Financial Analyst, Emerging Brands
Core
Product Cost Finance Partner supporting multiple brands (Eastpak, Jansport, Kipling, Smartwool, Ice Breaker, Napapijri) to turn product cost, duty, and tariff data into actions that improve margin outcomes.
Role type
Mid-level Product Cost Finance Analyst
Builds
Seasonal cost visibility, quantified savings pipelines, and decision support for go-to-market processes
Domain
Consumer goods (footwear and apparel) supply chain finance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work -> dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Financial analysis or FP&A experience, analytical capability with large datasets, quantification and validation of savings, understanding of FOB/duties/tariffs/COGS/gross margin, commercial curiosity, advanced Excel and financial modeling
Preferred skills
Footwear/apparel costing experience, tariff and duty analysis experience, business intelligence tools experience, high-growth consumer brand experience
Technologies
Excel, financial modeling tools, business intelligence tools, enterprise planning systems, product-costing platforms
Responsibilities
Establish benchmark-informed target FOB assumptions by product category, provide cost and margin insights at go-to-market milestones, build and maintain a quantified savings pipeline, track approved savings through production and reconcile cost outcomes, monitor actualization of Product Supply savings monthly, assess tariff and duty exposure, govern FOB from cost sheet to production purchase orders, identify incremental cost opportunities, help establish repeatable costing methods and data standards
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC