. You will work with colleagues from disciplines such as Sales, Marketing, Digital, and Supply Chain.

Diversity in recruitment

At L’Oréal, we do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, or age:

"A diversified workforce in every function and on all levels strengthens our creativity and our understanding of consumers and it enables us to develop and market products that are relevant." Jean-Paul Agon CEO of L’Oréal