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About the Role

This senior finance leadership role is responsible for delivering Group planning, forecasting, and performance reporting, along with category and product-level financial insight. You will lead the Group FP&A and Category Finance teams to ensure accurate, timely, and commercially focused reporting, providing the CFO, Managing Director, and Executive Leadership Team with clear insights into performance, risks, and opportunities. The role combines ownership of core financial cycles with business partnering and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end delivery of the global annual budget, forecasting cycles, and three-year plan, setting clear timelines, standards, and expectations across regions and functions.
Lead the consolidation, review, and challenge of submissions, ensuring assumptions are robust, outputs are accurate, and Group and Puig deadlines are met.
Own the preparation of weekly, monthly, executive, and Board reporting, translating financial performance into clear commentary, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
Provide the CFO, Managing Director, and Executive Leadership Team with forward-looking insight on revenue, profitability, and key business drivers.
Manage Group FP&A deliverables and ad hoc analysis for Puig and senior stakeholders, prioritizing requests and ensuring consistent, high-quality outputs.
Improve planning and reporting processes, controls, and ways of working to increase efficiency, clarity, and the quality of insight.
Own the delivery of category, franchise, and product-level reporting, including performance across launches, core ranges, limited editions, and key franchises.
Lead analysis of retail, gross, and net sales, NPD versus core performance, category profitability, and the financial drivers of growth.
Turn category and product performance into clear commercial recommendations, identifying opportunities, risks, and areas requiring action.
Lead financial input into category growth plans, investment decisions, and business cases, partnering with Commercial, Marketing, NPD, and Regional teams.
Set the agenda for Category Finance improvements, strengthening data quality, reporting capability, and the usability of insight through Anaplan, Power BI, and other tools.
Lead, coach, and develop the Group FP&A and Category Finance teams, setting clear priorities and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Act as a trusted and constructive partner to stakeholders, bringing an independent financial perspective and appropriate challenge.
Build effective relationships across Puig, Regional Finance, Commercial, Marketing, NPD, and Supply Chain to ensure alignment and support strong business outcomes.
Maintain high standards of governance, accuracy, and integrity across planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis.
Act as the senior Finance owner for relevant Anaplan developments, working with the internal Anaplan team to prioritize enhancements that support planning and reporting requirements.
Provide finance leadership and subject-matter input into systems transformation, ensuring new processes and data structures align with business and reporting needs.
Lead Finance delivery of the Integrated Financial Planning project through to go-live, partnering with Regional Finance and Supply Chain to align commercial, demand, and financial forecasts.

Requirements

Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent).
Significant FP&A leadership experience within a fast-paced consumer, retail, FMCG or beauty business.
Proven experience owning complex budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting cycles in a global or multi-market organisation.
Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to interpret performance, identify the key message and recommend practical actions.
Confident communicator with experience influencing and constructively challenging Executive and Board-level stakeholders.
Experience leading and developing finance teams and managing delivery across multiple priorities and deadlines.
Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with experience working with large data sets and management reporting tools.
Experience of Anaplan and Power BI is highly desirable.
Exposure to finance systems transformation programmes would be advantageous.

Skills

FP&A
Category Finance
Financial Planning
Forecasting
Performance Reporting
Budgeting
Financial Modelling
Anaplan
Power BI
Excel
Business Partnering
Leadership
Communication
Commercial Judgement

Location

Global

Work Type

Fixed-Term Contract
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Leadership

Education Level

Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)

Benefits

25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
Additional day to celebrate your birthday
Inclusive parental leave policy
Pension
Life assurance
Medicash
Employee Assist Programs
Regular social connects with colleagues
Dog friendly days and spaces
Generous product discount and gifting

About the Company

Founded in 2013 by world‑renowned makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury CBE, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has transformed the global beauty industry with one mission: to empower everyone, everywhere to look and feel like the most confident version of themselves.
With our easy‑to‑use, easy‑to‑choose, easy‑to‑gift icons, we’ve become one of the most talked‑about beauty brands on the planet - and the magic is only growing.
Today, we’re a global beauty phenomenon, scaling at record speed across 50+ markets with over 3,000 Dream Team members bringing the Tilbury magic to life every single day.
Across the world, our Retail Teams and Magic Offices work hand‑in‑hand to shape the Charlotte Tilbury experience - from the glamour of London and the style capitals of Europe, to the energy of the Americas, the vibrant beauty hubs of the Middle East and the fast‑growing innovation centres across APAC.
Every region brings its own sparkle, culture and community, creating the unmistakable magic of Team Tilbury.
We’re bold. We’re disruptive. We’re powered by creativity, innovation and industry‑leading tech.
As we continue to break records across countries, channels and categories, we’re looking for extraordinary talent to join us.

Equal Opportunity

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, to feel like the most beautiful and confident version of themselves. We bring this to life by welcoming people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, identities, and perspectives into our global team. A workforce that reflects the world around us helps us better serve our communities, our customers, our colleagues, and every candidate who takes part in our recruitment process.
If you need support or would like to apply through an alternative method, please contact us at recruitment@charlottetilbury.com