Senior Accounting Manager
Job Description
Reporting to the Vice President of Finance and New Business Development, The Senior Accounting Manager is responsible for leading the commercial FP&A function for Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Inc.- North America. This role will partner with both Local and Global Finance teams in ensuring a timely and accurate month close, integrity of financial records, health of balance sheets and preparation of useful financial reports. This role will contribute towards building and developing a robust finance function to support continued growth of the North America business.
Roles & Responsibilities:
General Accounting and Controls:
· Play an active role in developing (1) direct report and supporting their remit to ensure high confidence of their output
· Responsible for maintaining the daily flow of financial information to achieve a timely and efficient month end and year end close process for North America
· Ensuring timely and accurate completion of the month end close process for North America's assigned areas of responsibilities including but not limited to various general ledger and subledger accounting such as fixed assets, prepayments, leases, payroll, returns and other reserves provisions, COGS, Logistics/related costs, various accruals and reclassifications with adherence to month end timelines
· Conduct pre-close month end review meetings with team to highlight areas of concern to responsible team members
· Ensure accuracy and timeliness of income statements, balance sheets & other financial reports
· Ensuring timely completion and review of balance sheet reconciliations to ensure health and accuracy of records
· Deliver various analysis, schedules and reporting for assigned areas of responsibilities
· Ensure compliance with accounting standards as well as internal company policies & procedures
· Partner with Global Finance team on intercompany transactions
· Assist with implementing internal controls and accounting policies & procedures to promote effective governance and accurate financial reporting
· Lead the coordination of filed work for the any internal audit process and ensure timely delivery of audit requests
· Research technical accounting issues and provide expert advice/guidance
· Ad hoc projects as required
Audit/Tax/Systems:
· Lead the coordination of filed work for the annual audit process and work with group finance team to ensure timely delivery of audit requests
· Work in partnership with finance and cross functional teams to lead resolution for testing selections
· Work with internal tax accounting group to assist with the preparation of annual tax returns, computations, capital allowances and other related matters
· Power user of NetSuite accounting system
· Key contributor for various systems testing and modifications projects
We’re Looking for:
· Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
· Certified Public Accountant (CPA) required
· Accounting experience of 7+ years required
· Big 4 experience a plus
· Extensive month end and financial reporting experience
· Motivated self-starter with ability to multi-task in a very fast-paced start-up environment
· Flexible & adaptable to changing priorities
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interface comfortably at all levels both internally and externally
· Must be detailed-oriented and organized
· Advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP's, XLOOKUP's, pivot tables, sum-if, index-match, etc) and financial systems savviness
· Proven track record of process improvements
· NetSuite experience is preferable
· Affinity for retail and beauty
Who will you work with:
You will have supervision responsibility of 1 direct report (Sr. Accountant) and will report into the Vice President of Finance and New Business Development and work alongside a team of 10. This role will also partner with various North America Business functions, such as: Commercial, Field Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing, Visual Merchandising and Local/Global Finance teams and a global group finance function.
Culture of the Team:
We win together as a team, supporting and developing each other through our careers. We embrace the challenge and work in an incredibly fast paced environment with high expectations set by the business, shaking it up with our creative lead, Charlotte Tilbury as we revolutionize the beauty industry. We love what we do, and we support each other while we share the magic with the world.
Base Salary Range $140,000-150,000**
Company Benefits
- Generous staff discount to use on all products
- Access to Tilbury Treats – our very own rewards platform allowing you to save money and gain ‘money can’t buy’ discounts on anything from gym memberships to cinema tickets
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Commuter Benefits (Pre-tax)
- Flex Spending Account (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401(k) with Company match
- Paid Time Off
- Birthday PTO
**Charlotte Tilbury, in good faith, believes that this posted range of compensation is the accurate range for this role at the time of this posting**
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.
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Company Information
Location: London, United Kingdom
Type: Hybrid