Overview
This role supports inventory-related accounting activities, including month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, account analysis, controls, and audit support. The position requires a detail-oriented accounting professional who can work with large volumes of operational and financial data, identify and resolve reconciling items, and support accurate, timely financial reporting in a complex operating environment.
The role partners with cross-functional teams to understand inventory activity, improve documentation, strengthen account reconciliations, and support consistent execution of inventory accounting processes. This position is especially important in a control-focused environment where the organization is strengthening processes, documentation, and controls related to journal entries and account reconciliations.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities related to inventory accounts.
- Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analyses, and supporting schedules.
- Analyze inventory-related activity to identify trends, discrepancies, reconciling items, and potential process issues.
- Research and resolve differences between operational records, subledger activity, and general ledger balances.
- Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready documentation supporting accounting conclusions, reconciliations, journal entries, and close deliverables.
Reconciliations, Controls & Compliance
- Prepare and maintain complex reconciliations for inventory and related balance sheet accounts.
- Investigate reconciling items and exceptions, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with cross-functional teams to drive timely resolution.
- Execute assigned SOX controls and maintain evidence demonstrating effective control performance and review readiness.
- Support improvements to reconciliation quality, documentation standards, control evidence, and close consistency across assigned accounting areas.
- Prepare well-supported journal entries, maintain high-quality reconciliations, resolve reconciling items timely, and improve documentation to support review, audit, and SOX requirements.
- Assist with internal and external audit requests by preparing clear schedules, supporting documentation, explanations, and follow-up responses.
Process Improvement & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, IT, FP&A, Internal Audit, SOX, and other accounting teams to obtain information, resolve issues, and support accurate financial results.
- Identify opportunities to improve manual workflows, strengthen documentation, enhance reconciliation quality, and improve consistency across assigned accounting areas.
- Communicate questions, risks, open items, and recommended solutions clearly and timely to management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience, including experience with month-end close, journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and audit support.
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and accounting documentation requirements.
- Experience working with operational or financial data and reconciling activity across multiple systems or data sources.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage deadlines and follow up on open items.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, conditional logic, data validation, and the ability to analyze large data sets.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain accounting issues clearly to both accounting and non-accounting stakeholders.
- High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, completeness, documentation discipline, and timely escalation.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA or CPA candidate preferred.
- Public company, public accounting, multi-location, high-volume transaction processing, or other complex operating environment experience.
- Experience with inventory accounting, cost accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, controls, or related operational accounting activity.
- Experience operating in a control-focused, remediation, transformation, or high-change environment.
Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation Range: $70,200.00 - $125,400.00
- Compensation Frequency: Annual
- Base pay may vary depending on actual location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- Supplemental pay types may include commissions or bonus incentives, depending on the role.
- Health and wellness benefits including paid time off and holiday pay.
- Early access to 50% of earned wages at any time.
Location
Equal Opportunity
Applicants for positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.