Finance Industrial Placement

Based: L’Oréal UK

Location: Hammersmith and Llantrisant, Wales.

Duration: 54 weeks

Start date: Monday 25^th June 2018

Annual Salary:  £18,000 per annum

Role Description

As a billion pound company success often stems from managing the P&L effectively. At L’Oreal 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 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.

Principle Accountabilities

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.

About You

•  Have strong technical skills along with an ability to analyse and draw conclusions from complex data, use this insight to provide reasoned recommendations
• Confident 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

Please note that once you have submitted your application the Graduate Team will be reviewing it at the first available opportunity. However, in some instances you may be waiting a number of weeks to be hearing back from us due to other team constraints.