2025 L’Oréal USA Finance (TAMPA, FLORIDA) Summer Internship - Undergraduate

2025 L’Oréal USA Summer Internship Program – Finance (TAMPA, FLORIDA) – Undergraduate

At L'Oréal, whether you are an intern, manager, or senior leader, the most valuable asset we have is you. Your unique sense of curiosity, creative mindset, and desire to innovate are what we expect you to bring with you every day.  

The L’Oréal USA Summer Internship Program is a paid, 11-week experience where you will be fully integrated into the day-to-day activities of a team while also leading your own, individual strategic project to discover what it is truly like to develop a career at the world’s #1 Beauty company. We are committed to giving our interns the space to explore, to have full time employee responsibilities, present their own insights to senior management, and to become future leaders. At the end of the summer, you will present your project to senior leadership for the opportunity to be considered for a full-time return offer into our Management Trainee program. 

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so it is highly encouraged to apply sooner rather than later before the September 30, 2024 deadline. We encourage students of diverse backgrounds to apply, including, but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender expression, LGBTQ+, military status, and people with disabilities. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Dive into the world of finance through day-to-day tasks like category analysis, process improvement, systems enhancement, and more
• Generate and analyze financial data using a variety of systems to recommend profitable business strategies for L’Oréal brands
• Monitor actual business results vs. budgets, trends, and forecasts
• Evaluate the ROI of strategic business decisions to effectively manage brand Profit & Loss statements
• Provide financial support across functions like Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Manufacturing
• Own an individual project and/or group project with strategic business impact that you present to senior leaders

Who You Are: 

• Minimum Requirements:
  • Currently enrolled in a 4-year college or university pursuing a bachelor’s degree with an expected graduation between December 2025 – July 2026 
  • Able to start working fulltime starting September 2026 upon graduation with your bachelor’s degree
  • Legally authorized to work in the US on a fulltime, permanent, and ongoing basis without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
  • Willing to relocate to any USA-based office that has a summer internship opportunity, including Tampa, FL.

• Stand Out Qualifications:
  • Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics with a total GPA of 3.0 or higher
  • Available to work the entirety of the 11-week summer internship program in 2025
  • Showcased ability to work in a professional, dynamic environment through previous internship or relevant work experience. This includes part-time work, work study, side-gigs, freelancing, volunteering, summer work, or internships
  • Demonstrated leadership ability and interest in Finance through your academics, extra-curricular activities, or professional/volunteer work
  • Established self-awareness, in terms of understanding your own culture, identity, biases, prejudices, power, privilege and stereotypes

• Skills Key to Success in Finance:
  • Strong attention to detail analytically and are result oriented
  • Can take initiative and manage projects end-to-end with cross-functional partners
  • Ability to tell stories from numbers through data analysis, lifting insights from dashboards, and financial modeling
  • Ensure accurate forecasting by building strategic reports
  • Accounting knowledge
  • Understanding business impact and advising business partners through strong communication skills and building relationships with team members and stakeholders

The Program: 

• This is a paid internship opportunity. Housing assistance is provided on an individual basis based on eligibility per our L'Oréal Relocation Policy.
• You will be placed onto a team within one of the three areas of finance:
  • Brand or commercial profit and loss (P&L) management and analysis involving interaction with various functional areas such as Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Purchasing
  • Overall L’Oréal USA financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis involving interaction with various US divisions and Paris headquarters
• Manufacturing, Supply Chain or Corporate Operations rotation providing financial analysis, consolidation and strategic support for production and distribution in the U.S.
• All interns will be paired with a mentor and a buddy to help guide you through your internship
• Professional development & social programming is an integral part of your internship experience to understand our culture. From networking events to trainings, your calendar will always be full!
• There are many perks to being a summer intern, but two standout ones are access to our company store that has steep discounts on L’Oreal products and our Summer Friday program – every Friday during your internship is a half day!
• Our summer internship is the primary path for consideration into L’Oréal’s full-time Finance Management Trainee Program upon graduation and is based on overall performance

Salary Range: $22-$26.50 

ABOUT L’OREAL 

Innovation has fueled L'Oréal’s business for more than 100 years and we will rely on our culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to help us continually evolve. L'Oréal’s dynamic culture provides its employees with entrepreneurial freedom and opportunities to drive transformation across its €29.87B business, encompassing over 35 brands, around the globe. In the US, we have 12,000 employees working collaboratively across 14 states to build leading edge technologies, launch highly personalized products, reimagine consumer experiences, and develop creative solutions to reduce our environmental footprint. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status. 
  
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application for a recognized disability under applicable law, please email USApplicationAccommodation@support.lorealusa.com. Please note this email will only respond to specific requests for assistance completing the application as a request for accommodation for a disability. All others will not be considered. 

Get an insider's look at what it's really like to intern at L'Oréal, and discover how our programs can launch your career. Register for our exclusive masterclass, "Your Future Starts Now: L'Oréal USA Early Careers Masterclass" on September 11th at 6:30-8:00pm EST!