EN - JOB DESCRIPTION
At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.
REPORTING TO: Finance Director.
POSITION PURPOSE:
To lead the financial planning and controlling department, coordinating a team of 4 people. To oversee the overall financial performance of the middle east region (6 retail countries and 7 legal entities), through insightful analysis, proactive risk management, and providing decision support to both local management and the headquarters in France.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Financial Planning Oversight: Manage and improve key financial planning processes.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the development of annual budgets, estimates, in collaboration with retail managers and department heads.
- Business Review Support: Assist in the preparation of market-level business reviews.
- Weekly and Monthly Reporting & Analysis: Deliver accurate sales and financial reports, including KPIs. Provide insightful analysis of variances against budget and prior year performance.
- Profitability Management:
- Investigate and address significant budget overspends and deviations, recommending corrective actions.
- Conduct gross margin and stock depreciation analysis, offering optimization strategies.
- Analyse market performance to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Team Development: Coach and mentor finance team members.
- Project Leadership: Lead financial projects as required.
- Process Improvement: Optimize existing financial processes and tools to support business development.
- Pricing process Coordination
- Financial Modelling: Develop financial models
- Capital investments preparation, submission and assessment
SKILLS, QUALITIFCATIONS AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Master’ degree in Finance or Business administration
- 10+ years as Finance Leader in multinational and large-scale companies; a previous experience in retail industry is preferred
- Strong analytical and Finance skills
- Proven experience as a successful team leader
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with ability to influence at various organizational levels
- Dynamic profile, agile & proactive, problem solver, team player
- Fluent in English, French is a plus
- Advanced Excel and Power Point is mandatory
- Expert knowledge of SAP & Power BI is a plus
HERE, YOU WILL FIND:
- Community, in which authenticity is embraced, and the strength of our differences fuels our collective spirit
- Culture of empowerment, learning & growth, that offers you the tools, space and opportunity to learn, innovate and lead
- Work that brings fulfillment. From delighting clients every day, to inspiring our industry at large, every action makes a difference
Join us and belong to something beautiful
