Finance Director, Beauty

Finance Director
- Beauty

Join our Finance team at Helen of Troy and make an immediate impact on our trusted Beauty brands:
Hot Tools, Drybar, Curlsmith, and Revlon. Together, we build innovative and useful products that elevate people's lives everywhere, every day.

Position:
Finance Director
- Beauty

Department:
Finance
- Shared Services

Work Location:

Boston, MA – Hybrid (work 3 days onsite)

Hybrid

Schedule:

At Helen of Troy, we embrace a flexible hybrid work model designed to support collaboration and productivity. For roles eligible for hybrid work, our standard schedule includes in-office collaboration from Tuesday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Any updates to this model will be communicated in advance. Please note that hybrid eligibility and schedules may vary based on business needs and manager expectations.

What you will be doing:

The Director of Finance serves as the strategic finance leader and trusted advisor to the General Manager, partnering across Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Product Development, Operations, and Corporate FP&A to accelerate profitable growth. This leader owns the financial performance narrative for the business, translates strategy into actionable financial plans, challenges assumptions, identifies risks and opportunities, and ensures disciplined resource and capital allocation.

This role goes beyond reporting results; it influences decisions before they happen.

Financial Planning Leadership

Own complete business performance narrative across revenue, gross margin, operating margin, EBITDA, working capital, inventory, trade spend, marketing investments, and capital investments. Lead monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual operating plan, long-range plan, scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, risks and opportunities, financial modeling, One Stream submissions, MBRs/QBRs, KPI dashboards, executive scorecards, variance/root-cause analysis, and corrective action planning.

Strategic Business Partnership

Serve as primary financial advisor to the GM and business leadership team; translate strategy into financial objectives; develop long-range growth plans; evaluate strategic investments, licensing opportunities, partnerships, and business cases; challenge commercial assumptions with data-driven analysis.

Commercial Finance & Revenue/Growth Management

Partner with Sales, Marketing, Category Management, and RGM on customer, SKU, channel, category, and brand profitability; pricing strategy; gross-to-net management; trade spend optimization; promotional ROI; elasticity; incrementality; mix optimization; customer negotiations; and customer investment allocation.

Consumer, Market & POS Analytics

Use POS, market share, household penetration, category growth, velocity, distribution, competitive intelligence, digital shelf, pricing gaps, and assortment insights to connect marketplace trends to financial performance and recommended actions.

Margin, Supply Chain & Working Capital Leadership

Drive gross margin improvement through cost inflation, commodity and tariff analysis, productivity, manufacturing efficiencies, freight, sourcing alternatives, portfolio simplification, inventory optimization, E&O management, service levels, S&OP, and forecast accuracy.

Leadership & Talent Development

Develop finance talent; build high-performing teams; coach business partners; foster financial acumen across the business; lead cross-functional initiatives; champion continuous improvement and stronger decision discipline.

Skills needed to be successful in this role:

• Executive presence with the ability to influence decision-making at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights and compelling business stories.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and lead organizational change across cross-functional teams.
• Strong commercial curiosity and the ability to connect consumer behavior, retailer economics, competitive dynamics, and operational drivers to financial outcomes.
• Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, scenario…