Manager, Business Analytics — FP&A & Forecasting Leader

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

e.l.f. Beauty is seeking a Manager, Business Analytics in the UK to optimize forecasting, reporting, and decision support for the FP&A function.

You will drive monthly sales and margin forecasting, support the close process, and deliver insightful variance analyses. You will partner with cross-functional teams on pricing and costing, develop robust dashboards in Power BI/Tableau, and advance planning tools like Vena, Adaptive, Anaplan, or Oracle Analytics Cloud.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of financial analysis experience.
• 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.
• Strong working knowledge of FP&A, forecasting, and accounting concepts.
• Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.).
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience with Vena or an equivalent SaaS FP&A planning tool.

Responsibilities

• Support all aspects of monthly sales and margin forecasting processes on the FP&A team.
• Participate in the monthly financial close process, researching sales and margin vs forecast and prior year.
• Provide management reporting and variance analysis to explain trends.
• Lead or participate in the S&OP process and challenge assumptions.
• Collaborate with partners on pricing, costing, and ad hoc analytics.
• Develop and optimize reporting to clearly convey forecasts and results.
• Assist in user training and model documentation to drive tool adoption.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Attention to detail

Education

Undergraduate degree in finance or economics

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel modeling

SAP S/4HANA

Vena

Adaptive/Anaplan/Oracle Analytics Cloud

Job description

e.l.f. Beauty is seeking a Manager, Business Analytics in the UK to optimize forecasting, reporting, and decision support for the FP&A function.

You will drive monthly sales and margin forecasting, support the close process, and deliver insightful variance analyses. You will partner with cross-functional teams on pricing and costing, develop robust dashboards in Power BI/Tableau, and advance planning tools like Vena, Adaptive, Anaplan, or Oracle Analytics Cloud.