Manager of Finance, Charlotte Tilbury
$105-115k
Makeup, skin care & beauty collection
Open for applications
Makeup, skin care & beauty collection
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$105-115k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Charlotte Tilbury has carved a niche in the cosmetics industry with its commitment to quality, buoyed by celebrity endorsements and a fondness for innovation. Founder Charlotte's strong personal brand has propelled the company's rapid ascent, while its embrace of cutting-edge technologies like augmented and virtual reality has unlocked avenues unexplored by traditional cosmetic brands.
The acquisition of Charlotte Tilbury by the fashion and beauty conglomerate, Puig, in 2020 marked a significant turning point, catalysing global expansion efforts and venturing into an emerging digital landscape like the Metaverse. Leveraging AI-based marketing solutions, the company has witnessed a remarkable 60% increase in conversion rates for its acquisition campaigns, highlighting its adeptness at staying ahead in the dynamic beauty market.
Charlotte Tilbury was acquired by Fashion and beauty conglomerate, Puig, in 2020. Since then, the company has been driving global growth and expanding into new digital frontiers (i.e. the Metaverse). Its use of AI-based marketing solutions has resulted in a 60% conversion rate increase in its acquisition campaigns. Charlotte Tilbury is well set to see consistent market growth.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Generous staff discount
- Generous product gifting
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Hybrid, flexible working
- Dog friendly office on Monday and Fridays
- Access to Tilbury Treats - discounts on everything from gym memberships to cinema tickets
- Other fabulous benefits such as life assurance, birthdays off work and pension contribution
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Charlotte Tilbury
(Founder)Spent 20 years in the fashion and beauty industry as a Creative Consultant for the top beauty brands worldwide. Was the most sought-after make-up artist in the world when she founded this company.
Demetra Pinsent
(CEO, not founder)Former Partner at McKinsey & Company. Received their M. Phil from the University of Oxford and a BA in Social Studies from Harvard University.
People progressing
Joined as Customer Service Manager in the early stages of the company, was promoted to website coordinator after 10 months, and is now Head of Digital Content.
Joined as a Junior-level producer in January 2017. She was promoted three times in 5 years, most recently to Creative Production & Project Management Director.
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