Junior HR Cost Controller (Fixed Term Contract - 6 months) 

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A Day in the Life

As a Junior HR Cost Controller based in our Milan office, you will be a key player supporting both our Human Resources and Finance teams. This role is central to monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on our personnel costs, providing the insights that help our leaders make strategic decisions about our most valuable asset: our people.

You will be responsible for:

• Budget & Forecasting: Assisting in the preparation of the annual HR budget and periodic financial forecasts, ensuring accuracy and strategic alignment.
• Financial Closing: Supporting the monthly closing process by managing payroll accruals, ensuring all costs are correctly reflected in our accounts.
• Analysis & Monitoring: Proactively tracking actual personnel costs against budgets, identifying and explaining variances, and anticipating potential risks and opportunities.
• Reporting & Visualization: Producing monthly HR dashboards with key metrics and creating ad-hoc reports to support specific business cases for HR and Finance leadership.

We Are Looking For

We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and a meticulous approach, who is eager to have an impact in a dynamic corporate environment. You are a great match if you possess:

• Analytical Mindset: A sharp ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and translate them into actionable business insights.
• Financial Acumen: A solid understanding of controlling principles, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Attention to Detail: Precision and thoroughness in managing financial data and ensuring its integrity across various systems.
• Systems Proficiency: Strong command of Excel is essential, and an aptitude for learning and optimizing systems like SAP is highly valued.
• Effective Communication: The ability to clearly present financial information and data-driven stories to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

What’s In It For You

• A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
• Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal
• An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal /environmental causes to make concrete difference

Who We Are

L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.

Join our 2,000+ strong global HR community and contribute to making L’Oréal one of the most inclusive, innovative and inspiring People Driven companies. With us, you'll foster a culture of individual care and DEI, build a skills-based organization, leverage technology for impactful people experiences and enable the Group's transformations. Ready for global impact? Explore our diverse and unique career paths Talent Acquisition, Learning, Rewards, HR data, HR tech, Transformation, and more.

Our Finance and Legal Teams are organized in an agile and transversal structure to combine a high level of expertise with a deep understanding of business stakes. Our teams have seized the full potential of the Data and the Fintech revolution to reinvent a real-time, highly reactive management of performance that encompasses all areas of value creation: Data, New Online and Services Business models, as well as Sustainability.

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 for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.