Finance Manager, R&D & Innovation - Hybrid

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

Company-paid life insurance

Short-term disability

401k plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

Revlon is seeking a Finance Manager for R&D and Innovation to partner with Global R&D, Product Development, and Innovation teams. This role focuses on gross margin, product profitability, and financial assessments for new launches and line extensions.

You will develop business cases, support budgeting and forecasting for the R&D and Innovation organization, and collaborate across Marketing, Supply Chain, and Operations to optimize profitability and growth.

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.

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.
• 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

Financial modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial analysis

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

Excel

Job description

Revlon is seeking a Finance Manager for R&D and Innovation to partner with Global R&D, Product Development, and Innovation teams. This role focuses on gross margin, product profitability, and financial assessments for new launches and line extensions.

You will develop business cases, support budgeting and forecasting for the R&D and Innovation organization, and collaborate across Marketing, Supply Chain, and Operations to optimize profitability and growth.