Manager, Finance

The Role:

Reporting to the AVP, Finance the Finance Manager is responsible for performing duties related to the finance functions for Charlotte Tilbury Beauty North America (US+ Canada). This role will partner with various North America Business functions and Local/Global Finance teams in ensuring a timely and accurate forecast/budgets preparation, month end close, various analysis, cost controlling and preparation of useful financial reports. The role will contribute towards building and developing a robust finance function to support continued growth of the North America business.

Role Accountabilities:

Business Partnerships:

• Provide financial support to various functions: Marketing (Skin + Color categories), PR, Visual Merchandising, Store Design, Tech, HR, Commercial, Customer Care, Supply Chain, Facilities, and others
• Prepare business cases for new marketing investments/initiatives and perform postmortem analysis of actual results
• Proactive analysis of all operating expenditures to influence decision making and identify R&O’s
• Monitor and analyze monthly actual performance versus the latest Forecast/Budget and scrutinize results and deviations of spend against plan
• Identify and perform ROI/ROAs analysis on various OPEX/CAPEX investments
• Introduce and instill ringfence initiatives across various budgets to ensure budget EBITDA delivery
• Prepare and facilitate monthly actual results reviews to Senior Leadership Team
• Lead annual pricing reviews for North America and assigned new markets; work in tandem with Global Product Portfolio Manager to assess pricing suggestions relative to all other regions.

Budget/forecast:

• Work in collaboration with stakeholders to facilitate process of OPEX budgeting and forecasting in adherence with top-down targets with emphasis on phasing accuracy and strategic priorities
• Ensure stakeholder adherence to budget/forecast timetables for submissions
• Maintain expense trackers to reflect up to date spend trends
• Ownership of forecast data load into Anaplan

Month End and Reporting:

• Ensuring timely and accurate completion of the month end close process for assigned areas of responsibilities
• Deliver various month end accruals, analysis, schedules and reporting for assigned areas of responsibilities
• Drive accountability w/ budget owners on PO cycle and aged accruals to ensure accuracy of expense recording, coding, and phasing
• Month end P&L commentary of assigned areas of responsibilities
• Manage the preparation of financial reports and decks, including functional reporting for local leadership
• Identify, manage and track risks and opportunities across the North American business for weekly reporting
• Anaplan and NetSuite power user

Reporting Relationships: AVP, Finance

Salary: $105,000-$115,000

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance
• Finance/ FP&A experience of 5+ years required
• Extensive business partnering, financial reporting and month end experience
• Motivated self-starter with ability to multi-task in a very fast-paced start-up environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interface comfortably at all levels both internally and externally
• Must be detailed-oriented and organized
• Advanced Excel skills and financial systems savviness (financial modeling skills highly preferred)
• Prior experience w/ NetSuite and Anaplan preferred
• Record of process improvements
• Flexible & adaptable to changing priorities
• Affinity for beauty and retail

Benefits

• Generous staff discount to use on all products
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Commuter Benefits (Pre-tax)
• Flex Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) with Company match
• Paid Time Off
• Birthday PTO