Financial Performance Lead

Salary Range:

All Compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience.

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You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As an Financial Performance Lead, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

About the job:

As a Financial Performance Lead, you support strategic and operational decision-making across Marketing, Trade and Sales by providing financial insights and performance analysis. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you help evaluate investments, monitor business performance and contribute to profitable growth across a diverse portfolio of consumer healthcare brands.

In this role, you will gain broad exposure to commercial and financial decision-making while collaborating with stakeholders across the business. You will help translate financial data into actionable business recommendations while ensuring sound financial governance and performance management.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Business Partnering & Performance Steering

• Partner with Marketing, eCommerce and Sales teams to support business decisions through financial analysis and insights.
• Monitor business performance and identify risks and opportunities related to commercial investments, operating expenses and profitability.
• Prepare analyses, P&L simulations and recommendations for business reviews, product launches and commercial initiatives.

Planning, Forecasting & Reporting

• Support budgeting and forecasting activities for marketing investments, headcount, personnel costs, commercial spend and other operating expenses.
• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards and performance analyses to support business steering.

Financial Controlling & Governance

• Perform monthly closing activities in collaboration with Accounting and Shared Service Center teams.
• Monitor accruals and ensure accurate tracking of marketing and other commercial expenditures.
• Analyze performance against budget and forecast, identify variances and support corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial policies and accounting standards

About you

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics or a related field.
• 2-3 years of professional experience in Finance, Controlling, FP&A or Business Analysis.
• Strong analytical mindset and interest in understanding business performance.
• Ability to translate data into clear insights and recommendations.
• Collaborative and proactive approach with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and managing multiple priorities.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; Power BI experience is strongly preferred.
• Fluent in English, German is preferred.

Opella values diversity in all its forms and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can belong and excel. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Why join Opella?

This is an opportunity to help shape the future of employee experience and digital HR capabilities in a fast-growing global organization. You will work with modern technologies, influence strategic business decisions, and partner with colleagues across multiple functions and geographies to deliver meaningful impact.

About Us

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.

Our mission is to bring health in people's hands by making self-care as simple as it should be, for over half a billion consumers worldwide.

At the core of this mission are our 100+ loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, 13 manufacturing sites, and 4 science and innovation centres. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world's most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale, and Mucosolvan.

As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and a healthier planet.

Learn more at www.opella.com

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