Anaplan Solution Architect

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech - all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the brand is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role
As an Anaplan Solution Architect, you will own overarching Anaplan strategic direction, working with key finance and business stakeholders to prioritise and deliver the Anaplan roadmap. Ensure day-to-day Anaplan functioning as intended, with smooth and clear communication.

This role plays a significant part in understanding the challenges faced by the business and ensuring that Anaplan is architected in a way that the new solutions alleviate these. You will contribute to several initiatives around financial planning within the business. You will work closely across finance, technology, and transformation teams. You will lead the Anaplan Architect and other junior resources who work within the team and support them in delivering a high-quality output.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the FP&A processes and support the roadmap of technology transformation within Charlotte Tilbury.

As an Anaplan Solution Architect you will:

• Knowledge - Full understanding of existing applications, models, and process flows.
• Processes - Own and review process documentation and training materials.
• Daily maintenance - Escalation point for urgent/significant BAU issues.
• Monthly Actuals - Ultimate responsibility for monthly actuals integration from the ERP system.
• New Developments - System architect for the design and implementation of all new developments and redesigning existing areas when required, covering all areas of the lifecycle (analyse, design, build, test, implement, support).
• Stakeholder Management - Own relationships with Group FP&A, the wider finance, and tech teams.
• User Management - Overall responsibility for ensuring users in line with contract.
• Relationship with Anaplan - Own relationship with Anaplan key contacts, including contract renewal, training and support, understanding new features.
• Coaching / Team Management - Line management of 2 team members (Anaplan model builder and Anaplan admin).

About you:

• Degree - Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, or Finance, or a similar analytics-related field.
• Anaplan Certification - Anaplan Certified Solution Architect or Certified Master Anaplanner.
• Anaplan-model building - Strong Anaplan design and implementation experience.
• Financial Modelling - Strong Financial Modelling experience.
• Budget / Forecasting - Experience in forecasting and budgeting, with proven experience in a commercial and analytical environment.
• Team Leadership - Experience managing and coaching team members (line management of 2 team members).
• Stakeholder management - Ability to manage stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Behaviours - Ability to think logically and methodically.
• Behaviours - Positive 'can-do' attitude.
• Behaviours - Flexible and proactive with an eagerness to learn.
• Behaviours - Highly organised and able to prioritise workload effectively within a scaling business.

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values-driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves.
• We're a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you.
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all.
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs, and regular social connects with colleagues.
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog-friendly days and spaces.
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

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.