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.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of financial analysis experience
- Consumer packaged goods or retail industry experience
- Undergraduate degree with an emphasis in finance or economics
- Advanced Microsoft Excel modeling skills, including building and streamlining models
- Strong knowledge of financial planning, forecasting, and accounting concepts
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau
- SAP S/4HANA experience
- Experience with Vena or an equivalent SaaS FP&A planning tool, such as Adaptive, Anaplan, or Oracle Analytics Cloud
What We Do
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. stands with every eye, lip, face and paw. Celebrating the beauty of every eye, lip and face is fundamental to our DNA. It’s in our name and inspires us as a company. We are committed to creating a culture internally – and in the world around us – where all individuals are encouraged to express their truest selves, are empowered to succeed and where we do the right thing for people, the planet and animals. Our deep commitment to inclusive, accessible, cruelty-free beauty has fueled the success of the e.l.f. Cosmetics brand online and at retail since 2004. With the 2020 acquisition of the pioneering clean-beauty brand W3LL People, and the new lifestyle beauty brand Keys Soulcare created with Alicia Keys, we continue to strategically expand our portfolio with brands that support our purpose and values. Our brands are widely available online, and at leading beauty, mass-market, and natural specialty retailers.
