Senior Finance Analyst (UKPP) - 12 month FTC

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

Due to an internal promotion, we now have an extremely exciting Fixed-Term opportunity for a Senior Finance Analyst to join the UK & Pure Play (UKPP) team. If you enjoy business partnering with stakeholders across the business to provide value-add financial analysis that has a direct impact on the bottom line, then this is the role for you!

The UK and Pure Play region is on an exciting journey delivering on our strategy in a fast-passed and rapidly growing environment. Therefore, we are looking for an experienced and qualified finance analyst with a commercial mindset that can support with this.

The Senior Finance Analyst reports into the Senior Finance Manager for UKPP and is expected to be a key contributor for any financial metrics associated to the region. You will act as a key business partner to support in developing and delivering budgets, forecasts, business cases, and ad-hoc financial analysis. Along with responsibility for month-end reporting.

As a Senior Finance Analyst you will

•      Lead the budget and forecasting process of retail sales to net sales, working closely with commercial teams and demand planning for inputs
•      Work closely with the Retail teams to forecast retail staffing costs for doors within the UKPP region
•      Deliver month end actuals for both revenue, retail Staffing and operational costs, ensuring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. This will involve working closely with the newly created shared services function (SSC) reviewing all postings to ensure accuracy
•      Prepare month-end commentary and analysis for actuals vs budget/forecast for revenue to gross margin, retail staffing, and costs
•      Create, identify, and communicate risks and opportunities to forecast, and maintain a schedule for working with and challenging teams on finding optimum levels for efficient use of resources
•      Preparation of weekly sell-in sell-out (SISO) reports, actively participating in weekly SISO meetings to understand, challenge and identify monthly sales performance for the UKPP region
•      Actively contribute to the development of new business opportunities through business case process
•      Support on post-investment appraisals and ROI’s for commercial initiatives approved via the business casing process to evaluate impact
•      Ad hoc analysis to support the Senior Finance Manager UKPP

About you

•      Qualified (or approaching qualification) – CIMA, ACCA, ACA with proven experience, ideally in an industry role
•      Knowledge of UK accounting standards is essential
•      Management of month-end processes experience essential
•      Management of FP&A processes experience essential
•      Commercial and analytical mindset
•      Advanced excel skills (XLOOKUP, Pivot tables, Sum If, Indirect etc.) and the ability to excel build models from scratch
•      Good interpersonal and communication skills, having the confidence to communicate clearly with senior management and challenge commercial teams
•      Flexible and proactive; able to drive improvements through to completion and thrive in a fast-paced environment
•      Positive ‘can-do’ attitude
•      Ability to work under pressure and be deadline driven

Preferred (Not Required):

•      Experience with ANAPLAN, Looker, NetSuite
•      Retail/FMCG with eCommerce experience is highly desirable

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves
• We're a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
• Bring your fury friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!
  

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

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