- Location
- London, England
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Accounting & Finance
- Seniority
- Manager
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Lever
Description
The Manager, Business Analytics will use analytic and problem-solving skills to provide in-depth and insightful analytical support to optimize decision making at e.l.f. Beauty UK Limited, with a focus on forecasting, reporting and analytics.
Responsibilities:
· Support all aspects of monthly sales and margin forecasting processes on the FP&A team.
o Participate in the monthly financial close process, researching sales and margin impacts vs forecast and prior year.
o Provide management reporting and variance analysis including insightful analysis to explain trends.
o Active participant in the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, comfortable challenging teams on assumptions, quantifying sales risks, and opportunities for finance leadership.
o Collaborate with business partners on pricing, costing, and other adhoc analytics.
· Work with cross functional teams to create and optimize reporting to clearly convey forecasts and actual results.
· Participate in user training and model documentation to improve expertise and expand the adoption of planning and reporting tools across the organization.
Qualifications:
· 4+ years of financial analysis experience.
· Consumer Packaged Goods (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.
· A strong working knowledge of financial planning, forecasting, and accounting concepts.
· Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.).
· SAP S/4HANA experience.
· Experience with Vena or an equivalent SaaS FP&A planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, Oracle Analytics Cloud).
Personal Attributes and Capabilities:
· Can convert complex analyses into business insights, a strong curiosity to dig into the numbers and tell the story.
· Operates with minimal supervision and can make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently.
· Strong organization and time management skills.
· Solution orientated and innovative with the desire to bring ideas forward and get involved in all areas of the business.
· Attention to detail, high integrity, self-aware, humble.
