Finance Director | Retail Beauty

The role

The Finance Director of Retail Beauty will lead financial control, reporting, and commercial performance for Beauty brands. This role involves managing a multi-disciplinary team of up to 25 colleagues and partnering with strategic business areas to drive profitable growth.

What you will do

• Have full ownership of divisional month-end close processes across all Beauty brands.
• Build and lead the Beauty consolidation and group reporting process.
• Ensure rigorous balance sheet governance, accuracy, and control.
• Lead commercial insights and analysis to drive profitability.
• Deliver profit improvement and working capital initiatives.
• Oversee budgeting and forecasting including rolling 12-month projections.
• Support major strategic programmes like international expansion and business separation.
• Partner across supply chain, trading, and marketing to ensure profitable growth.
• Lead, motivate, and develop a multi-disciplinary finance team of up to 25 colleagues.
• Oversee day-to-day finance operations.

Required qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Significant senior finance leadership experience in a complex, international organisation.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of P&L and Balance Sheet.
• Strong expertise in financial control, reporting, consolidation, and compliance.
• Demonstrated track record in commercial finance, including profit improvement, cost management, working capital optimisation, budgeting and forecasting.
• Credible and influential strategic partner.
• Experience supporting major strategic initiatives such as international expansion, transformation programmes, or business separations.
• Strong people leader with experience managing and developing large, multi-disciplinary finance teams.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent communicator.

Nice to have

• Experience in consumer goods, beauty, personal care, or FMCG sectors.
• Exposure to international business models.
• A good understanding of ecommerce.
• Track record of driving finance transformation, systems optimisation, and process improvements.

Benefits

• Access bespoke development programmes.
• Continued development through an upskilling programme.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Day off on your birthday.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
• Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
• Buy back up to 3 days each year.
• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months.
• Access to face-to-face and virtual appointments with an in-house GP.
• Access to subsidised on-site dentist.
• Access 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provided by Bupa.
• State-of-the-art on-site gym.

About the company

THG is a global ecommerce group and an online leader in beauty and sports nutrition. Its portfolio includes brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty.