Finance Manager, R&D & Innovation (Hybrid)

Revlon Corporate; Kenilworth (NJ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k plan

Vacation & holidays

Job summary

Revlon is seeking a Finance Manager, R&D and Innovation to serve as a key finance business partner for Global R&D, Product Development, and Innovation. You will own gross margin analysis, model financial scenarios, and build business cases for new product launches, balancing growth with profitability.

You will collaborate with Marketing, Supply Chain, and Brand Finance to deliver insights, manage budgets and forecasts, and provide executive-ready reporting for senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 5+ years of FP&A, Commercial Finance, Brand Finance, Innovation Finance, or related experience.
• Advanced financial modeling and scenario analysis skills.
• Experience building business cases for new products, innovation projects, or commercialization initiatives.
• Strong experience with gross margin analysis, and product profitability evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating margin accretion or dilution for new products, line extensions, and innovation portfolios.
• Experience quantifying financial benefits from complexity reduction, formula harmonization, value engineering, or SKU rationalization initiatives.
• Experience developing market-share and growth estimates and translating market assumptions into volume, revenue, margin, and cash-flow forecasts.
• Experience supporting new product development (NPD), product launches, or innovation initiatives.
• Experience supporting stage-gate governance and conducting pre-launch, launch, and post-launch financial assessments.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills.
• Advanced Excel and financial analysis capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead gross margin analysis and product profitability assessments for innovation and new product development initiatives.
• Assess margin accretion and dilution for new products and line extensions, including mix, pricing, cost, cannibalization, and portfolio impacts.
• Quantify complexity-reduction benefits across formulas, ingredients, packaging components, SKUs, and manufacturing processes, including savings, working-capital, and service-level implications.
• Evaluate formula harmonization opportunities and develop financial scenarios that balance cost savings, product performance, regulatory requirements, and commercialization risk.
• Build robust business cases for new product launches, including revenue forecasts, investment requirements, ROI analysis, payback modeling, and margin assessments.
• Estimate market share, category growth, distribution, velocity, pricing, and cannibalization for line extensions and new products; translate commercial assumptions into revenue, gross margin, and cash-flow scenarios.
• Perform pre-launch and post-launch financial assessments, including readiness, launch investment, volume and margin delivery, forecast accuracy, line trials expense, new product capital investment, and corrective-action recommendations.
• Develop financial models supporting innovation pipeline evaluation, portfolio prioritization, and long-range growth planning.
• Manage the financial workstream within the innovation stage-gate process, establishing financial deliverables and decision criteria, validating assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities, and providing clear go, hold, revise, or stop recommendations.
• Partner with R&D, Product Development, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams to evaluate commercialization opportunities and investment trade-offs.
• Analyze post-launch performance against business case expectations and recommend actions to improve future innovation returns.
• Support Design-to-Value, formulation, packaging, and productivity initiatives through financial analysis and profitability assessments.
• Prepare executive-ready reporting, presentations, and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Manage the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly spending analysis for the R&D and Innovation organization.
• Prepare month-end reporting, analyze actual results versus budget and forecast, and provide actionable recommendations to business partners.
• Partner with functional leaders to identify spending risks and opportunities and ensure accurate financial projections.
• Support long-range planning activities and resource allocation decisions for R&D and Innovation investments.
• Drive forecasting, budgeting, month-end reporting, and variance analysis for supported functions.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial modeling

Business cases

Gross margin analysis

Margin optimization

Complexity reduction

Market-share projections

NPD support

Stage-gate governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field

Job description

Revlon is seeking a Finance Manager, R&D and Innovation to serve as a key finance business partner for Global R&D, Product Development, and Innovation. You will own gross margin analysis, model financial scenarios, and build business cases for new product launches, balancing growth with profitability.

You will collaborate with Marketing, Supply Chain, and Brand Finance to deliver insights, manage budgets and forecasts, and provide executive-ready reporting for senior leadership.