ABOUT THE WELLA COMPANY
Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.
Wella Company is one of the world's leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.
For additional information about the Wella Company please visit www.wellacompany.com
THE ROLE
- We are seeking a highly motivated and a very passionate individual for a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager at Wella Company. The FP&A Manager will be handling end to end budget and forecasting process to facilitate decision making and support future business strategies.
- The role will involve strong commercial ownership and accountability for business performance, partnering closely with Sales and Marketing to enable revenue growth, margin improvement, and sustainable profitability across channels
- The individual needs to demonstrate a true business‑partnering mindset and provide finance support to the business through deep‑dive analysis, standard reporting, and performance tracking across customers and channels, translating financial insights into actionable recommendations
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure Monthly P&L closing in line with Forecasts
- Lead, Control and monitor Key Cost buckets like Trade Spends & Brand Spends
- Provide detailed commentary of key business results on a monthly basis and perform root cause analysis for key movements
- Monitoring the key customer balances and act as a SPOC for queries from Customers on revenue and credit
- Ideate and Develop reporting dashboards for senior management
- Act as a finance business partner in new customer acquisition and Profitability Analysis
- Operational responsibility for all budget uploads and ensuring reporting systems are accurately and timely updated.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Strong experience in Commercial Finance and Financial Analysis (mandatory) in FMCG environment (preferred), with exposure to revenue, margin, and profitability drivers
- 5-7 years of relevant experince
- Accounting knowledge with strong understanding of basics of book-keeping. (Mandatory)
- Great stakeholder management with the ability to influence commercial decisions through data‑driven insights
- Expertise in various IT systems Hyperion and SAP is mandatory (SAP/ Micro strategy)
- Cross‑functional understanding of work processes between Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, HR, with the ability to partner on commercial and growth initiative
- Process oriented, very focused and rigorous
- Experience managing P&L and strong understanding of budgets (mandatory), including tracking performance against plans and forecasts
- Strong organizational, project management and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial and hands-on spirit – Need to have demonstrated ownership in previous roles and be a self-starter
- Innovative thinker, ability to go for the extra-mile
- We are a small team and hence you should have a willingness to work in a small team with ability to lend helping hand whenever needed beyond your role.
- Passion for Beauty!
EEO OPPORTUNITIES
We offer equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, colour, national origin, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We strongly believe that cultivating a diverse workplace gives a company strength. The combination of unique skills, abilities, experiences, and backgrounds creates an environment that produces extraordinary results.
