Finance Industrial Placement

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Finance Industrial Placement

As a billion pound company success often stems from managing the P&L effectively. At L’Oréal finance is not just sitting on excel, you will have direct exposure to people in all functions including marketing, purchasing and IT providing you with the perfect opportunity to understand how L'Oréal operates.

You will...

You will be placed in one of our 34 brands and become an integral part of the team using all major financial software programmes i.e. Salesforce, SAP and Magnitude. The role will test and develop your financial awareness, business acumen and interpersonal skills. You will undertake projects (e.g. cost cutting project) alongside your day to day duties and ad hoc report requests.

Day-to-day you may be...

• Optimising the Group’s financial results by controlling/ensuring financial discipline.
• Financial assistance to Marketing Controller and marketing teams on a day to day basis.
• Analysing, reporting and ensuring correct procedures are enforced
• Provide key corporate decision-makers with timely and accurate information
• Using your initiative to manage growth and contribution to everything from product launches to pricing strategies.
• Full ownership of month end media reconciliation, looking at actuals to media plans. Involves liaising with our external media company to ensure the correct media costs are taken within the month.
• Assist in smooth closure of the month end process; ensuring costs are accounted for correctly within the P&L by running SAP reports and liaising with the marketing and purchasing teams.
• Communication of weekly statistics to the marketing teams.
• Calculation of month end commission on media to send to the advertising agency for billing.

You have...

In order to be successful in this role you will need to have:

• Strong technical skills along with an ability to analyse and draw conclusions from complex data, use this insight to provide reasoned recommendations
• Confidence in using Microsoft Excel with the aptitude to learn more
• Enjoy seeking new and creative solutions to business problems and using financial skills to approach these with an objective and rational view
• Demonstrate an ability to work in a multi-functional environment,
• Good communication skills to interact effectively with your business partners outside the Finance function
• Be able to operate in a fast moving environment, who can adapt to changing deadline

About L'Oréal

With 34 world-famous brands selling in 140 countries, it’s easy to see why L’Oréal are the world’s No. 1 cosmetics group. Even our brands are household names in their own right. From Ralph Lauren to Diesel; Maybelline to Urban Decay, if there’s a name you love in cosmetics, there’s a good chance it’s ours. That’s because we have the best talent in the business, constantly working to invent and revolutionise the industry.

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