Financial Analyst TR & MEA Full Time

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.

About The Role

The Travel Retail, Middle East & Africa regions are experiencing exceptional growth as we expand into new countries. We are therefore looking for a commercially minded Finance Analyst to support this exciting journey.

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager – Travel Retail & MEA, you will play a key role in contributing to the delivery of all financial metrics for the region. You will partner closely with Commercial teams to support Retail-Net Sales budgets and forecasts, own cost tracking, deliver ad‑hoc financial analysis, and lead key elements of month‑end reporting and process improvement.

As Finance Analyst you will

• Support the preparation of weekly sales reports and actively participate in weekly Commercial meetings to understand, challenge and identify sales performance for the regions
• Assist with the budget and forecasting process of OPEX and CAPEX, working closely with Marketing, VM, PR, Store Design and Training teams for inputs
• Lead monthly review meetings and business partner budget holders to ensure expenditure is being recognised timely and accurately
• Partner with the Retail teams to support in the forecasting of Retail Staffing costs for the region
• Assist in the preparation of P&L files following month-end close. Prepare month end commentary packs for presentation of actuals Vs forecast for Senior Management
• Validate and post month end journals to ensure accuracy in Travel Retail & MEA and Global management accounts
• Routine collaboration with the Shared Service Centre to support timely and accurate month-end postings
• Drive PO compliance with business partners through compliance monitoring, reporting and stakeholder education
• Actively contribute to the development of new business opportunities through building and analysing business case models
• Support on post-investment appraisals and ROI analysis for commercial approved initiatives
• Ad hoc analysis to support the Senior Finance Manager – Travel Retail & MEA

Who You Will Work With

• Reporting into the Senior Finance Manager – Travel Retail & MEA
• Working closely with other members of the wider finance team, including Regional and Group FP&A, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Shared Services and Tax
• Act as a key Business Partner to Travel Retail and Middle East teams

About You

• Part-qualified accountant – CIMA, ACCA, ACA with a minimum of 3 years industry experience
• Experience of Retail would be desirable
• Advanced excel skills (Vlookups, Pivot tables, Sum If, Indirect etc) with the ability to build models from scratch
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to communicate clearly with a broad range of stakeholders across both finance and non‑finance teams
• Commercial and analytical mindset
• Flexible & proactive, with an eagerness to learn
• Positive ‘can-do’ attitude
• Highly organised and able to prioritise workload effectively within a scaling business
• Experience with Anaplan, Looker, NetSuite/SAP is desirable but not essential

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.

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