Finance Manager - R&D & Innovation (Hybrid)

Revlon; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Company-paid life insurance

Short-term disability insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Revlon is hiring a Finance Manager, R&D and Innovation to partner with Global R&D, Product Development and Innovation teams. You will own margin analysis, profitability assessment, and business case development for new product launches.

Work closely with Marketing, Supply Chain, and Brand Finance to balance growth with productivity, manage budgets, and deliver executive-ready reporting. This hybrid New York role offers strong growth and exposure to strategic initiatives.

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.
• 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.

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.

Skills

FP&A

Financial modeling

Scenario analysis

Business case development

Advanced Excel

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Excel

Job description

Revlon is hiring a Finance Manager, R&D and Innovation to partner with Global R&D, Product Development and Innovation teams. You will own margin analysis, profitability assessment, and business case development for new product launches.

Work closely with Marketing, Supply Chain, and Brand Finance to balance growth with productivity, manage budgets, and deliver executive-ready reporting. This hybrid New York role offers strong growth and exposure to strategic initiatives.