Sr Financial Analyst. International

Ulta Beauty, Inc. • Bolingbrook, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of the Financial Planning and Analysis team, the Senior Financial Analyst will be a key strategic partner to business leaders, providing financial guidance to drive data-backed decisions and delivering insights that promote accountability and results. This role owns core forecasting and budgeting workstreams, leads cross-functional collaboration, and proactively identifies opportunities to improve performance and efficiency.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree (Accounting/Finance/Statistics/Math)
• 5 + yrs. relevant work experience or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience
• Highly analytical with strong technical and strategic thinking skills.
• Background in compiling data, creating queries, and replicable reports.
• Solid problem analysis skills to assess, research, interpret, and analyze complex data.
• Intellectual curiosity and out-of-the-box thinking to deliver analysis and creative solutions.
• Organized and detail-oriented with the ability to multitask.
• High proficiency and ability to compile data, develop canned reports, and create and analyze spreadsheets.
• Effectively prioritize and manage assignments with time-sensitive deadlines.
• Extremely strong skill set in Excel.
• PowerPoint experience with the ability to present financial data to internal business partners.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Power BI experience is a plus.
• Prior budgeting and forecasting experience preferred.
• Experience in Finance in the retail industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Accounting and international finance teams to manage the close process, ensuring accuracy and clarity in variance analysis between budget, forecast, and actual results across acquisitions, joint ventures, franchises, and international overhead.
• Support the development of financial forecasts, budgets, and LRPs in collaboration with internal stakeholders and business partners. Evaluate key drivers, risks, and opportunities to deliver accurate, insightful projections that inform strategic decisions.
• Own and evolve key international reporting processes to deliver timely, relevant, and actionable insights on financial and operational Key Performance Indicators across owned, joint venture, and franchise business models and international overhead, as well as pressure-test forecasts and plans.
• Identify opportunities to streamline international financial processes, improve reporting consistency and efficiency, and enhance forecasting and modeling tools.
• Develop and communicate recommendations to drive profitability, by analyzing profitability and financial hurdles throughout our international investments.
• Support investment and capital allocation decisions through financial modeling, scenario analysis, and evaluation of returns to help drive profitable international growth.
• Lead ad hoc analyses that support international business case development, investment decisions, and financial performance management.

Benefits

• opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company’s bonus plan
• Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits.
• Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior