Senior Director of Finance leading financial strategy for Huda Beauty across Europe. Overseeing finance, demand planning, and supply chain to ensure business profitability and effectiveness.
Responsibilities
Serve as financial advisor to the Europe team and global Finance team, providing data-driven recommendations and creating a long-term strategy for Huda Beauty’s financial stability based on financial analysis, forecasting and modeling.
Lead, mentor, coach, empower 3 direct reports and an overall team of 8. Provide thought leadership and build strong, effective partnerships with both internal and external partners
Build business models and forecasting tools that allow for long-term scenario planning and real-time decision making that maximize Huda Beauty’s impact and revenue
Partner with and present to the senior leadership team on:
P&Ls by country, region, retailer
YTD performance/YTG targets vs. Budget
Potential opportunities & risks
Feedback sales-mix implications on profit (e.g. COG)
Mange the demand planning team on capturing, reporting and monitoring retail/wholesale monthly sales plans (forecasts and results) by channel and geography, flowing into regional and international reporting
With the General Manager, capture, report and monitor investment plans by channel and geography.
Track the inventory value and the obsolescence risk, and ensure that E&O remains in budget
Ensure the integrity, accuracy and usefulness of all financial reports, including budget-to-actuals and financial reports for Huda Beauty, the Board, and key internal decision-makers
Hold a key role in the regional S&OP process ensuring proper regional alignment between financial and unit sales forecast and inventory plans
Support on overseeing the fixed costs of logistics, warehousing, and impact of inventory costs
Work closely with the General Manager for all external negotiations with retailers including Sephora to protect business interests and represent the brand
Drive operational excellence across the organization, evaluating, refining, creating and/or supporting systems and processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness as we scale in size, product lines, and complexity
Partner closely with the Operations team to forecast, monitor and analyze our logistics budgets, advising on efficiencies across 3PL fulfillment and global physical distribution costs
Requirements
8-10 years of finance management experience ideally in a start-up to scale-up organization
Experience working, negotiating, and building relationships with multiple external stakeholders including retailers, 3PLs, etc.
Flexibility, resilience, and comfort navigating ambiguity — the tempo at Huda Beauty is fast and can pivot quickly, ability to thrive and lead a team in this environment
Proven success as a kind and empathetic leader and coach/mentor with success in hiring and fostering growth of their team; ability to successfully motivate and challenge a team of talented and creative people at all levels of the organization
Ability to roll up their sleeves and get things done, but also be a strategic leader with the ability to build frameworks, and communicate this effectively to company leadership, the organization, the Board, and the global market
Benefits
Monthly “Self Love Days” – at company discretion
Premium Medical/Dental/Vision coverage for employee plus dependents
Monthly coaching sessions with our in-house Success Coach
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