Staff Accountant, Inventory & Cost Accounting

Interlude Home, Inc.; Trumbull (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits package

Job summary

Interlude Home, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Accounting & Operations professional to own landed costs from supplier invoices to SKU-level allocations.

You will reconcile five inventory-related accounts each month and voucher foreign vendors, while also managing POs, freight, and customs to ensure timely deliveries. You will work closely with the warehouse and leadership team to price products based on landed costs, and you will own the monthly close, ensuring accuracy and timeliness across all

Qualifications

• Hands-on accounting experience in a product or inventory-based business.
• Working knowledge of landed cost (freight, duty, inbound charges) and SKU allocation.
• ERP fluency: you have lived in a system like P21, NetSuite, or SAP daily, and strong Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage purchase orders in ERP (P21) and keep ship dates/quantities current.
• Chase landed-cost invoices, verify ocean freight, build allocation sheets, and voucher invoices.
• Own monthly inventory reports and reconcile associated accounts.
• Voucher foreignInvoices and set up international payments; coordinate with freight and customs teams.
• Ensure timely delivery booking to avoid demurrage and storage charges.

Skills

Accounting

ERP software

Excel skills

Importing exposure

Tools

P21

NetSuite

SAP

Job description

Interlude Home is a fashion-inspired luxury furniture brand. Our upholstery is produced in our own Virginia factory, where we are COM specialists known for curved sectionals, custom beds, and statement seating. We sell through interior designers, retail trade partners, dealers, and wholesale accounts, with showrooms in New York, Miami, Stamford, and High Point.

Behind every piece on a showroom floor is a global supply chain of overseas partners, ocean freight, customs, and a warehouse team. This role sits at the center of it.

Your Role

This is a role with two halves, and they depend on each other. One half is accounting: you own landed cost from the first supplier invoice to the final SKU-level allocation, you reconcile five inventory-related balance sheet accounts every month, and you voucher and pay our foreign vendors. The other half is operations: you manage purchase orders in our ERP, track containers across the ocean, work with freight forwarders and customs agents to clear freight, and make sure delivery is booked before demurrage and storage charges start ticking.

The work falls into five core areas, and every one of them touches either what a product truly cost us or whether it arrived at all. Your customers are internal: the accounting team that closes the books on your numbers, the warehouse that receives against your paperwork, and the leadership team that prices product off your landed costs.

When the role is done well, product lands on time, costs land on the right SKU, and the balance sheet tells the truth. Both halves matter, and you will be measured on both.

What You Will Be Doing

1.Purchase Order Management

• Enter and maintain purchase orders in our ERP (P21), keeping ship dates and quantities current as suppliers revise them so the inbound pipeline is always accurate.
• Receive POs and produce the transfer report and receiving package the internal team relies on.

2.Landed Cost & Customs

• Chase down every landed-cost invoice before the container arrives, and verify ocean freight against the original quote.
• Build the landed cost allocation sheet and voucher supplier invoices with landed and fabric costs allocated correctly down to the SKU level.
• Review and approve CBP Entry Summaries, confirming declared value and correct duty rates.
• Ensure duty payments are made on time so shipments are never held at the terminal.
• Track arrival notices as ETAs approach, and work with freight forwarders, customs agents, and the drayage company to clear freight and customs holds.
• Book delivery promptly after discharge to avoid demurrage, storage, and chassis charges.
• Serve as the connection point between the overseas team, the warehouse, freight partners, and accounting to resolve short shipments, damage claims, and receiving discrepancies.

4.Inventory Control & Master Data

• Set up and maintain inventory items: FOB value, assigned supplier, measurements and cubes, descriptions.
• Process inventory adjustments and splits, and manage PD samples and QC inventory transfers.
• Issue the monthly inventory reports management uses to steer the business.
• Own the monthly reconciliation of Landed Cost Clearing, Inventory Clearing, Foreign Vendor PO Deposits, Foreign Vendor Inventory Prepayments, and Prepaid Fabric, including clearing AP invoice balances against the prepayment accounts.
• Voucher all foreign-related invoices (container prepayments, deposits, fabric, PD samples, swatches) and set up international wire and ACH payments.

What Success Looks Like

In your first 90 days:

• You are managing the PO lifecycle in P21 with growing independence, entering, revising, and receiving accurately with a light review behind you.
• You have run at least one full container cycle end to end: landed cost invoices collected before arrival, allocation sheet built, freight cleared, delivery booked with zero avoidable demurrage or storage charges.
• You have completed a monthly close cycle and produced clean reconciliations for the five inventory-related accounts, with aged items identified and explained.

By month six:

• Landed costs reach the SKU level on time every month with no post-close corrections: when a cost changes, it is because the cost changed, not because the allocation was wrong.
• No short shipment, damage claim, or receiving discrepancy stays open more than 30 days without a documented resolution plan.
• Reconciling items are cleared in the month they arise, and duty payments have never held a shipment at the terminal.
• The monthly inventory reports go out on schedule, and nobody has had to restate one because of a master data error.

What We Are Looking For

• Hands-on accounting experience in a product or inventory-based business: you have owned reconciliations, vouchered invoices, and closed months, not just watched it happen.
• Working knowledge of landed cost (freight, duty, and inbound charges) and why allocating it correctly to the SKU changes what a company believes about its margins.
• ERP fluency: you have lived in a system like P21, NetSuite, or SAP daily, and strong Excel skills you can demonstrate, not just claim.
• Exposure to importing (containers, freight forwarders, customs entries, or international vendor payments) is strongly preferred. If you have the accounting depth and learn operational domains fast, we will teach you the freight side.
• Follow-through under deadline pressure: demurrage clocks, duty due dates, and month-end close do not wait, and neither do you.
• A real interest in the product. We make furniture people fall in love with, and the best people here care that the numbers behind a curved sectional are as well made as the piece itself.

Who Thrives Here

People who like owning a domain end to end rather than handing work off at the edge of a job description. People who are equally comfortable on the phone with a drayage dispatcher and inside a five-account reconciliation. People who chase the invoice nobody sent, notice the duty rate that looks wrong, and consider a clean customs entry and a container delivered on time a satisfying week.

If you need every day to look the same, this role will frustrate you. ETAs move, suppliers revise, and the role rewards people who keep order inside the moving parts.

COMPENSATION: $70,000 to $80,000 annually

Full benefits package included. This is a role with real room to grow: for people who bring a growth mindset and expand what they own, there is upward mobility in both scope and compensation.