Senior Manager, Finance

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the bran­d is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

The Role:

Reporting to the AVP, Finance the Senior Finance Manager is responsible for performing duties related to the finance functions for Charlotte Tilbury Beauty North America. 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 operating departments: Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Store Design, Tech, HR, Commercial, Customer Care, Supply Chain, Facilities and Local/Global Finance teams.
• Finance business partner to marketing teams for integrated business planning cycle
• 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 Risks & Opportunities
• Monitor and analyze monthly actual performance versus the latest Forecast/Budget and scrutinize results and deviations of spend against plan
• Manage cost control and conduct monthly budget meetings with departmental managers for various OPEX/Capex budgets
• 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

• 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
• Responsible for maintaining the daily flow of financial information to achieve a timely and efficient month-end and year-end close process for North America
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of P&Ls and other financial reports
• Partner with Global Finance team on intercompany transactions
• Power user of NetSuite, Looker and Anaplan ERP systems

Reporting

• Manage the preparation of all North American financial reports, including functional reporting for local leadership
• Responsible for preparation of various month-end and related decks

Requirements

Key Selection Criteria:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance
• Finance/ FP&A experience of 7-10 years required
• Extensive business partnering, financial reporting and month-end experience
• Motivated self-starter with ability to multi-task in a very fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and