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, Qualifications And Personal Attributes
- Master’s degree in Finance or Business Administration
- 10+ years as a Finance Leader in multinational and large-scale companies; experience in retail preferred
- Strong analytical and financial skills
- Proven success as a team leader
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to influence at various levels
- Dynamic, agile, proactive, problem solver, team player
- Fluent in English; French is a plus
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills are mandatory
- Expert knowledge of SAP & Power BI is a plus
What You Will Find Here
- A community where authenticity is embraced, and our differences fuel our collective spirit
- A culture of empowerment, learning & growth, providing tools, space, and opportunities to learn, innovate, and lead
- Work that brings fulfillment—whether delighting clients daily or inspiring our industry, every action makes a difference
Join us and belong to something beautiful