Finance Manager - Europe

Finance Manager - Europe

Reporting to the Head of Finance – Europe, the Finance Manager Europe is responsible for finance business partnering across multiple countries in Europe. The role involves ensuring accurate and timely reporting of financial performance and delivering commercially robust and budgeted and forecasting. Additionally, this position collaborates with other teams to support the growth and delivery of market results in Europe and oversees a team of two direct reports responsible for meeting required objectives.

As a Finance Manager - Europe you will:

• Ensure the timely and accurate completion of month-end closing activities in accordance with Group policies and deadlines, including thorough reviews of all sales and cost general ledger accounts and comprehensive variance analysis.
• Perform monthly reviews of all Balance Sheet function accruals, proactively resolving aged or material items to maintain accuracy and transparency.
• Lead monthly Senior Leadership Team (SLT) P&L review meetings, distributing pre-read materials and agendas ahead of time to facilitate effective discussions.
• Deliver clear and insightful explanations of variances against forecasts and prior year results, highlighting key risks and opportunities, and ensuring follow-up on agreed actions.
• Foster robust communication with the Global Shared Services team, partnering closely to enhance process efficiency and ensure precision in transactional accounting.

Forecasting:

• Provide timely and meaningful weekly sales reports by engaging in SISO (Sales in Sales out) meetings, critically assessing sales and weeks of cover (WOC) assumptions, and pinpointing potential risks and opportunities.
• Oversee weeks of cover (WOC) reporting, ensuring strong alignment with commercial teams, while analysing trends and monitoring retailer performance.
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes, scheduling all review meetings with clear agendas and allowing adequate review time before global deadlines.
• Review and challenge budget and forecast submissions by verifying underlying assumptions, tracking growth and cost drivers, evaluating retailer productivity, and identifying risks and opportunities.
• Coordinate with the commercial and supply chain teams to align financial budgeting and forecasting with regional demand plans, ensuring accurate and consistent information.
• Maintain a continuous feedback process for regional forecasts, ensuring that effective mitigation plans are in place to secure key KPIs.
• Develop collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, promoting transparent communication to share insights and enable informed decision-making.

Business Casing & Analysis:

• Support the preparation of business casing across new distribution, marketing and promotional investment, providing critical analysis and challenge.
• Conduct post-investment reviews of new distribution and promotional initiatives, extracting key insights to inform future strategies.
• Evaluate marketing return on investment to strengthen commercial understanding of core business drivers and optimise expenditure.
• Routinely perform in-depth analyses of targeted P&L cost lines to confirm account integrity and maintain robust cost control.

Other:

• Promote a culture of continuous team coaching and professional development, empowering individuals to achieve their full potential and fostering a high-performing environment.
• Lead initiatives to enhance operational efficiency by identifying and implementing process improvements across key workflows.
• Ensure a sound financial control environment, embracing the Groups policies and procedures.

Behaviours:

• Engage with non-finance partners to drive commercial growth.
• Develop creative solutions to problems.
• Simplify complexity for timely, clear output.
• Leading with a creative, 'can-do' mindset to encourage overcoming complexity and streamlining of BAU processes
• Encourage a growth mindset by example.
• Take ownership of personal development

About you:

• Relevant professional certification (e.g., ACA, CIMA) is a must
• Proven experience in managing commercial finance teams and business partnering in multi country regions.
• Experience in the premium retail sector and/or FMCG is essential
• Understanding of global company operations, processes and compliance requirements
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data and provide actionable insights
• Solid knowledge of accounting principles (UK GAAP / IFRS), financial modelling, and forecasting techniques.
• Excellent team management skills.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking.
• Independent thinker and driven to achieve best results
• Ability to prioritise and provide follow up in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient in financial software and tools (e.g., ERP systems, advanced Excel).
• Experience using Anaplan and Netsuite highly desirable

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.