Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Who We Are ?

Pierre Fabre is a French pharmaceutical company, pioneer in dermo-cosmetics with notably iconic brands, Avène and Klorane.

With more than 10,000 employees worldwide, the company has subsidiaries in 42 countries. In 2020, Pierre Fabre Group generated over 2,3 Billion euros in revenues.

Nature is at the heart of our approach at Pierre Fabre, to explore and innovate for health care and beauty. A company with strong values, our purpose is at the core of our commitment to inspire our work every day.

“Every time we care for a single person, we make the whole world better.”

In the expansion of our Australian subsidiary based in North Sydney, we are currently seeking candidates to fill in a

Full time

Position As

Financial Controller S1

Your Mission

As a key member of the finance leadership team, the FP&A Manager will play a strategic role in shaping the financial direction of our dermo-cosmetics and pharmaceutical operations.

This position is responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis function, ensuring robust forecasting, insightful performance analysis, and data-driven decision support. The role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams—including commercial, marketing, and supply chain—to align financial strategies with business objectives, optimize resource allocation, and support innovation and growth in a highly regulated and competitive market.

Strategic Planning & Business Partnering (40%)

• Lead annual budget, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning processes
• Collaborate with both commercial business units (PFMC an PFDC), marketing, HR and supply chain teams to align financial strategies with business goals.
• Support strategic initiatives such as product launches (NPD), new indication development, pricing strategies (price increase projection), and market expansion (brand plans financials).
• Provide financial insights to guide investment decisions and resource allocation.

Financial Analysis & Reporting / Month-End Closing (30%)

• Analyse financial performance, including sales trends, profitability (GP and GtN), margin evolution, and promotional effectiveness.
• Prepare monthly business reviews with variance analysis and executive commentary.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and identify risks and opportunities.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis to support senior management decision-making and HQ

Modelling & Decision Support (20%)

• Build and maintain financial models for scenario planning, business cases, and ROI analysis.
• Develop analysis tools, provide support to all departments with financial / business analysis, identifying trends and making recommendations.
• Evaluate portfolio optimization strategies

Process Improvement & Compliance (10%)

• Enhance FP&A tools, systems, and reporting processes and ensure continuous improvement
• Drive automation and digitalization initiatives within the finance function.
• Support internal and external audits as needed.

Who You Are ?

• Production of key reports for both business units (perimeter $70m + net sales)
• Work with big databases (100,000+ rows)
• Business, commercial analysis, provide guidance
• Support in legal, HR, audit, purchasing, supply chain and other if required
• Preparation of business plans and investments requests with calculation of ROI, payback, IRR etc. from $1k to $100k+

We are convinced that diversity is a source of fulfillment, social balance and complementarity for our employees, which is why our offers are open to all, without restriction.