Cover - Guerlain

Consultant, FPA & Controlling, TEMP

Published on 08.27.2025

Guerlain

Finance

Start date: 01.09.2025

Reference: GUER04776

  • Place of employment :

    New York, United States

  • Contrat type :

    Temporary Job

  • Required experience :

    Minimum 10 years

  • Work mode :

    Full Time

Position

Company Description

Since 1828, Guerlain - an iconic luxury French Perfume & Cosmetics brand, part of the LVMH Group - has explored, innovated and perfected its Fragrance, Skincare and Makeup thanks to its daring creators of mythical creations with timeless know-how. All with Nature and Art as inspiration and the Culture of Beauty as a signature.

In Fragrance, Guerlain Master Perfumer, Thierry Wasser, embodies the fifth generation of Guerlain Perfumers. As a figure within the contemporary fragrance world, Thierry Wasser has put his name to many of the House’s creations. He contributes to an olfactory legacy of some 1100 fragrances and explores the world in search of the most exclusive raw materials.

In Makeup, newly appointed Guerlain Creative Director of Makeup, Violette, seemed destined to join the house synonymous with French beauty and constant innovation. With her creativity, Parisian chic and eye for high standards, she knows better than anyone else that makeup is nothing if not the art of bringing out the beauty in each and every one of us.

The House is committed to preserving biodiversity, innovating sustainably, acting for the climate and creating a positive social impact. Above all, Guerlain seeks to protect one of Nature’s most precious wonders: bees, sentinels of the environment and symbol of the House.

Guerlain invites you today to join its North America teams.

Guerlain is part of the LVMH Group

 

OBJECTIVE

Provide Financial Planning, Analysis, and Controlling for Guerlain’s US-based business.

This is a Temporary role lasting 5-6months.

Job responsibilities

 

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE – REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

Internal

  • Reports to: VP, Finance and operationally to brand General Manager
  • Positions Supervised: None
  • Peers: Other LVMH Directors/Managers, direct partner to Sr Mgr Sales Development
  • Internal Partners: All departments

External

  • External Partners: Vendors, Suppliers, Agencies, Finance team (Paris)
  • Act as a partner to the local General Manager.
  • Partner daily with VP Omnichannel Sales to monitor business trends and identify risks & opportunities
  • Proactively monitor yearly and monthly financial targets in collaboration with the team.
  • Construct and monitor budgets (Revised 1), three-year plan (2027-2029) and forecasts (sales outlooks and landing).
  • Provide accurate financial information to support management in their decision-making process.
  • Provide monthly analysis on financial risks & opportunities by assessing current trends with key performance indicators.
  • Lead monthly closing for the company.
  • Perform detailed budget vs. actual variance analyses for P&L lines and ledger accounts monthly.
  • Compute accruals with logical and explainable back-ups for each month-end closing.
  • Analyze balance sheet accounts and formalize reconciliations to make sure our accounts are clean.
  • Learn and understand components and processes involved in each P&L line.
  • Challenge costs and allocations of costs.
  • Report financial information to France headquarters in a timely manner.
  • Validate the local income statement and balance sheet.
  • Clear account receivable balances every month.
  • Perform other financial analysis related to the current business or related to new projects.
  • Work closely with the Business Partnership Center: Accounting, IT, Forecasting, Purchasing, Customer Service, etc.
  • Approve internal ePO and purchase orders.
  • Code invoices and control invoicing flows.
  • Keep approval workflows up to date for AX and Medius systems.
  • Effectively manage relationship and communication (e.g. tariffs updates, etc.) with HQ based in Paris.
  • Assist on related ad hoc reports/projects.

Conduct all other job-related activities.

Profile

  • Relevant experience, preferably in FP&A in the luxury, retail, and/or beauty industry
  • A consistent track record for high accuracy with detail orientation & data reporting precision.
  • Ability to work in a time sensitive, accurate environment.
  • Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
  • Self-management skills with the strategic agility to ensure alignment and drive execution.
  • Entrepreneurial drive
  • Ability to take initiative and work independently.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and to exercise discretion and professionalism with sensitive information.
  • Ability to deliver information in a clear, concise manner.
  • Ability to communicate effectively.
  • Ability to use data to assemble a narrative.

Additional information

LVMH Inc. uses the published salary range as a guideline to provide our employees with market competitive pay while allowing for flexibility to recognize and reward various levels of expertise, performance and tenure.

While the published salary range is a good faith reflection of the targeted salary level for the position, LVMH Inc. reserves the right to pay outside of the published salary range of  $90,000 - $100,000 USD.

This job description is intended to cover the core accountabilities of the position and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

GUERLAIN
MAISON

It all began with Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain. A perfumer, chemist, inventor and researcher, the House’s founder settled up his first boutique in the heart of Paris, at 42, rue de Rivoli. The address quickly became an essential destination for dandies and elegant women. The House’s reputation at the courts of Europe peaked when in 1853, for the marriage of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie, Pierre-François-Pascal created his Eau de Cologne Impériale, which he gave to the young bride as a wedding present.Since then, five successive generations of Guerlain perfumers have held the House’s creative reins. Today, Thierry Wasser is the heir to an olfactory legacy of some 1100 fragrances and the intrepid leader of future projects, exploring the world in search of the most exclusive raw materials.
The art of perfume bottles by Guerlain © Pol Baril

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