Finance Industrial Placement 2027

L'Oréal; Greater London; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

L'Oréal UK is offering a Finance Intern position as part of our early-career track. You will handle genuine business challenges from day one, contributing to profitability and financial planning. This placement is designed to develop your analytical and commercial acumen within a supportive team.

You will gain hands-on experience across budgeting, performance tracking, and cross-functional collaboration, while building skills that prepare you for future leadership roles in beauty and finance.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a university degree with an Industrial Placement Year
• Strong numerical and analytical abilities
• Proactive, eager to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Tracking performance: sales, market trends and brand profitability.
• Budgeting: monitor monthly spend and forecast costs.
• Analysing data: extract financial metrics for actionable insights.
• Collaborating: work with Marketing and Sales on ROI assessments

Skills

Initiative

Problem solving

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Numerical skills

Autonomy

Education

Second year student with Industrial Placement Year

Job description

Kickstart your career

An internship is your best gateway to a career with us, where you will drive real impact and experience accelerated growth. We invest in interns who bring learning agility, true potential, and a hunger to challenge. No bench-warming here, you will own real projects from day one, contribute work the team relies on, learn fast, and develop your skills.

More than having a cool line on your CV that makes your profile stand out, you’ll gain confidence and skills that will serve you for many years. Also, around 70% of our junior jobs are filled from our youth programme pool e.g. interns and apprentices. It truly is your best gateway to a career with us!

Skills you'll sharpen here

• Adapted Communication
• Cooperation
• Creative Thinking
• Critical Thinking
• Self-Awareness
• Self-Growth

As well as these, L'Oréal employees are upksilled in AI fluency, data fluency, and critical thinking.

What does being an intern here mean?

Consider this your best entry point to a career with us.

We're not just looking for interns, we're scouting for future leaders. Show us what you've got, we're taking notes.

Forget fetching coffee.

Here, "empowerment" means real autonomy, meaningful projects, and a team that expects your ideas, in addition to your questions.

We're not looking for beauty experts,

we're looking for challengers with learning agility and a fresh perspective. Your job is to push boundaries, not just blend in.

Your work here won't just fill an internship report.

You'll work on actual business challenges, the kind that keep us ahead in the game.

For a company like L'Oréal, financial agility and strategic investment are at the core of our sustainable growth. Managing the performance of our 40 global brands is a challenge that takes deep analytical thinking and business acumen. As a Finance Intern, you’ll join our dynamic teams to help drive profitability and shape the financial future of beauty in the UK.

Day-to-day, you may be:

• Tracking performance: monitoring sales, market trends, and brand profitability.
• Budgeting: tracking monthly spend, forecasting costs, and identifying savings.
• Analysing data: extracting financial metrics to relay actionable business insights.
• Collaborating: partnering with Marketing and Sales to evaluate promotional ROI.

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• A sense of initiative and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to partner effectively with non-finance teams
• The ability to meet tight deadlines under pressure, especially during key financial periods
• Proactivity and an eye for financial efficiency and process improvement
• Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy with data
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills balanced with business curiosity
• The ability to work autonomously

You are...

In your second year at university on a course that includes an Industrial Placement Year (if you have already graduated, please check out our graduate roles instead!).

What's In It For You

• A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential!
• Real responsibility from day 1, there's no sitting on the sidelines at L'Oréal.
• An environment where people of every background are accepted, can speak up, and thrive!
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger through our societal/environmental causes.

We're committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant.