Senior Finance Analyst - Digital

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
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.

About the role
We are excited to recruit for a Senior Finance Analyst – Digital on a permanent basis, who will be a crucial member of the Digital Finance function, reporting into the Finance Manager - Digital.

The Senior Finance Analyst will be crucial in providing financial insights to support the successful growth and delivery of charlottetilbury.com global market results. The right candidate will be a finance professional with a can-do attitude, with experience in delivering accurate and timely financial support.

Business partnering is core to the success of this role, working closely with CT.com, IT and Systems functions. Along with supporting month-end, budget and forecasts for the Digital teams the role with provide financial support to the IT and Systems teams, taking responsibility for cost tracking, forecasting and business partnering.

As a Senior Finance Analyst – Digital you will

• Completing all components of month end, including owning the functions cost trackers, reviewing Shared Services postings and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Preparation of monthly reporting, including supporting the business in investigating and analysing forecast variances and providing explanations. Presenting results to the Finance Manager and Head of Finance.
• Supporting the Finance Manager to provide Group Finance with materials to support on audit requests.
• Detailed understanding of costs, being able to identify risks and opportunities and escalate them appropriately. Build a positive but challenging relationship with stakeholders to help create opportunities and efficiencies.
• Presenting a monthly update on costs and variances to the Director of Technology [IT & Systems].
• Support the Finance Manager with regular and ad-hoc requests for commentary and reporting.
• Supporting with the delivery of all Digital and Technology budgets and forecasts for revenue, OPEX and CAPEX. Ensuring outputs are accurate and within the required time frame.
• Contribute to deliver business cases and commercial analysis for promotional activity (ROIs).
• Support stakeholders in following the correct finance processes and acting as a first level approver for the functions POs.
• Support the Finance Manager in developing the finance function for Digital – developing controls, processes, and reporting.

About you

• Qualified (or approaching qualification) – CIMA, ACCA, ACA with experience ideally in an industry role.
• Knowledge of UK accounting standards is essential
• Highly organised and able to work to time pressured deadlines
• Proven experience in running month-end and forecast cycles
• Commercial and analytical mindset
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate clearly to stakeholders at different levels of seniority and with different levels of financial literacy
• Advanced excel skills (Vlookups, Pivot tables, Sum If, Indirect etc)
• Flexible & proactive, with an eagerness to learn

Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.

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 furry 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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