Costing Analyst

Joseph Ribkoff designs classic and contemporary garments for fashion-forward women with a youthful state of mind. Each one of our carefully tailored pieces offers the effortless fashion, fit, and quality that we’ve been synonymous with.
Over the years, the brand has blossomed into a touchstone for timeless, youthful style. Driven by a passion that has never ceased to propel our company’s vision, Joseph Ribkoff has been an ally to women, dressing them with flair and perfect fit for over 65 years. From our quality and distinctly designed products to our unwavering commitment to retail partners, Joseph Ribkoff’s values resonate in everything we do and create.
Today, his legacy lives on through the work of a devoted, talented team operating from the four corners of the world. Sold in over 60 international markets, Joseph Ribkoff is a global emblem of quality and elegance.
Montreal Corporate Head Office, where most of their employees are based, offers career opportunities in Design, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Finance, IT and HR as well as in the Production and Warehousing facilities.
Reporting to the Costing Manager, the Costing Analyst will participate in developing and delivering costing strategy to realize Joseph Ribkoff’ s financial and supply chain goals in a sustainable fashion while preserving design intent and quality promise to the customers.
Along with the finance team, while leveraging their understanding and experience of garment and accessory costing, the Costing Analyst will help set in place the foundational system, process and organizational enablers for best-in-class end to end costing.
**Core Accountabilities**:

- Participate in all the inventory costing activities of the company’s short and long-term financial goals.
- Continuously evolve end-to-end costing process, including the development of standards, policies and governance structure to improve efficiencies and deliver best costs.
- Identify and communicate cost saving opportunities based on data-driven analytics.
- Develop tools and platforms to drive faster, more transparent and reliable costing processes.
- Drive comprehensive policy of costing rate, method and reporting standardization enabling transparency and comparability of all quote rounds, vendors and product segments.
- Analyze development costing information to ensure accuracy and identify discrepancies. Maintain communication records to assure smooth workflow, timely approvals and problem resolution.
- Participate in the price setting process for local and international sales prices.
- Complete ad-hoc requests related to costing and pricing
- Run and analyze existing reports and edit/create new reports to support general business needs across Product Development, Materials & Color teams.
- Manage cost-pertinent information (Excel cost sheets, D365, for example) to ensure internal customers have access to timely and accurate data to make informed design, development and pricing decisions.

**Required Qualifications**:

- CPA designation is an asset
- 1 to 3 years in a manufacturing or product development environment
- 1 to 3 years of business analytics experience required
- Bachelor’s Degree - BA/BS in business or equivalent
- Possess analytical skills which lead to decision-making and problem-solving
- Willing to seek out information
- Ability to quickly assess and resolve situations with an appropriate sense of urgency
- Strong written/verbal communication
- Ability to effectively prioritize workloads, work cross-functionally within the company
- Flexible with multiple tasks and ability to work independently with mínimal supervision
- Experience in complex data analysis and strong computer skills are required
- High comfort level with extracting and combining data across multiple sources
- Possess a desire to learn and also demonstrate a spirit of service
- Experience in change management / business transformation initiatives with process, organization and technology changes, an asset
- Experience in collaborating with geographically distributed teams
- Apparel industry experience highly desirable
- Bilingual (French and English)

**What we offer at Joseph Ribkoff is**:

- A hybrid model (3 days a week in the office and 2 from home)
- Finish at 1:00 p.m. every Friday all year long
- 5 personal days per year
- Competitive group insurance (65% employer-paid)
- Equal-contribution pension plan (up to 2.5%)
- 11 statutory days off per year
- Flexible working hours
- Monthly social activities
- Wellness initiatives
- 40% employee discount on clothing
- Work with passionate people for a global Quebec company

Joseph Ribkoff is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.