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 Inventory & Cost Accounting Manager leads inventory accounting, valuation, costing, controls, and financial reporting across multiple divisions and warehouse locations while partnering with Operations, Supply Chain, Controllers, and Finance.
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
Skills
- Work from anywhere in the U.S
- Occasional travel (up to 25%)
- Remote (U.S.)
- Travel domestically and internationally as needed (up to 25%) to support warehouse operations, inventory audits, ERP implementations, and finance initiatives
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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