Experience the adventure

This is a full-time position.

Welcome to The Dual Strategic Finance Journey—a highly selective, fast-track development program within L’Oréal’s seedZ Management Trainee Program.

This unique 12-month experience is designed to bridge the gap between commercial finance excellence and cutting-edge technology. You will spend your first 6 months embedded in the fast-paced Consumer Products Division (CPD), co-piloting some of the world’s most iconic beauty brands. In your second 6 months, you will transition to the Beauty Tech (BT) Finance Team, driving automation, data infrastructure, and AI-driven transformation across 30+ European countries.

Your Responsibilities

Phase 1: CPD Brand Controlling Team (Months 1–6)

In this rotation, you will act as a financial co-pilot for global powerhouse brands including L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Mixa, Maybelline, and NYX, partnering with Marketing Directors to optimize P&L profitability.

Gross Margin Stewardship: Design and execute a monthly control framework to analyze Gross Margin (GM) evolution. Identify „tails” (underperforming SKUs) and analyze Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) drivers to actively improve bottom-line results.
Hero SKU Intelligence: Lead comprehensive 360° performance analyses of our top-performing products, tracking critical metrics such as Market Share, Sell-out dynamics, Gross Margins, and REX% (brand profitability).
Marketing Investment Efficiency: Partner closely with Marketing teams to analyze and optimize ROI and Advocacy metrics for high-stakes marketing campaigns and events with budgets exceeding 300k PLN.
Daily Financial Controlling Mastery: Support Purchase Order (PO) management in close collaboration with Brand Marketing Teams, analyzing PO workflows, troubleshooting bottlenecks, and driving key Pay On Time KPIs.

Phase 2: BT Finance Team (Months 7–12)

In this rotation, you will work at the intersection of Finance and Technology, contributing to highly visible projects seen by European CFOs and Finance Directors, accelerating our Beauty Tech transformation.

Process Auditing: Conduct comprehensive audits of current financial reporting workflows across 30 European business entities to identify bottlenecks and manual redundancies.
Data Pipeline & Dashboard Creation: Contribute to the design, construction, and deployment of centralized Group Power BI dashboards using robust Power Query data pipelines for monthly Finance IT KPIs.
AI-Driven Anomaly Detection: Define and implement over 20 new Finance IT KPIs and deploy AI-driven anomaly detection tools to flag reporting inconsistencies automatically, targeting a 40% reduction in overall reporting time.
Data Standardization: Leverage Power Query to standardize financial control data across all European entities, deploying a unified framework aiming for a 30% reduction in control exceptions.
Strategic Deliverable: Develop, test, and launch an automated, AI-assisted Controlling Closing Note tool to be utilized by all participating European entities.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for agile, tech-savvy, and highly analytical minds who want to redefine what finance looks like in the modern retail era.

Academic Background: Master’s degree (or final-year student status) in Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Business Engineering, or a highly quantitative field.
Analytical Mindset: Excellent numerical skills with an innate ability to translate raw, complex data into actionable strategic recommendations.
Technical Savvy & AI Curiosity:
Practical familiarity with Power BI and Power Query (building data pipelines, modeling, and dashboard design) is highly valued.
Strong interest or experience in leveraging Generative AI tools (prompt engineering for finance, automated workflows via Microsoft/Google/Anthropic AI suites).
Business Partnering Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to confidently present financial insights to non-financial stakeholders (such as Marketing Directors and Tech Teams).
ROI & Profitability Orientation: A natural „ROI Mindset”—driven to maximize efficiency, protect gross margins, and understand the core levers of a corporate P&L.
Language Skills: Professional proficiency in English and Polish is required.

Are you ready to join an exciting adventure? We think you are! 😎 

Kickstart your career at L’Oréal! Our SeedZ Management Trainee Program offers a unique opportunity to lead impactful projects, gain cross-functional experience, and accelerate your development within a world-leading beauty company. 🚀

Discover the rules and apply for the upcoming 2026/2027 edition of the L’Oréal SeedZ program!🔥

🌟Some of the perks of joining L’Oréal SeedZ are:    

• • You will begin your one-year SeedZ journey in April/May 2026
  • Customized rotations, experiences, and learning programs for your area of expertise. The objective of the rotations is to learn from other functions and divisions, so you land in your future role fully prepared.
  • Significant exposure to our leadership team to help you build your network and develop professionally towards your goal.
  • Being part of our L’Oréal SeedZ community and interacting with other management trainees.
  • Rich e-learning package.
  • Attractive benefit package including sports card, private health care, life insurance, pension package, and internal boutique with a discount, and product allocations.
  • Diversity & Inclusion: L’Oréal promotes equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. We prevent discrimination and harassment of any kind based on gender, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, origin, or disability. We walk the talk every day when it comes to Diversity & Inclusion.