Finance Business Partner - Nordics

The Estée Lauder Companies is looking for a Finance Business Partner - Nordics

Are you ready to influence and challenge strategic decisions and drive business performance across a leading portfolio of prestige beauty brands?

We are looking for a high-impact Finance Business Partner to play a key role in driving profitable growth across our Nordic business. This role sits at the intersection of finance and commercial decision-making, with a strong mandate to challenge assumptions, validate performance, and ensure disciplined value creation. You will have strong exposure to senior leadership and play a critical role in shaping financial performance and business outcomes.

The Estée Lauder Companies at a glance

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, MAC, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD BEAUTY, , AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr. Jart+, and the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD.

About The Role

As Finance Business Partner, you will act as a trusted co-pilot to Brand Directors, Commercial Leadership, and the Nordic Finance Director, driving performance steering and key business decisions with a clear voice in trade-offs and prioritisation. You will take ownership of financial performance across your brand cluster, ensuring full transparency of drivers, risks, and opportunities, while combining analytical expertise with strong commercial acumen.

In this role, you will lead core financial processes while rigorously challenging assumptions, validating performance, and driving continuous improvement across the business. You will work closely with the Nordic General Manager and cross-functional leadership, ensuring financial insights are clearly understood, challenged where needed, and translated into value-creating actions.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Drive and co-own financial performance across your 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 (budget, forecasts, long-range plans), ensuring alignment with strategic and commercial priorities
• Deliver forward-looking analysis to identify risks and opportunities, translating insights into clear actions that drive performance
• Rigorously challenge investment decisions and trade-offs, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and strong return on investment
• Own and promote a strong ROI mindset across commercial and marketing investments, including follow-up on performance and outcomes
• Ensure transparency and robustness in financials by validating key drivers, assumptions, and cost structures
• Prepare executive-level materials, including clear and compelling PowerPoint presentations, to support decision-making
• Contribute to improving financial processes, tools, and ways of working, with a focus on effectiveness, discipline, and simplification
• Collaborate with Nordic, EUKEM, and Global teams, ensuring alignment and high-quality, reliable reporting

What We’re Looking For

• 5–8 years’ experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering
• 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 with the ability to balance growth vs. profitability trade-offs
• Ability to operate with autonomy and comfort in ambiguity
• Experience working in a complex, international matrix organisation
• Strong experience producing executive-ready PowerPoint presentations, translating complex analysis into clear, actionable narratives
• Advanced Excel and SAP (or similar systems)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate financial insights into business actions
• Fluent in English

Who You Are

• A proactive and commercially driven finance professional with a strong, thoughtful point of view
• Comfortable combining hands-on execution with strategic thinking
• Confident in 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
• A collaborative team player who shares knowledge and contributes to collective team success

Why This Role
This is a unique opportunity to combine operational ownership with strategic exposure, working closely with senior leadership while remaining close to the business and core finance processes.

The role offers strong development potential and broad exposure across the organisation, making it an excellent next step for someone looking to further grow their impact in finance business partnering

What We Offer

We are the global leader in prestige beauty — delighting consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. In fact, we are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 20+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout our organization is a passion for creativity and innovation — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of our founder Estée Lauder. 

Inclusion, Diversity & Equity in the core of everything we do

The Estée Lauder Companies is an equal opportunities employer. To promote a fair recruitment process, we encourage applications to exclude photos from CVs.

We actively foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equity, offering local training on topics such as unconscious bias to ensure a welcoming environment for all. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, marital status, or pregnancy.

Next Step

We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and please note that virtual interviews is part of this recruiting process.

We look forward to hearing from you!