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

• 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

• 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

Salary : $105,000 - $115,000