Estée Lauder Employee Cost Manager

About Estée Lauder

Estée Lauder is a global prestige beauty house with a legacy of innovation, elegance, and entrepreneurial spirit dating back to 1946. As an employer, the company offers the opportunity to contribute to a portfolio of admired luxury and beauty brands while upholding high standards of creativity, consumer insight, and excellence. It cultivates a dynamic, inclusive workplace where talent is encouraged to lead with imagination, collaborate across cultures, and grow through learning and mobility. Guided by its heritage and a forward-looking vision, Estée Lauder appeals to professionals seeking meaningful careers in a refined, international, and purpose-driven environment.

Role & Responsibilities

• Support the Employee Compensation Cost Capability pillar, including accounting and planning.
• Support the capability lead and team in establishing accounting and financial planning best practices, guidelines, and governance for global employee compensation costs across actuals, estimates, plans, and long-range plans.
• Identify global process best practices and ensure guidelines are operationalized.
• Manage accounting and planning for assigned employee cost areas, including monthly, quarterly, and annual expense monitoring, accruals, journal entries, reconciliations, results analysis, and comprehensive reporting to deadlines.
• Engage in Employee Compensation Cost and Analytics meetings, providing customer service for related platforms and dashboards to business units.
• Manage employee compensation cost reporting for executive management.
• Develop and monitor, under leadership guidance, modeling tools for employee compensation costs across productivity, demo, and MOH/DL.
• Assist in developing and monitoring employee compensation cost and headcount policies and practices, including account-use governance, taxonomies, and planning guidelines.
• Manage updates and quality assurance across data sources, dashboards, and reporting, including access controls.
• Support continuous process improvement by developing, monitoring, and reporting trend analyses, benchmarking, metrics, and KPIs, and providing analysis and insights to realize efficiencies.
• Collaborate with Managed Service resources supporting the capability pillar and with members of other functions, including Human Resources and Master Data Management, to achieve shared objectives.
• Support cross-functional requests for employee cost, headcount, and productivity analysis and reporting.
• Create and manage financial models and visualizations; provide modeling, reporting, analysis, and actionable insights for capability management and customers; monitor key metrics; and develop and implement tools and applications for continuous improvement, automation, and efficiency.
• Cross-train with the team to provide backup and support as required.
• Lead and support special projects, ad hoc assignments, and analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; CPA or a master’s degree is a plus.
• At least 5 years of Finance or Accounting experience, including process reengineering and project management.
• Excellent analytical capabilities, with the ability to translate data into executive-level insights and metrics.
• Advanced Excel and OneStream skills.
• Proficiency in SAP, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Ability to build and work with efficient models, analyses, and reports.
• Experience leading, aligning, and engaging teams around a shared vision.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, including direct interaction with senior management.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and multitask.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing senior management needs and direction.
• Excellent organizational, writing, and listening skills.
• The role is based in Melville or New York City, depending on final team member selections.

Skills

Experience

At least 5 years of Finance or Accounting experience, including process reengineering and project management.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; CPA or a master’s degree is a plus.

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 87,550 to USD 143,800 per annum.

Benefits

Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance; wellness and family support programs; life and disability insurance; retirement savings plans; paid leave programs; education-related programs; paid holidays; and vacation time. Many benefits are subsidized or fully paid by the company. The position is also eligible for a competitive bonus program, with possible overachievement based on performance and company results.

Culture

Estée Lauder fosters a high-performance, collaborative culture rooted in prestige beauty, innovation, and a deep understanding of consumers around the world. As an employer, the company values creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, inclusion, and continuous development, offering employees the opportunity to contribute to iconic brands while growing in a dynamic global environment.

About Cerulean

Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.