Senior Manager, Finance Web

Job ID: 298725
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Finance
Work Location: San Francisco - Hybrid Schedule

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Your Role at Sephora:

Ready for a career glow up? As Senior Finance Manager, Web, you'll be leading financial lanning and analysis for our US Web business. The work you do will impact beauty, as you guide sales, margin, and expense decisions that drive profitable digital growth. You'll manage a team that's united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about turning data into insights that shape the client experience.

What You'll Do:

• Lead sales and gross margin planning. Own the budget, rolling forecast, and long-range plan for Web sales. Partner with Web, Analytics, and Marketing leaders to quantify how digital marketing, promotions, launches, and site and app initiatives affect sales and profitability.
• Drive gross margin analysis. Lead planning and analysis of product margin, promotions, markdowns, returns, and other cost-of-sales components with Demand Planning and Accounting partners.
• Deliver performance insights. Provide weekly, monthly, and annual reporting versus forecast, budget, and prior year. Highlight key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Own expense budgeting, forecasting, and control. Manage the budget, forecast, monthly close, and variance analysis for all controllable Web expenses, including shipping, client services, client experience, and variable marketing.
• Hold partners accountable. Review spending against approved plans, follow up with expense owners, and resolve issues to deliver operating plan objectives.
• Evaluate digital initiatives and lead the team. Build business cases and ROI analyses and measure results after major initiatives. Lead, develop, and coach the Web finance team, improve planning, reporting, and tools, and prepare ad hoc analyses for Web leadership.

What You'll Bring:

• Finance experience. At least 7 years of progressive finance experience, ideally in business planning and analysis within ecommerce or retail. This includes sales forecasting, gross margin analysis, variable expense budgeting and forecasting, and monthly close.
• Team leadership. 3+ years of experience leading and developing a team, with the ability to coach and grow talent.
• Education. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business required. Master's degree or MBA preferred.
• Financial planning expertise. Strong skills in forecasting, budgeting, monthly close, variance analysis, and P&L management. This includes advanced Excel (including Copilot) and financial modeling skills. Anaplan and SAP experience preferred.
• Ecommerce acumen. Strong understanding of ecommerce economics, including traffic and conversion, gross margin and promotional impact, and shipping and returns.
• Partnership and communication. Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with non-financial partners and executive leadership. You can hold expense owners accountable while maintaining productive relationships.
• Mindset. Strategic, analytical, detail-oriented, and motivated. You thrive in a fast-paced, client-oriented environment and manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.

What You’ll Get:

The annual base salary range for this position is $155,975.00- $174,352.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job.Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses.This job will be posted for a minimum offivedays.

• CaringCommunity. You’llcollaborate with teammates who are equally passionateabout innovatinganddrivingthe industry forward – together, united in beauty.
• Fulfilling Path. Your career transformation starts here, with opportunities that will challenge,stretchand develop your skills.
• Meaningful Work. As you make an impact onbeauty,you’llfeel and see the positive change (consumer, industry,andsocial)thatyourindividual voice is a part of.

Some benefits have eligibility requirements and may depend on job classification and length of employment.

• Health .Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family’s needs withmedical,dental, and vision coverage.Sephora also fully covers our employees’ disability and life insurance.
• Wealth .We offer a competitive 401k with4%match as well as FSA and HSA programs. We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan, where your student loan paymentsqualifyto earn the 401k match from Sephora.
• Balance .You’ll beempoweredto find the perfect blend of work/life balance thatactuallyworks for youwithPTO, flexibility,protectedleave, and more.
• Growth .Career growthis built into every role, with access to training,development,and tuition reimbursement.
• Perks .Thinkyou’vetried it all? Enjoya30%discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities forfreeproductor “gratis,”and flash sale discountsonLVMHbrandproducts.
• Support .Join a team thattruly cares– with free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse. Plus, volunteer and donation matching.

Sephora values a diverse andinclusiveworkplaceand considers allapplicants withoutregard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, national origin, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), age, religion, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protectedcategory.Sephora is committed to providing reasonable accommodationtaapplicantswith disabilities or other medical conditions.

Sephora will consider all qualified applicants, including those witharrest and conviction recordsin a manner consistent with the requirements of allapplicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

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