Financial Analyst

Our Vision: Empowering people with long-lasting, high-quality sportswear helps them succeed in their own lives, and makes them proud to be a part of something bigger than themselves.

Our Mission: Our objective is to be the world's best sportswear supplier for retailers, companies, and teams. 

Our Location: 

Our Seattle Fulfillment Center (SFC) is located in the heart of the Ikea Commercial District where we have 200,000 square feet of state of the art production and inventory. We maximize our facility with two shifts of production, five days per week. We enjoy a culturally diverse workforce and promote team-orientated solutions to delight our customers.

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Financial Analyst to join our Finance team. This role will play a critical part in delivering accurate royalty reporting to our licensing partners, supporting the annual budgeting process, and providing financial analysis that helps drive profitable growth across the business.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working with large, complex data sets, enjoys transforming raw data into meaningful insights, and is eager to partner with teams across the company to improve business performance.

Key Responsibilities:

Royalty Reporting

• Own the preparation and delivery of recurring royalty reports for licensing partners.
• Extract, validate, and analyze large sales data sets from multiple systems.
• Transform raw transactional data into accurate customer facing reports and supporting schedules.
• Continuously improve reporting processes through automation and standardization.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Support the annual budget and long-range planning process.
• Assist with monthly/quarterly forecasting and variance analysis.
• Prepare financial models and management reporting that provide actionable insights.
• Analyze trends in sales, margins, operating expenses, and profitability.

Business Analytics

• Perform ad hoc financial and operational analyses to identify opportunities to increase sales, improve margins, and reduce costs.
• Build dashboards and reports that help business leaders make data-driven decisions.
• Partner with Sales, Merchandising, Operations, and Marketing on strategic initiatives.
• Present findings and recommendations to Finance leadership.

Process Improvement

• Improve reporting efficiency through automation, advanced Excel modeling, and business intelligence tools.
• Develop standardized reporting and documentation to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Help enhance data quality and reporting capabilities across the organization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Analysis, Accounting, or Business Analytics.
• Advanced Excel skills including PivotTables, XLOOKUP, Sumifs, and complex formulas.
• Experience working with large data sets and ERP systems.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or similar analytics tools is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Experience:

• Consumer products, apparel, wholesale, retail, or ecommerce experience.
• Experience building automated reporting solutions.

Mindset and orientation:

• Adoption of Cutter & Buck’s Mission and Values.
• Maintaining a customer-first position.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, multitask, and demonstrate flexibility in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
• Embrace challenges, learn from criticism, and be willing to see effort as the path to mastery.

Work Environment:

• Reasonable proximity to Renton, Washington is required for mainly onsite work.
• On site is a professional office environment as our Headquarters and a warehouse environment; business-casual dress.

Our Workplace: Employees shall work in a non-hostile work environment. That is, the employee is expected not to engage in any activity that unreasonably interferes with performance of any other employee, such as sexual harassment, unlawful discrimination or any other behavior that unduly demeans or intimidates another employee.

Our Employees: Full Time Employees enjoy employer subsidized medical, dental and vision eligibility, Paid Sick leave and Annual Vacation leave. Employees are also eligible for participation in our 401k plan with company match and ten (10) paid holidays in a calendar year.

Cutter & Buck is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status or disability (in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act*), or any other legally protected status, with respect to employment opportunities. E-Verify: We verify the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired for employment in the United States.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment post-offer substance abuse testing, complete post-offer background check are required for all positions. A clear driving record may be required for Safety Sensitive and Sales positions.

Cutter & Buck, Inc. is a socially responsible company.