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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 5–7 years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or a related financial discipline.
- Prior experience of operating at a Senior Financial Analyst, Finance Manager, or comparable level with demonstrated ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting processes.
- Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), beauty, retail, or other consumer-focused industry experience strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of the Profit & Loss statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement, including the relationships among the three financial statements.
- Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical capabilities.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong systems aptitude with experience working in financial planning systems, databases, ERPs, or business intelligence tools, including extracting, analyzing, and uploading financial data.
- Ability to interpret complex financial and operational data and translate findings into clear business insights and recommendations.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to understand key commercial and operational drivers and their financial impact.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the confidence to partner with and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and commitment to accuracy.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and solutions-oriented with a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves approach.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with the ability to build effective relationships across Finance and cross-functional teams.
Compensation
The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of Milani's salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, and experience.
Base Salary Range: $120,000.00-$140,000.00
EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k w/ Company Match)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Generous Vacation Time Policy
- Family Leave
- Short Term & Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Work Environment / Hybrid (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday required on site at Milani’s Culver City office location).
- Dog Friendly