Manager, Finance

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Job description

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

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