Avon Products, Inc. (AVP) is struggling on many fronts, which surely factored into Coty Inc.'s unsolicited proposal this week to buy Avon for $10 billion, a bid that the cosmetics giant rejected as undervalued. Even beyond that, though, Avon's FCPA woes in China continue, millions of dollars have been spent on the investigation and defense, and former CFO Charles Cramb (who became a vice chairman after his successor was hired), was ousted earlier this year as the investigation deepened. Avon is still looking to hire an outside CEO, and despite the bump to the stock price after the attempted takeover, Avon's stock is still trading more than 19% lower than it did a year ago. Despite all those challenges, one of the executives who is trying to keep the U.S.S. Avon upright in these troubled waters is its relatively new Executive Vice President and CFO, Kimberly Ross.