Director, Finance Business Partner

The Estée Lauder Companies
New York, NY

Description

The Director, Finance Business Partner provides strategic financial leadership and serves as a trusted adviser to function leadership, partnering on cost management, investment strategies, and key financial decisions. This role leads end-to-end financial planning and forecasting, delivers insightful analysis and performance reporting, and drives continuous improvement in FP&A processes, systems, and reporting. Through close collaboration with senior stakeholders, the role translates financial data into actionable insights that support effective financial planning and inform critical business decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning and Forecasting?

  • Lead the development and oversee the execution of the annual financial planning processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning

  • Develop financial models to support business decisions, scenario analysis, and long-term forecasting

Strategic Analysis

  • Proactively conduct in-depth analyses to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to support decision making.

Performance Monitoring & Reporting

  • Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, including variance analysis and financial performance metrics

  • Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, systems, and reporting to enhance accuracy and efficiency

  • Implement best practices in financial planning and analysis, leveraging technology and automation where applicable

Collaboration & Business Partnership

  • Partner with function leadership to establish financial targets and KPIs and provide financial insights and support business planning and decision making

  • Serve as a key financial adviser to function leadership, offering guidance on cost management, resource allocation, and investment strategies

  • Communicate financial results, forecasts, and key insights to senior leaders and other stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Finance, Accounting, MBA and/or CPA preferred

  • 7-10 years of experience

  • Advanced Excel skills associated with large volumes of data, data management, and reporting

  • Understanding of functional allocations and impacts on profitability reporting.

  • Presentation skills with senior management

  • Excellent written and verbal communication

  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks

  • Experience using the following systems: SAP, CPM, OneStream, Business Warehouse, and Tableau

Business/Management Competencies

  • Storytelling with Data: Effectively communicating insights, trends, and complex information using data visualization techniques and compelling narratives.

  • Driving Execution: Translating strategic priorities into actionable steps and effectively managing resources, timelines, and stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

  • Business Acumen: Leveraging an understanding of economic, financial, market, and industry trends to influence effective business strategies and tactics.

  • Problem Solving: Identifying and understanding problems by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data and developing solutions based on available facts and probable consequences.

  • Enterprise Mindset: Keeping the enterprise's interest at the forefront of decision making; ensuring that self and others are in compliance with all regulations and act in accordance with the ethics and values of the enterprise.

Interpersonal Competencies

  • Acting as a Business Advisor/ Building Partnerships: Building productive relationships with business partners and creating value by meeting current and emerging needs

  • Strategic Influence: Using effective involvement and influence strategies to gain commitment to one's ideas and persuade key stakeholders to take action that will advance shared business goals.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].

Posted 2026-01-18

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