- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Mid-Level
- Department
- Finance, Accounting & Revenue Management
- Posted
- Oct 13, 2026
About Estée Lauder Companies
The Estée Lauder Companies is a global leader in prestige beauty, founded in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder and built on an enduring belief in creativity, high-touch service, and entrepreneurial spirit. As an employer, the Group offers talent the scale of an international house with the energy of distinctive brands across skincare, makeup, fragrance, and hair care. Its culture values innovation, inclusion, learning, and responsible growth, inviting professionals to shape consumer experiences from laboratory to counter, digital platform to boardroom. Employees join a purpose-led organization where heritage, artistry, and scientific excellence meet to define the future of luxury beauty.
Estée Lauder Companies seeks a Finance Business Partner in Copenhagen to steer financial performance across a Nordic brand cluster, partner with senior commercial leaders and lead planning, forecasting, ROI analysis and reporting. The role combines operational ownership with strategic exposure and offers broad development potential.
Role & Responsibilities
- Drive and co-own financial performance across assigned business areas, ensuring delivery against growth and profitability targets.
- Partner with Brand Directors and Commercial leadership to challenge assumptions, shape decisions and influence prioritisation.
- Lead financial planning cycles, including budgets, forecasts and long-range plans, aligned with strategic and commercial priorities.
- Deliver forward-looking analysis to identify risks and opportunities and translate insights into clear actions that drive performance.
- Challenge investment decisions and trade-offs to support optimal resource allocation and strong return on investment.
- Promote an ROI mindset across commercial and marketing investments, including follow-up on performance and outcomes.
- Ensure financial transparency and robustness by validating key drivers, assumptions and cost structures.
- Prepare executive-level materials, including clear and compelling PowerPoint presentations, to support decision-making.
- Improve financial processes, tools and ways of working, focusing on effectiveness, discipline and simplification.
- Collaborate with Nordic, EUKEM and Global teams to ensure alignment and high-quality, reliable reporting.
- Act as a trusted co-pilot to Brand Directors, Commercial leadership and the Nordic Finance Director, steering performance and key business decisions.
- Own financial performance across the assigned brand cluster, ensuring transparency into drivers, risks and opportunities.
- Lead core financial processes, challenge assumptions, validate performance and drive continuous improvement.
- Work with the Nordic General Manager and cross-functional leadership to communicate financial insights and translate them into value-creating actions.
Qualifications
- Strong experience in P&L management, planning and performance analysis.
- Proven ability to influence and constructively challenge stakeholders, including senior business leaders.
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to balance growth and profitability trade-offs.
- Ability to work autonomously and operate comfortably amid ambiguity.
- Experience working in a complex, international matrix organisation.
- Strong experience producing executive-ready PowerPoint presentations and translating complex analysis into clear, actionable narratives.
- Advanced Excel and SAP or similar systems.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate financial insights into business actions.
- Fluent in English.
- Proactive, commercially driven finance professional with a strong, thoughtful point of view.
- Comfortable combining hands-on execution with strategic thinking.
- Confident engaging stakeholders across all levels.
- Curious, analytical and solution-oriented, with a focus on impact.
- Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Motivated to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborative team player who shares knowledge and contributes to collective team success.
Skills
Experience
5 years’ experience in FP&A, commercial finance or business partnering.
Workplace
The role is situated in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark.
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Culture
The Estée Lauder Companies fosters a collaborative, inclusive workplace where creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and a passion for prestige beauty are deeply valued. As a global house of distinctive brands, it offers employees an environment that encourages innovation, professional growth, and a shared commitment to excellence and consumer inspiration.
About Cerulean
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