About the Role
The Manager, Business Analytics will leverage analytical and problem-solving skills to deliver in-depth analytical support, optimizing decision-making for 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.
- Participate in the monthly financial close process, researching sales and margin impacts versus forecast and prior year.
- Provide management reporting and variance analysis, including insightful analysis to explain trends.
- Actively participate in the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, comfortable challenging teams on assumptions and quantifying sales risks and opportunities for finance leadership.
- Collaborate with business partners on pricing, costing, and other ad hoc 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.
Requirements
- 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, including building new models and streamlining existing ones.
- 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).
- Ability to convert complex analyses into business insights with a strong curiosity to explore data and communicate findings.
- Ability to operate with minimal supervision and make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently.
- Strong organization and time management skills.
- Solution-oriented and innovative with a desire to contribute ideas and engage in various business areas.
- Attention to detail, high integrity, self-awareness, and humility.
Skills
- Financial analysis
- Forecasting
- Reporting
- Excel modeling
- Financial planning
- Data visualization
- PowerBI
- Tableau
- SAP S/4HANA
- Vena
- Adaptive
- Anaplan
- Oracle Analytics Cloud
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years of financial analysis experience
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree with an emphasis in finance or economics
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Bonus eligibility (200% of target over the last seven fiscal years)
- Equity
- Flexible time off
- Year-round half-day Fridays
About the Company
- e.l.f. Beauty's purpose is to make the world a better place for every eye, lip, and face.
- Deep commitment to clean, cruelty-free beauty at an incredible value.
- Flagship brand e.l.f. Cosmetics launched in 2004, with portfolio expansion including e.l.f. SKIN, e.l.f. Hair, Well People, Naturium, and rhode.
- Achieved net sales of $1.6 Billion in Fiscal Year 26.
- Experienced 7 consecutive years of net sales growth.
- Total compensation philosophy offers competitive pay and benefits, bonus eligibility, equity, flexible time off, year-round half-day Fridays, and a hybrid work environment.
- Believes in a unique culture, total compensation, workplace flexibility, and care for the team that is unmatched across industries.
