Manager, Business Analytics

 

 

 

 

 

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.