Finance & Procurement Analyst

Formulated Automation; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Formulated Automation is seeking a Finance & Procurement Analyst to own hardware procurement, inventory, and vendor operations for a security tech client. You’ll manage orders, pricing, and supplier relationships to ensure timely delivery at the right cost.

Reporting to the VP of Strategic Finance, you’ll ramp up quickly, implement stronger controls, improve forecasting, and broaden the vendor base while maintaining accurate asset and warranty records across remote operations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in inventory management, procurement, or accounting with inventory exposure.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills to turn sales data into stocking plans.
• Strong controls mindset, including order, PO, and invoice matching.
• Ability to work independently, ramp up quickly, and take ownership.
• Builder mentality, with a focus on improving processes rather than maintaining them.
• Highly organized with well-documented workflows and reliable tracking systems.
• Clear written and verbal communication across Sales, CS, EPD, Finance, and vendors.
• Willingness to learn quickly (hardware expertise not required on day one).

Responsibilities

• Vendor Management & Procurement: Manage day-to-day hardware vendor relationships, orders, lead times, inventory allocations, export docs, and escalations.
• Inventory Planning & Tracking: Own inventory planning, stocking proposals based on forecasts, and maintain SKU/config cost matrix.
• Asset & Warranty Management: Maintain service tags, deployment nodes, and warranty records; manage renewals and transfers.
• Process Improvement: Document, streamline, and automate processes as volume grows; strengthen controls around orders, POs, and invoices.

Skills

Inventory management

Procurement

Advanced Excel

Strong controls

Independent worker

Process improvement

Clear communicator

Vendor management

Job description

Hi there! We are South and our client is looking for a Finance & Procurement Analyst!

About The Company

Our client is a leader in Agentic Physical Security. Its platform turns existing cameras, sensors, and access control systems into a unified intelligence layer that continuously perceives, understands, and acts in real time. At its core is an always-on, edge-optimized reasoning Vision-Language Model (VLM) purpose-built for physical security.

By reasoning across video, access, and sensor data, the platform detects and interprets 150+ threat signatures, validates real risk, and orchestrates the appropriate response. Its capabilities span agentic monitoring, investigations, access intelligence, and threat analysis and response. As a result, customers reduce false alarms by over 90%, accelerate investigations from days to minutes, and resolve more than 80% of alerts in under a minute.

Trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises across campuses, data centers, and critical infrastructure, our client delivers proactive safety, operational efficiency, and measurable ROI at enterprise scale. Because the platform runs on edge servers deployed at customer sites, hardware operations is a core driver of its growth.

About The Role

We're looking for a Finance & Procurement Analyst to own hardware procurement, inventory, and vendor operations end to end for our client. This role owns the process of getting the right hardware to the right place, on time, and at the right cost.

You'll report to the VP of Strategic Finance and work closely with Sales, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, EPD, Finance, and external vendors. You'll take over day-to-day operations within the first month, then drive how the function scales through tighter controls, sharper forecasting, a broader vendor base, and improved asset tracking.

This is a high-visibility role overseeing significant capital outlays, with a direct impact on our client's growth. We're looking for someone who can ramp up quickly, take ownership, and bring solutions and recommendations rather than open questions.

Location:

100% remote

Responsibilities

Vendor Management & Procurement

• Manage the day-to-day relationship with hardware vendors, including order submissions, order status, lead times, inventory allocations, export documentation, and escalations
• Release purchase orders (POs) to vendors against confirmed customer orders
• Verify customer orders, pricing, POs, and vendor invoices before release and payment
• Source and qualify additional hardware vendors, working with EPD on specifications
• Lead vendor onboarding and support Finance with pricing negotiations
• Serve as the internal point of contact for hardware operations issues, including availability, lead times, shipping, and import terms

Inventory Planning & Tracking

• Own inventory planning and tracking, including stocking proposals based on sales forecasts
• Turn sales pipeline reports into forecast-driven hardware stocking plans
• Maintain the SKU and configuration cost matrix across core SKUs and variants
• Support pilot fleet inventory management in collaboration with Sales Engineering

Asset & Warranty Management

• Maintain service tag, deployment node, and warranty records with Customer Success, and improve the system of record
• Manage warranty renewals and transfers, coordinating with Sales, CS, and vendors to proactively maintain coverage
• Partner with the Hardware Support team, which owns customer support tickets and repairs, on hardware issues affecting inventory, warranties, or vendor management

Process Improvement

• Document, streamline, and automate processes as operational volume grows
• Strengthen controls around order, PO, and invoice matching
• Identify opportunities to improve tracking, reporting, and vendor operations as the business scales

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in inventory management, procurement, or accounting with inventory exposure
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, with the ability to turn sales pipeline reports into hardware stocking plans
• Strong controls mindset, including order, PO, and invoice matching, process discipline, and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently, ramp up quickly, and take ownership
• Builder mentality, with a focus on improving processes rather than simply maintaining them
• Ability to bring solutions and recommendations instead of open questions
• Highly organized and process-oriented, with well-documented workflows and reliable tracking systems
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work seamlessly across Sales, CS, EPD, Finance, and external vendors
• Willingness to learn quickly (hardware expertise is not required on day one)

Nice to Have

• Experience in hardware-enabled SaaS or IT hardware
• Experience managing vendor relationships, lead times, and allocations
• Familiarity with import/export documentation and shipping terms
• Experience maintaining asset, serial number, or warranty tracking systems
• Experience building forecasts, dashboards, or automated workflows

What Success Looks Like

• Day 30: Independently manages PO releases, inventory tracking, vendor communication, and asset tracking, with limited day-to-day manager involvement
• Day 60: Monthly, forecast-driven stocking proposals are in place and running consistently
• Day 90: Additional vendors have been qualified, an operating playbook is documented, and recommendations for process improvements are ready
• Over time: Keep POs, inventory, and warranty records accurate and up to date, and scale the function with tighter controls and better visibility