Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ACT Entertainment is an established company in the entertainment industry. The Cost Accounting Manager will lead inventory accounting, valuation, costing, controls, and financial reporting across multiple divisions and warehouse locations, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP. The role partners with Operations, Supply Chain, Controllers, Finance, auditors, and warehouse teams while improving ERP processes and inventory workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own inventory accounting and financial reporting across multiple divisions and locations
- Maintain accurate inventory valuation using standard cost, average cost, and other appropriate methodologies
- Manage cost rolls, standard cost updates, cost adjustments, and inventory revaluations
- Analyze purchase price variances, manufacturing variances, and inventory discrepancies
- Ensure inventory subledgers reconcile to the general ledger
- Partner with warehouse and manufacturing managers on physical inventories, cycle counts, inventory movement, and accuracy
- Partner with Controllers to ensure accurate month-end and year-end financial reporting
- Lead and support physical inventory counts and inventory audit activities
- Develop and improve inventory controls, policies, and costing procedures
- Prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and inventory reporting schedules
- Support external auditors with inventory-related audit documentation
- Recommend process improvements within ERP systems and inventory workflows
- Travel domestically and internationally as needed (up to 25%) to support warehouse operations, inventory audits, ERP implementations, and finance initiatives
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Benefits
- Fully remote work — work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Direct line to the CFO and a genuine seat on the Finance leadership team
- Ownership of a critical, high-visibility function
- A growth runway — this role is explicitly built as a foundation for future leadership opportunities within Finance
- Variety and challenge — no two days look the same, spanning costing, ERP process improvement, audits, and cross-functional partnership with Operations and Supply Chain
- A stable, established company — 40+ years in business with a track record of sustainable growth in the entertainment industry
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