About the Role
This fully remote role offers the flexibility to work from home while owning a highly visible seat at the table. You'll report directly to the CFO, partner with executive leadership, and build the inventory accounting function with significant influence. This role provides autonomy, challenges, and a clear path to broader financial leadership.
Responsibilities
- Own inventory accounting and financial reporting across multiple divisions and locations.
- Maintain accurate inventory valuation using standard cost, average cost, and other appropriate methodologies.
- Manage cost rolls, standard cost updates, cost adjustments, and inventory revaluations.
- Analyze purchase price variances, manufacturing variances, and inventory discrepancies.
- Ensure inventory subledgers reconcile to the general ledger.
- Partner with warehouse and manufacturing managers on physical inventories, cycle counts, inventory movement, and accuracy.
- Partner with Controllers to ensure accurate month-end and year-end financial reporting.
- Lead and support physical inventory counts and inventory audit activities.
- Develop and improve inventory controls, policies, and costing procedures.
- Prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and inventory reporting schedules.
- Support external auditors with inventory-related audit documentation.
- Recommend process improvements within ERP systems and inventory workflows.
- Travel domestically and internationally as needed (up to 25%) to support warehouse operations, inventory audits, ERP implementations, and finance initiatives.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Subject matter expert on inventory accounting.
- Partnering with Operations, Warehouse Management, Supply Chain, Controllers, and Finance to ensure inventory is accurately valued, properly controlled, and reported in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
- Thrives under pressure.
- Takes ownership.
- Enjoys solving complex operational and financial challenges.
- Confident communicator.
- Proactive, get-it-done leadership style.
Skills
- Inventory accounting
- Financial reporting
- Standard cost
- Average cost
- Cost rolls
- Standard cost updates
- Cost adjustments
- Inventory revaluations
- Purchase price variance analysis
- Manufacturing variance analysis
- Inventory discrepancy analysis
- General ledger reconciliation
- Physical inventory counts
- Cycle counts
- Inventory movement
- Month-end close
- Year-end close
- Audit support
- Inventory controls
- Costing procedures
- Journal entries
- Reconciliations
- ERP systems
- Inventory workflows
Location
- Remote (U.S.)
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- Manager
Benefits
- Fully remote work
- Light travel (up to 25%)
- Direct line to the CFO
- Seat on the Finance leadership team
- Ownership of a critical, high-visibility function
- Growth runway for future leadership opportunities
- Variety and challenge
- Stable, established company
About the Company
- ACT Entertainment has spent over 40 years driving innovation in the entertainment industry and is growing.
- A stable, established company with 40+ years in business and a track record of sustainable growth in the entertainment industry.
