Brand Financial Controller (1 year fixed-term contract)
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- Veröffentlicht:12 Februar 2025
- Pensum:100%
- Vertragsart:Temporär
- Sprache:Französisch (Fliessend), Englisch (Fortgeschritten)
- Arbeitsort:Chem. du Pré-Fleuri 5, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates
The L'OCCITANE Group is a leading international manufacturer and retailer of premium and sustainable beauty and wellness products. The Group operates in 90 countries worldwide and has 3,000 retail outlets, including over 1,300 of its own stores. Within its portfolio of premium beauty brands that champion organic and natural ingredients are: L'OCCITANE en Provence, Melvita, Erborian, L'OCCITANE au Brésil, LimeLife by Alcone, ELEMIS, Sol de Janeiro and Dr. Vranjes Firenze.
With its nature-positive vision and entrepreneurial ethos, L'OCCITANE Group is committed to investing in communities, biodiversity, reducing waste and to finding sustainable solutions to create a better and healthier planet. The mission statement of the Group is: With empowerment we positively impact people and regenerate nature.
L'OCCITANE is also committed to sustainability for business, people & the planet, as well as respect of human rights, ethics principles and labour protection. All employees at L'OCCITANE must therefore implement the company's mission and integrate the social, environmental, economic and legal effects of their actions in their day-to-day job. In practice, this means that any employee at L'OCCITANE shall contribute to growing sales, regenerating nature, caring for our consumers & partners and supporting our employees. The L'OCCITANE Group is a certified B CorporationTM.
MISSION & CONTEXT :
We are looking for a highly motivated Brand Financial Controller for a 1 year fixed-term contract to join our L'Occitane Finance team in Geneva. In this role, you will be supporting central L'Occitane product development teams in maintaining a profitable product portfolio at each stage of its lifecycle and participating to an exciting full product portfolio relaunch project !
The position is based in Plan-Les-Ouates (close to Geneva) and is reporting to the Brand Controlling Director.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- As part of the development process of new products, you will review, challenge and validate novelties' standard costs & price positioning to ensure margin targets achievement, in the exciting context of a full product portfolio relaunch project !
- Participate to the annual price increase process for products, kits, merchandising and promotional items.
- Participate to the Excess & Obsolete products management process to maximize stock exhaustion & minimize obsolescence costs.
- Each quarter, review and adjust our financial accruals for central inventory, and ensure follow-up on decisions made during the quarterly review.
- Impulse transversal projects in fields such as product catalogue value analysis & rationalization, new products/lines & marketing projects financial impact evaluation-
- Prepare monthly / quarterly profitability & contribution reporting and run ad hoc financial analysis required by the business.
HOW YOU CAN FIT:
- Master's degree in Finance or Controlling.
- 5+ year experience in a similar role and industry (beauty, cosmetics, fragrance, make-up) or in an FMCG environment.
- Fluent in French with at least a good command of English.
- Excellent command of Excel.
- Good command of SAP environment.
- Analytical and concise mindset, with a strong attention to details.
- Strong collaborative spirit and interpersonal skills.
- Autonomy.
WHAT WE OFFER:
- Working for a unique company, strongly committed towards the planet and the people (B Corp certification)
- Working with passionate colleagues coming from all over the world
- A unique culture centered around entrepreneurship, where everyone is expected to collaborate, experiment & move fast
- Monthly allocation & discount for store products
- 5 weeks annual leaves & 3 extra-days offered as public holidays
- Flexible and hybrid work arrangement
- Public transport allowance
STARTING DATE: April 2025 for a 12 months fixed-term contract
L'OCCITANE is an equal opportunities employer. This means that, when making decisions about our employees' careers with us, our main considerations are their ability to do their jobs and develop in their roles. One way we cultivate change is by creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace and organizational culture. As part of this, we are committed to building an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment where everyone feels respected and valued. We recruit positive-minded people who share our core values - entrepreneurship, team spirit, leading by example and authenticity - and our commitment to sustainability.
