Inventory Staff Accountant

Selby Jennings; Pine Bluff (AR); On-site; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a skilled Inventory Accountant to manage raw materials, WIP, and finished goods inventories, while analyzing standard vs actual costs and maintaining robust controls. The role supports month-end close and collaborates with operations to drive accuracy.

Responsibilities include journal entries, variances, and ERP-related process improvements to optimize inventory reporting and cost management in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• 2+ years of accounting experience with exposure to inventory, cost accounting, or manufacturing accounting.
• Strong understanding of inventory valuation, costing methodologies, and U.S. GAAP.
• Experience reconciling inventory balances, preparing journal entries, and supporting month-end close.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations, and data analysis.
• Experience working within an ERP system; manufacturing ERP experience preferred.
• Ability to analyze cost variances, inventory movements, and operational data.
• Strong attention to detail with a proven ability to identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Ability to partner effectively with operations, warehouse, receiving, and leadership teams.
• Experience within food manufacturing, agribusiness, grain processing, commodities, or other manufacturing environments is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate inventory records for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, packaging materials, and byproducts.
• Calculate and analyze standard and actual product costs, including production yields, overhead absorption, and conversion costs.
• Investigate and explain inventory, production, and cost variances.
• Prepare inventory-related journal entries, accruals, reserves, and month-end close schedules.
• Reconcile perpetual inventory records to the general ledger and physical inventory counts.
• Coordinate monthly and annual inventory counts and resolve count-to-book variances.
• Develop and strengthen inventory controls, procedures, and reporting processes.
• Partner with plant operations and receiving teams to improve inventory accuracy and transaction processing.
• Produce inventory reports, aging analyses, and operational metrics for management.
• Support borrowing base reporting, budgeting, audits, and lender requests.
• Assist with ERP enhancements, process improvements, and automation initiatives.

Skills

Accounting experience

Inventory accounting

Cost accounting

Manufacturing accounting

U.S. GAAP

Journal entries

Month-end close

Advanced Excel

ERP experience

Cost variance analysis

Detail-oriented

Operations collaboration

Food manufacturing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

ERP system experience

Job description

• 2+ years of accounting experience with exposure to inventory accounting, cost accounting, or manufacturing accounting.
• Strong understanding of inventory valuation, costing methodologies, and U.S. GAAP.
• Experience reconciling inventory balances, preparing journal entries, and supporting month-end close.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations, and data analysis.
• Experience working within an ERP system; manufacturing ERP experience preferred.
• Ability to analyze cost variances, inventory movements, and operational data.
• Strong attention to detail with a proven ability to identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Ability to partner effectively with operations, warehouse, receiving, and leadership teams.
• Experience within food manufacturing, agribusiness, grain processing, commodities, or other manufacturing environments is highly preferred.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• 2+ years of accounting experience with exposure to inventory accounting, cost accounting, or manufacturing accounting.
• Strong understanding of inventory valuation, costing methodologies, and U.S. GAAP.
• Experience reconciling inventory balances, preparing journal entries, and supporting month-end close.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations, and data analysis.
• Experience working within an ERP system; manufacturing ERP experience preferred.
• Ability to analyze cost variances, inventory movements, and operational data.
• Strong attention to detail with a proven ability to identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Ability to partner effectively with operations, warehouse, receiving, and leadership teams.
• Experience within food manufacturing, agribusiness, grain processing, commodities, or other manufacturing environments is highly preferred.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate inventory records for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, packaging materials, and byproducts.
• Calculate and analyze standard and actual product costs, including production yields, overhead absorption, and conversion costs.
• Investigate and explain inventory, production, and cost variances.
• Prepare inventory-related journal entries, accruals, reserves, and month-end close schedules.
• Reconcile perpetual inventory records to the general ledger and physical inventory counts.
• Coordinate monthly and annual inventory counts and resolve count-to-book variances.
• Develop and strengthen inventory controls, procedures, and reporting processes.
• Partner with plant operations and receiving teams to improve inventory accuracy and transaction processing.
• Produce inventory reports, aging analyses, and operational metrics for management.
• Support borrowing base reporting, budgeting, audits, and lender requests.
• Assist with ERP enhancements, process improvements, and automation initiatives.