Finance Manager

Finance Manager

Milani Cosmetics is built on a simple belief: beauty should feel exceptional, every day. For more than 20 years, that principle has guided the brand's mission to raise the standard of mass beauty. Working with trusted suppliers in Italy, South Korea, the US and beyond, Milani creates formulas with premium ingredients, rich pigments and meticulous detail; products designed to exceed expectations.

Today, Milani has built a cult following as the #7 U.S. mass color cosmetics brand, the third fastest-growing brand and the only independent brand in the top 10. Milani is known for its best-selling Baked Blush, crafted through a unique baking process on Italian terracotta tiles, along with Make it Last Setting Spray Original, the #1 ranked mass setting spray. The brand's products feature premium skin-loving ingredients and technologies such as guava fruit extract, blue algae, chamomile, glycerin and niacinamide, and all products are proudly cruelty-free. For Milani, what's inside matters, which is why every product is made with ingredients worthy of the consumers who wear them.

What's Inside is Everything!

Summary:

Milani Cosmetics is seeking a talented and motivated Finance Manager to join our growing Finance team. Reporting to the Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, the Finance Manager will play a key role in leading financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and business analytics across the organization.

This position will serve as a strategic finance partner to cross-functional leaders, translating financial results and business trends into actionable insights that support decision-making and drive profitable growth. The Finance Manager will own key components of the annual budget and forecasting processes, develop and maintain financial models, and provide meaningful analysis of business performance, risks, and opportunities.

The ideal candidate is highly analytical, commercially minded, collaborative, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, growing organization. This individual should be equally comfortable working through detailed financial analysis and communicating key takeaways and recommendations to business leaders.

This is a hybrid role. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are all-staff days and require in-office attendance at our Culver City location.

Position Mission:

The mission of the Finance Manager is to provide financial leadership, analytical insight, and strategic partnership to the Finance team and business stakeholders. This role will help lead Milani's planning and reporting processes, improve financial visibility across the organization, and ensure leaders have the information and insights needed to make sound business decisions.

The Finance Manager will be instrumental in continuing to strengthen the financial infrastructure and processes required to support a growing organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead key components of the company's annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes, partnering cross-functionally to develop accurate and well-supported financial plans.
• Manage the consolidation, analysis, and presentation of monthly financial results, forecasts, and annual budgets for senior management.
• Develop insightful variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior-year results, identifying key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to assigned business functions, providing financial guidance and decision support related to investments, spending, profitability, and business performance.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models and reporting tools that improve visibility into business performance and support strategic decision-making.
• Lead the preparation of management reporting packages and presentations, translating complex financial data into clear, concise, and actionable insights.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to establish financial targets, monitor performance against plans, and proactively identify emerging trends and opportunities.
• Analyze business performance and profitability across products, customers, channels, and other key dimensions as needed to support commercial and operational decisions.
• Own the administration and integrity of financial planning and reporting systems, including uploading and maintaining budgets and forecasts and ensuring data accuracy.
• Identify opportunities to improve FP&A processes, reporting capabilities, financial controls, and overall efficiency.
• Support scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, investment analysis, and other strategic financial evaluations.
• Conduct ad hoc financial and business analysis in support of executive leadership and strategic initiatives.
• Provide guidance and support to other members of the Finance team and contribute to the continued development of strong FP&A capabilities across the organization.