Sr Mgr, Finance (Skincare & Fragrances)
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Finance serves as a strategic business partner to the Skincare and Fragrances leadership team, providing financial expertise, strategic insights, and recommendations to drive growth and maximize the P&L. The role manages budgeting, forecasting, and monitoring of business performance, including brand and customer sales, trade spending, cost of goods sold, distribution, brand support, and departmental spending. It also provides financial oversight for fragrance license management, including acquisition and renewal processes. The position partners with cross-functional teams on monthly P&L reviews, forecasts, budgets, strategic plans, advertising and promotional investment analysis, commercialization, go-to-market analysis, marketplace monitoring, new product development, assortment and margin optimization, and working capital management. It also presents monthly financial results to management, leads improvement projects, performs strategic reviews of brands and contracts, and ensures governance, control, and compliance with corporate and external procedures and audits. This is a hybrid role. Employees are expected to work from the New York office three days per week and may work remotely the remaining days. The base pay range is $130,000–$160,000 per year. Short-term incentives may also be available for certain positions. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa support.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of finance experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Experience working with sales, marketing, and supply chain teams.
- Knowledge of Sarbanes/Oxley.
- Strong systems experience, including expertise in Microsoft Excel, SAP, and Hyperion.
- Excellent time management, organizational, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated self-starter and leadership capabilities.
Nice To Haves
- 3–5 years of experience in Consumer Products.
- MBA preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage monthly P&L reviews with cross-functional teams, providing insights to drive profitable growth and mitigate risk.
- Explain key P&L drivers for the period versus forecast, budget, and prior year, including customer and product volume and mix, trade spending, advertising, and promotions.
- Prepare and consolidate monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and strategic plans with Brand Management, Customer Planning & Strategy, and Sales as part of the S&OP process.
- Analyze proposed advertising, promotional spending, and other activation investments using pre- and post-activity ROI analytics.
- Support commercialization and go-to-market analysis.
- Work with cross-functional teams to monitor POS performance, market share, and category growth trends, and recommend actions based on those trends.
- Support new product development, including innovation and renovation, with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Optimize portfolio assortment using SKU-level performance, innovation plans, and market trends, and recommend assortment enhancements.
- Optimize gross margin through pricing, mix management, cost improvement, and innovation.
- Support working capital optimization, including inventory portfolio optimization, product life-cycle expectations, excess and obsolete inventory monitoring, and sell-through recommendations.
- Foster positive, collaborative relationships within the finance team and with cross-functional and regional leadership.
- Identify gaps and lead improvement projects with key stakeholders.
- Ensure ongoing governance, control, and compliance with corporate and external procedures and audits.
- Perform strategic reviews of brands and other key business contracts.
- Present monthly financial results to management.
- Provide financial oversight for fragrance license management, including acquisition and renewal processes.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Company-paid basic life insurance
- Company-paid short-term disability insurance, beginning upon hire and providing a portion of base salary for up to 26 weeks if disabled
- Long-term disability
- Supplemental life insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Critical illness insurance
- Group legal insurance
- Identity theft protection
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Three weeks of vacation, prorated during the first year based on date of hire
- Twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Short-term incentives may be available for certain positions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
