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