Manager- Global Finance; Margin & Profitability

Job Title
Manager
- Global Finance (Margin and Profitability)

Brands
:
Urban Decay & Youth to the People

Location
:
El Segundo, CA

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business:
Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beautyin terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L'Oréal Luxe our mission is to provide our consumers the best products and brand experience by making it unique.
Our portfolio is composed of 21 brands including major brands, highly aspirational and multi-expert, such as Lancôme, Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani and Kiehl’s.

At L’Oréal, our Finance teams turn data into insights and risk analysis into solutions while ensuring the Group’s financial performance is top notch. We have a diverse range of expertise at L'Oréal Finance, including Financial Planning & Controlling, Internal Audit, Mergers and Acquisitions, Treasury, Tax and Consolidation. We bring numbers to life! Come join our dynamic team!

The Manager of Inter Group Margin holds the financial reporting and analysis responsibility for Product Margin of Urban Decay and Youth to the People (UD and YTTP) and accountable to drive the end-to-end Transfer Price and Launch profitability processes within Luxe Affaire Produit.

To ensure financial excellence and margin integrity, the Manager works with:

• Luxe WW Division DMI Finance and US Tax team on global standards and ensuring tax compliance
• UD and YTTP’s DMI Marketing, Brand Controller and General Management to drive brand-specific growth and profitability.
• Luxe Operations & Affaire Marché Finance Teams to optimize product and supply chain costs and alignment on local market execution.

• Profitable Growth & Business Partnering [40%]
  • Work with UD and YTTP’s Marketing to ensure new product launches are accretive to the Product Margin across all Zones. Act as the final financial gatekeeper for launch profitability.
  • Support the UD and YTTP’s DMI Marketing Teams, leveraging financial data to drive optimal business decisions and ROI.
• Financial Planning & Operational Excellence of Inter Group Margin and Transfer Price [40%]:
  • End-to-end management of Trend and Budget cycles for Inter Group Margin of UD and YTTP. This includes ensuring accuracy, and providing final projections to senior leadership.
  • Proactively identify margin risks or opportunities related to inventory flow and logistics, and lead the development of mitigation strategies through monthly reconciliation and analysis
  • Synthesize complex monthly performance data into high-level executive summaries, providing the analysis on key performance and variance drivers to senior leadership
  • Perform Transfer Price update and coordinate with WW Division DMI Finance team to ensure full alignment on processes and timeline. Reflect properly any updates on key assumptions, physical and financial flows, launch pillars etc in transfer price calculation to each Zones and Countries.
  • Enforce controls to ensure all inter-group billings are accurate, especially the master data for existing products, sets and non-salable items are up-to-date and compliant to meet fiscal profit objectives. Any incorrect billings are resolved in a timely manner. (especially on Triangular flows)
  • Implement process automation with AFPt and other and data integrity within the Margin function. Identify manual inefficiencies and lead the implementation of standardized and scalable workflows.
  • Maintains rigorous internal controls and documentation for all inter-company transactions, serving as the lead point of contact for internal and external audit inquiries related to Luxe Division margins.
• Transformation & Systems Strategy [20%]
  • NEO Implement and process improvement (2026):
    Implement and highlight areas of improvement
  • Implement new intiatives:
    Lead special projects aimed at digitizing margin controls and improving reporting speed, ensuring the USA Brands remain at the forefront of financial technology within L’Oréal.