Costing Insights & Analytics Analyst

VF Outdoor; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VF Outdoor is seeking an Analyst for Costing Reporting & Analytics to deliver standardized costing reports and actionable insights across categories and regions. The role collaborates with Costing, Sourcing Development, Product Supply Enablement, and Finance to track cost evolution and drive data-driven decisions.

The position emphasizes building a single source of truth, improving dashboards, and enabling proactive cost management with regular management reporting and ad-hoc analyses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Finance, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Data Analytics or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in analytics, business reporting, financial analysis, supply chain analytics or a related field.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, including data manipulation and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain standardized costing reports, dashboards and management views across categories and regions.
• Consolidate information from multiple sources to create clear, consistent and reliable reporting.
• Track cost evolution against targets and key business milestones.
• Establish recurring reporting on cost status, variance, movement, risks and opportunities.
• Ensure reporting is accurate, timely and consistent across teams.
• Maintain a clear source of truth for key costing metrics and performance indicators.
• Analyze data to identify trends, exceptions, risks and opportunities requiring management attention.
• Conduct variance and trend analysis to understand key drivers behind changes in cost performance.
• Develop analytical views across product, category, supplier, country and other relevant dimensions.
• Translate complex datasets into concise insights, business implications and areas requiring action.
• Support scenario analysis and forward-looking cost projections.
• Go beyond reporting results to identify and communicate the key drivers behind performance.
• Support Costing leadership with regular management reporting and business reviews.
• Monitor progress against cost objectives and highlight areas requiring intervention.
• Track cost-saving initiatives and provide visibility to progress and expected business impact.
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented analysis for leadership discussions and presentations.
• Support recurring reporting cadences across the Costing organization.
• Respond to ad-hoc analytical requirements from Costing leadership and key business partners.
• Establish and maintain common definitions, reporting structures and KPI methodologies.
• Improve and automate recurring reporting to reduce manual consolidation and increase efficiency.
• Support improvements to data structures, reporting tools and digital capabilities.
• Continuously improve dashboards and analytical tools based on evolving business requirements.
• Maintain strong data governance and documentation for key metrics and reporting methodologies.
• Identify opportunities to simplify reporting and improve accessibility and usability of data.
• Partner with Costing and regional teams to collect, validate and reconcile information.
• Work closely with Sourcing Development, Finance, Product Supply Enablement and other relevant functions to ensure alignment of data and reporting.
• Support cross-functional decision-making by providing clear and consistent insights.
• Build strong working relationships across functions and geographies to improve reporting discipline and data quality.
• Help strengthen analytical and data-driven decision-making capability across the Costing organization.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Excel

Job description

VF Outdoor is seeking an Analyst for Costing Reporting & Analytics to deliver standardized costing reports and actionable insights across categories and regions. The role collaborates with Costing, Sourcing Development, Product Supply Enablement, and Finance to track cost evolution and drive data-driven decisions.

The position emphasizes building a single source of truth, improving dashboards, and enabling proactive cost management with regular management reporting and ad-hoc analyses.