Manager, Finance - R&D and Innovation

At Revlon, we create beauty innovations for everyone that inspire confidence and ignite joy every day. Breaking beauty boundaries is in our company’s DNA. Since its game-changing launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932 (and later, the first long-wear foundation), Revlon has provided consumers with high-quality product innovation, performance, and sophisticated glamour. Elizabeth Arden made waves as a woman-led beauty company in the 1920s.

In 1931, Almay became the original hypoallergenic, fragrance-free beauty brand. Today, Revlon resiliently continues its legacy as a leading global beauty company. Our diverse portfolio—which consists of some of the world’s most iconic brands and product offerings in color cosmetics, skincare, hair color & care, personal care, and fragrances—is sold around the world through prestige, professional, mass, and direct-to-consumer retail channels.

These brands include Revlon, Revlon Professional, Elizabeth Arden, Almay, American Crew, CND, Cutex, Mitchum, Sinful Colors, Creme of Nature, Christina Aguilera, John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Ed Hardy and more.

We honor our heritage, embrace change, and applaud diversity. We champion our employees and celebrate our consumers.

We are Revlon, together, transforming beauty.

This role is a Hybrid Role: Employees are expected to work from our office 3 days per week and may work remotely the remaining days.

Summary

The Finance Manager, R&D and Innovation serves as a key finance business partner supporting Global R&D, Product Development, and Innovation teams. This role has primary responsibility for gross margin and margin-accretion analysis, product profitability evaluation, and financial assessment of new product development initiatives. The position develops business cases for new product launches and line extensions, supports innovation pipeline evaluation and stage-gate decision making, and provides commercial modeling that incorporates market-share and category-growth assumptions.

The role also quantifies the financial benefits of formula harmonization and complexity-reduction initiatives, helping balance growth opportunities with margin, productivity, and profitability objectives. Working closely with R&D, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, and Brand Finance teams, the Finance Manager delivers actionable insights that support successful innovation investments and commercialization strategies. In addition, the Finance Manager will support financial planning and reporting activities for the R&D and Innovation organization, including budgeting, forecasting, month-end analysis, and management reporting.

Key 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…