Senior Accountant: -End, GAAP & Unlimited PTO

About the Company

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. stands with every eye, lip, face, paw and fin. Our deep commitment to clean, cruelty free beautyat an incredible value has fueled the success of our flagship brand e.l.f. Cosmetics since 2004 and driven our portfolio expansion. Today, our multi-brand portfolio includes e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, Well People - clean beauty powered by plants, Naturium - high-performance, biocompatible, clinically-effective and accessible skin care, and our newest brand, rhode skin - developed by Hailey Rhode Bieber, a line of curated skincare essentials, formulated for a variety of skin types and needs with high performance ingredients, it’s a daily routine that nourishes your skin barrier over time

In our Fiscal year 25, we had net sales of $1 Billion and our business performance has been nothing short of extraordinary with 29 consecutive quarters of net sales growth. We are the #2 mass cosmetics brand in the US and are the fastest growing mass cosmetics brand among the top 5. Our total compensation philosophy offers every full-time new hire competitive pay and benefits, bonus eligibility (200% of target over the last seven fiscal years), equity, flexible time off, year-round half-day Fridays, and a hybrid 3 day in office, 2 day at home work environment.

We believe the combination of our unique culture, total compensation, workplace flexibility and care for the team is unmatched across not just beauty but any industry.

Visit our Career Page to learn more about our team:

Title:
Senior Accountant

Status:
Full Time Employee

Department:
International

Location:
London

Reporting Relationship:
Accounting Manager, International

About the Role

We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our Finance team. This role will take ownership of the General Ledger function, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timely delivery of financial reporting for the UK entity.

You will play a critical role in month-end close, reconciliations, statutory audit support, and financial analysis, while partnering closely with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• • Perform a magnitude of different tasks for month-end and year-end closing;
    Lead the month-end close process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness for assigned areas
  • Maintain complete documentation and support for all accounting entries and balance sheet accounts
  • Perform monthly balance sheet account reconciliations and subsequent analytical reviews of any discrepancies;
  • Manage and review intercompany journal entries and their reconciliations;
  • Maintain and update accounting policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with GAAP and company growth
  • Maintain fixed asset master data, ensuring accuracy across asset class, cost centre, useful life, depreciation areas, and accounting assignments
  • Oversee CIP internal orders from setup through close‑out, ensuring correct settlement rules, classifications, and capitalization
  • Maintain strong SOX controls, documentation standards, approval workflows, and audit trails across fixed assets and internal orders
  • Review and document asset impairment reviews, providing evidence and support for internal and external audit requirements.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve controls, and drive efficiencies within the finance function
  • Tracking and managing trade spend, allocating invoices to promotions, monitoring invoice/accrual balances, and supporting actions to reduce aged or unallocated items.
  • Coach and develop team members to strengthen technical capability and process discipline, implement consistent review, feedback, and knowledge-sharing routines
  • Working with stakeholders to investigate variances and resolve root causes, using data to explain what’s happened and what it means.
  • Support ad hoc reporting, projects, and continuous improvement initiatives as required

Qualifications:

• • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) at least 2 years PQE
  • Strong management accounting experience with proven ownership of…