Sr. Financial Analyst

About the Company

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. stands with every eye, lip, face and paw. Our deep commitment to clean, cruelty free beauty at an incredible value has fueled the success of our flagship brand e.l.f. Cosmetics since 2004 and driven our portfolio expansion. Today, our multi-brand portfolio includes e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, pioneering clean beauty brand Well People, Keys Soulcare, a groundbreaking lifestyle beauty brand created with Alicia Keys and Naturium, high-performance, biocompatible, clinically-effective and accessible skincare.

In our Fiscal year 24, we had net sales of $1 Billion and our business performance has been nothing short of extraordinary with 22 consecutive quarters of net sales growth. We are the #2 mass cosmetics brand in the US and are the fastest growing mass cosmetics brand among the top 5. Our total compensation philosophy offers every new hire competitive pay and benefits, bonus eligibility (200% of target over the last four fiscal years), equity given to every full-time employee as a part of their new hire package, flexible time off, year-round half-day Fridays, and a hybrid 3 day in office, 2 day at home work environment. We believe the combination of our unique culture, total compensation, workplace flexibility and care for the team is unmatched across not just beauty but any industry.

Position Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst, Sales & Margin, will use analytic and problem-solving skills to provide in-depth and insightful analytical support to optimize decision making at e.l.f. Cosmetics, with a primary focus on sales and margin forecasting, reporting, and analytics.

Responsibilities

- Support all aspects of monthly sales and margin forecasting processes on the FP&A team.

- Participate in the monthly financial close process partnering with accounting and operations teams to research sales and margin impacts vs forecast and prior year.  Provide management reporting and variance analysis including insightful analysis to explain trends.

- Design, build, and implement new and enhanced sales and margin forecasting processes and tools.

- Work with cross functional teams to create and optimize reporting to clearly convey sales forecasts and actual results.

- Active partipcant in the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, comfortable challenging teams on assumptions, quantifying sales risks, and opportunities for finance leadership.

- Collaborate with business partners on pricing, costing, and other ad-hoc analytics.

Qualifications

- 4+ years of financial analysis experience.

- Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or retail industry experience.

- Undergraduate degree with an emphasis in finance or economics.

- Advanced Excel modeling skills, both in building new models and streamlining existing models.

- A strong working knowledge of financial planning, forecasting, and accounting concepts.

- Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.).

- NetSuite and/or SAP S/4HANA experience.

- Experience with Vena or an equivalent SaaS FP&A planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, Oracle Analytics Cloud).

Personal Attributes and Capabilities:

- Can convert complex analyses into business insights, a strong curiosity to dig into the numbers and tell the story.

- Operates with minimal supervision and can make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently.

- Strong organization and time management skills.

- Solution orientated and innovative with the desire to bring ideas forward and get involved in all areas of the business.

- Attention to detail, high integrity, self-aware, humble.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this position. It also reflects the general details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job identified, and shall not be considered, as detailed description of all the work required inherent in the job. It is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, and it is subject to changes and exceptions at the supervisors’ discretion.

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