Category Finance Analyst Operations

Startops; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading beauty brand as a Category Finance Analyst, responsible for high-quality monthly reporting and analysis to guide strategic decisions. This role requires strong commercial acumen and analytical skills, with an opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Being part of a team that directly influences financial strategy promises an exciting career path.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Inclusive parental leave policy

Pension and life assurance

Wellness benefits like Medicash

Dog-friendly workplace days

Generous product discount

Qualifications

• Part-qualified or starting professional qualification journey (ACA/CIMA/ACCA).
• Strong analytical and commercial skills required.
• Comfortable collaborating with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management reports and Board packs.
• Build and maintain financial models using large data sets.
• Support budget and business planning processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Strong Excel skills

Commercial skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

Part-qualified in ACA/CIMA/ACCA

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Anaplan

Looker

Job description

Category Finance Analyst

Assist in preparing and analyzing category financial reports for strategic decision-making

Location: ["London"]

Job Tags: Operations

About The Role

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionized 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 fueled 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 have an exciting opportunity for a Category Finance Analyst to join our Group FP&A team here at Charlotte Tilbury, reporting into our Senior Finance Manager for Category. You'll be responsible for producing high quality monthly reporting and ad hoc analysis which will be used by commercial and finance stakeholders across the business.

As a Category Finance Analyst You Will

• Prepare high quality, insightful monthly management reporting and Board packs – highlighting key trends, explaining variances to forecast and prior year to enable actionable insights.
• Build and maintain robust financial models using large, complex data sets to evaluate category and product level performance, whilst ensuring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Support with the budget, reforecasting and 5-year business planning process to view Categories across the full P&L, collaborating with regional teams to align on inputs and assumptions
• Partner with the Data team to develop Looker reports and dashboards to analyse performance of retail sales trends and KPIs across categories and key products
• Support the development and refinement of Category P&Ls which can be used across the business to drive decision making
• Identify opportunities to streamline reporting processes, automate manual tasks, and enhance the quality of insights delivered.
• Ad-hoc analysis to support the Senior Finance Manager, Head of Finance and Finance Director

About You

• Part-qualified or looking to embark on your professional qualification journey (ACA/CIMA/ACCA equivalent)
• Strong commercial and analytical skills
• Strong excel skills (Vlookups, Pivot tables, Sum If, Indirect etc) and the ability to build models from scratch from large data sets
• Experience using Microsoft PowerPoint
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, having the confidence to communicate clearly with senior management and challenge commercial teams
• Comfortable dealing with a cross section of stakeholders, both finance and non-finance
• Ability to think logically and methodically
• Positive 'can-do' attitude
• Flexible & proactive, with an eagerness to learn
• Highly organised and able to prioritise workload effectively within a scaling business
• Experience using Anaplan or Looker desirable
• Retail/FMCG experience is desirable

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.