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.

• 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 vs forecast and prior year.
• Provide management reporting and variance analysis including insightful analysis to explain trends.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.).
• Experience with Vena or an equivalent SaaS FP&A planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, Oracle Analytics Cloud).

• 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.