Strategic Financial Lead

2 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia L'Oréal Full time
About the Role

Estimate Salary: $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Company Overview

L'Oréal Australia is part of the world's largest pure beauty company, L'Oréal Group, with a rich history and experience in providing high-quality hair care and hair color products and services to salons across Australia.

Our Professional Products Division offers a wide range of brands, including Kerastase, L'Oreal Professionnel, Redken, Pureology, and Matrix, to meet the evolving needs of hairdressing salons and their customers.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Commercial Controller to join our team, responsible for taking full ownership of the financial management of daily sales, monthly sales forecasts, and supporting budget planning processes.

You will work closely with the senior commercial controller, managing trading terms and customer contracts, as well as building and maintaining strong relationships with various stakeholders to prepare annual budgets and revised quarterly budgets and monthly financial forecasts.

This role requires a strategic mindset and ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, driving financial insights to enable sustainable growth while ensuring internal controls are always respected.

Key Responsibilities
  • Business planning and optimization
  • Assist in preparing brand and customer budgets, quarterly revised budgets, and monthly sales forecasts
  • Monitoring in-month tracking sales and discount/promotions based on customer contracts and trading terms
  • Manage cost of sales and gross margin
  • Customer/commercial contracts and trading term management: maintain large volumes of customer/commercial contracts and trading terms, validate renew and new contracts, and manage through P&L
  • Business partnering:
    • Using L'Oreal knowledge, market, and financial expertise to understand, improve, and challenge overall effectiveness of the business
    • Projects: lead and be part of all commercial and leading financial projects related to commercial and category
    • Assist in monitoring in-month tracking gross-to-net and gross margin
  • Internal Control:
    • Ensure group norms are respected at all times
    • End-to-end deal-to-cash management with customers
    • Provide finance training and development to the commercial team and other stakeholders
Requirements
  • CA/CPA qualified with a minimum number of years post-qualified experience in a large organization and ideally in the FMCG industry (not essential)
  • A commercial mindset demonstrating practical business acumen with experience providing business insights
  • You will be required to work well under pressure with multiple competing deadlines and changing challenges
  • Ability to review high-volume information output for accuracy and plausibility, detecting and reconciling anomalies quickly
  • SAP experience and advanced Excel skills are must-haves, with experience in data analysis and modeling
  • Strong communication skills – written and verbal, and sound presentation skills
  • Highly organized with prioritization skills

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