Senior Accountant - Inventory

Alliance Resource Group; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Resource Group is partnering with a fast-growing beauty and personal care company to identify a Senior Accountant with strong inventory, COGS and multi-channel experience. This hands-on role reports to the Controller and offers ownership of inventory accounting and analysis of gross margin and operational performance.

The role involves reconciling inventory, supporting month-end close, and collaborating with operations and supply-chain teams to drive accuracy as the business scales.

Qualifications

• Approximately 4+ years of accounting experience.
• Hands-on inventory accounting and COGS experience.
• Experience supporting or owning month-end close.
• Ability to analyze large data sets and investigate discrepancies.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience working within an ERP environment.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable in a fast-growing environment with evolving processes.

Responsibilities

• Own key aspects of inventory and COGS accounting.
• Perform inventory reconciliations and roll-forwards.
• Support month-end close, journal entries and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Analyze COGS, gross margin and inventory-related variances.
• Investigate discrepancies across inventory systems, warehouses and fulfillment partners.
• Support inventory reserves, adjustments and obsolescence analysis.
• Partner with accounting, finance, operations and supply-chain teams.
• Help improve inventory controls, reporting and accounting processes.
• Analyze inventory and margin trends and identify potential issues.
• Support an increasingly complex multi-channel consumer-products business.

Skills

Inventory accounting

COGS

Month-end close

Excel

Data analysis

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Alliance Resource Group is partnering exclusively with a fast-growing beauty and personal care company to identify a Senior Accountant with strong experience across inventory, COGS and the accounting complexities of a physical-product business.

This is a hands-on role reporting closely to the Controller and offers the opportunity to take meaningful ownership of inventory accounting while also providing analysis around COGS, gross margin and operational performance.

The company operates across multiple sales channels, creating an environment where inventory accuracy, strong reconciliations and the ability to understand what's driving margin are increasingly important as the business scales.

What You'll Do

• Own key aspects of inventory and COGS accounting
• Perform inventory reconciliations and roll-forwards
• Support month-end close, journal entries and balance-sheet reconciliations
• Analyze COGS, gross margin and inventory-related variances
• Investigate discrepancies across inventory systems, warehouses and fulfillment partners
• Support inventory reserves, adjustments and obsolescence analysis
• Partner with accounting, finance, operations and supply-chain teams
• Help improve inventory controls, reporting and accounting processes
• Analyze inventory and margin trends and identify potential issues
• Support an increasingly complex multi-channel consumer-products business

What We're Looking For

• Approximately 4+ years of accounting experience
• Strong hands-on experience with inventory accounting and COGS
• Experience supporting or owning month-end close
• Ability to analyze large data sets and investigate discrepancies
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience working within an ERP environment
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-growing environment where processes continue to evolve

This role is on site 2x per week, with pay up to 110k plus bonus.