Revlon hiring Senior Director, Finance (Global Inventory and Distribution) in New York City Metropolitan Area | LinkedIn (2024)

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, skin care, 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, SinfulColors, Creme of Nature, Britney Spears, 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.

Basic Function

The Sr Director, US Operations & Global Inventory Controller will drive Controlling excellence by optimizing data quality and accuracy, delivering actionable solutions, and creating valuable insights with a keen focus on cost-drivers, variances, trade-offs, and industry trends. This role will direct all aspects of US Plant distribution operations, including warehouse, 3PLs, inbound and outbound freight.

In addition, the Sr Director will lead all aspects of global inventory accounting, including improving and streamlining processes and internal controls, ensuring accuracy of inventory close data, and communicating key reporting insights and opportunities for global improvement, cost-savings, and efficiency.

Major Duties

• Partner with operations management to understand performance, optimize operational decisions, design, and execute long-range strategies, and manage cost improvement opportunities.
• Lead a strong financial and operating control environment directing Sarbanes – Oxley process testing and improvements, driving accounting procedures, and ensuring compliance to GAAP/SOX.
• Develop, in partnership with Accounting, a global Inventory policy and drive the implementation by creating process flows.
• Manage continuous improvement and efficiency of the budgeting and forecasting process while ensuring a high level of accuracy, leveraging systems capabilities, and enhancing metric and bench marking routines.
• Direct routine financial analysis and coordinate the completion and reporting for global inventory and distribution operations groups and departments.
• Direct standardized and quality US Region Inventory month-end closes, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and related variance analysis.
• Development and training of staff to support departmental and corporate objectives and enhance employee career development.
• Lead ad-hoc financial analysis for any special projects as required

Knowledge And Skills Required

• Minimum Education Required: Bachelor’s degree with CPA/MBA preferred
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience required
• Understanding of the Balance Sheet Inventory accounts and reconciliation processes.
• Experience related to policy and process improvements.
• Cost Accounting, Standard Costing, GAAP, Sarbanes – Oxley
• Solid skills and knowledge of accounting (GAAP) principles
• Strong knowledge base and working skills with cost accounting, standard costing, standard setting, COGS, inventory accounting
• Prior experience in global leadership function.
• Capital budgeting and accounting
• Expense budgeting
• Outstanding analytical skills and abilities
• Ability to present information and analysis in a meaningful, timely and user-friendly manner
• Must be able to deal effectively with all levels for the Operations Group and Operations and Corporate Finance organization around the world.
• Strong Analytical and Business skills.
• Change agent
• Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma background
• Ability to set and meet high standards for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis for all Operations units around the world.
• Influencing skills; business partnering expertise; strong mentoring skills
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral).

The base pay range for this position in New York City is $180,000 - $215,000/year; however base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. Certain positions may also be eligible for short and/or long-term incentives as part of total compensation.