Senior Inventory Accounting Lead

Gelmart International / Rafar Group; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Rafar Group Companies seeks a hands-on Inventory Lead to maintain accurate inventory quantities, costs, and financial records across Gelmart and related brands. You will supervise one Inventory Support team member and ensure strong controls from goods in transit to on-hand balances and COGS.

Collaborate with Accounting, AP, Logistics, Sourcing, and warehouse partners to connect physical inventory activity to financial records, resolve cutoffs, and drive month-end close.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in inventory accounting or related operations.
• Experience with FIFO valuation, landed costs, in-transit inventory, cost of goods sold, inventory reserves.
• Ability to connect item-level activity to financial records and investigate differences.
• Strong Excel, reconciliation, and data analysis skills.
• Experience training or supervising a support team and coordinating with operations.
• Experience with Exenta, NetSuite, or Dynamics 365 BC is preferred.
• Familiarity with AI tools for document processing is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile inventory quantities and movements across systems, investigate variances and unmatched transactions.
• Prepare monthly FIFO on-hand and in-transit schedules under approved policies; validate receipts and cutoff.
• Reconcile costs, landed costs, and broker activity; coordinate cost accruals with AP and Accounting.
• Tie inventory valuations to the general ledger; prepare accruals and adjustment recommendations.
• Monitor aging, velocity, recoverability; coordinate sell-through or disposition plans.
• Maintain reserve calculations and roll forwards; reconcile to the general ledger.
• Coordinate physical-count and cycle-count support with Operations; document adjustments.
• Maintain audit-ready support and track findings through resolution.
• Lead Inventory Support team member; provide training and backup coverage.
• Learn Exenta, NetSuite, and Dynamics 365 BC; improve matching and valuation workflows.
• Own EOS scorecard updates for inventory measures; report exceptions and actions.

Skills

Inventory reconciliations

Month-end close

Data analysis

Process improvement

Team supervision

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

Exenta

NetSuite

Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC

Job description

Rafar Group Companies seeks a hands-on Inventory Lead to maintain accurate inventory quantities, costs, and financial records across Gelmart and related brands. You will supervise one Inventory Support team member and ensure strong controls from goods in transit to on-hand balances and COGS.

Collaborate with Accounting, AP, Logistics, Sourcing, and warehouse partners to connect physical inventory activity to financial records, resolve cutoffs, and drive month-end close.