Job Description
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.
The Role
Due to our phenomenal growth, we now have an extremely exciting new opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join the Global Marketing team.
The Finance Assistant reports into the Finance Manager for Global Marketing and is expected to be a key contributor for any financial metrics associated to Global Marketing. Their outputs will be used by various budget holders and finance stakeholders across the business.
As a Finance Assistant you will
- Maintain OPEX trackers and assist with month end, budget and forecasting. Working closely with Creative Agency, PR, Brand Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Store Design, Product Development, Global Pro and Education teams for inputs.
- Attend monthly tracker review meetings with the Finance Manager and cost centre budget holders to ensure expenditure is being recognised accurately.
- Travel & Entertainment monthly reconciliation.
- Validate month end journal postings to ensure accuracy in Global Marketing accounts.
- Identify, and communicate Risks and Opportunities to forecast.
- Approve PO’s and enforce PO policy; provide training to new starters and ensure teams are adhering to the policy.
- Ad hoc analysis to support the Global Marketing Finance team.
- Updating monthly Group Finance templates
Reporting Relationships
- Reporting into the Finance Manager, Global Marketing
- Working closely with other members of the finance team including the Head of Global Marketing, and peers in similar roles across other regions
About you
- University degree or equivalent.
- Advanced excel skills (Vlookups, Pivot tables, Sum If, Indirect etc).
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, having the confidence to communicate clearly with 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
Preferred (Not Required)
- Interest in studying CIMA/ ACCA or similar.
- Experience with ANAPLAN, Looker, NetSuite
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 fury 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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