Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BELAY is hiring a Senior Inventory Accountant to manage inventory and cost accounting across multiple client accounts and provide clients with accurate financial information and practical guidance. The role covers reconciliations, month-end close, financial reporting, inventory-system implementations and integrations, and process improvement.
Responsibilities
- As a BELAY Team member, you will professionally represent the company in all virtual and in-person interactions. You are expected to exemplify our mission, vision, and core values daily, fostering a collaborative and positive team environment
- Serve as a primary client resource for inventory, cost accounting, COGS, inventory systems, and related accounting matters
- Lead client discussions, explain complex accounting and system concepts, and provide practical recommendations
- Manage recurring inventory accounting, including reconciliations, inventory adjustments, costing, COGS, and month-end close activities
- Analyze inventory balances, standard and landed costs, gross margin, and variances to identify discrepancies and accounting issues
- Investigate inventory variances and system discrepancies and determine appropriate accounting treatment in partnership with clients
- Maintain accurate inventory and accounting records and ensure compliance with accounting standards, internal controls, and BELAY processes
- Support implementation, configuration, maintenance, and optimization of inventory management systems and related integrations
- Prepare, map, validate, and migrate inventory data, including SKUs, costs, vendors, customers, and other system data
- Troubleshoot system, sync, and integration issues across inventory, e-commerce, and accounting platforms
- Test system functionality and accounting outputs to ensure transactions flow accurately between connected systems
- Train clients on inventory systems, accounting processes, and best practices and maintain supporting documentation
- Prepare and review financial statements and inventory-related reporting
- Analyze COGS, gross margin, inventory turnover, and other relevant financial and operational KPIs
- Help clients understand the financial impact of inventory, costing, purchasing, and operational decisions
- Identify trends, risks, process gaps, and opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, reporting, and automation
- Partner with Accounting Managers, Controllers, and internal teams to resolve complex issues and support client needs
- Support client onboarding and transitions involving inventory accounting, systems, and integrations
- Assist with inventory cleanup, system setup, data validation, and reconciliation activities
- Develop and document standardized inventory accounting processes and best practices
- Support special projects and system implementations as assigned
- Collaborate across BELAY teams to deliver a consistent, high-quality client experience
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 4–8 years of progressive accounting experience, preferably in client-service, outsourced accounting, or inventory-focused environments
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial statements, reconciliations, month-end close, inventory, and cost accounting
- Demonstrated experience with inventory accounting, COGS, inventory reconciliations, or cost accounting
- Experience with inventory management systems, accounting systems, and/or system integrations
- Proficiency with QuickBooks Online and related accounting applications
- Excellent client communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage multiple clients, systems, and deadlines in a remote environment
- High attention to detail, organization, and follow-through
- Strong technical accounting and cost accounting knowledge
- Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to identify and resolve inventory, accounting, and system discrepancies
- Strong understanding of the relationship between operational, inventory, and accounting systems
- Strong client communication and relationship-management skills
- Ability to explain complex accounting and system concepts clearly
- Strong technology aptitude and ability to learn new systems quickly
- Ability to manage multiple clients, projects, and competing priorities
- Strong organization, time management, and follow-through
- Sound judgment and ability to recognize when issues require escalation
- Demonstrated accountability, ownership, adaptability, and professional maturity
- Experience with inventory management systems or ERP platforms such as Cin7 CORE, Netsuite, SAP, or comparable platforms
- Experience with e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Amazon, A2X, or similar systems
- Experience with standard costing, landed costing, inventory valuation, or related cost accounting methodologies
- Experience supporting IMS implementations, system migrations, or accounting system integrations
- Experience working with inventory-driven, e-commerce, manufacturing, wholesale, or distribution businesses
- Experience training clients or users on accounting or inventory management systems
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance are available to eligible employees. BELAY covers 70% of employee premiums and 65% of dependent premiums for medical, and 70% of employee premiums for dental and vision.
- Company-paid life insurance ($15,000 coverage) and short-term/long-term disability coverage (STD: 60% of weekly earnings up to $1,500; LTD: 60% of monthly earnings up to $10,000) are provided at no cost to full-time employees.
- 401(k) plan through Vanguard, with a 4% employer discretionary match. Employees are eligible after 90 days of employment.
- Full-time (40 hr/week) employees receive 15 days of PTO annually; full-time (30 hr/week) employees receive 12 days. Additional PTO is awarded at 3- and 5-year tenure milestones.
- 12 paid holidays annually (New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day After Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and one floating holiday of the employee’s choosing).
- Full-time employees’ PTO accrual generally satisfies state and local paid sick leave requirements in the states where BELAY hires. BELAY follows all state specific requirements.
- Full-time remote work within the U.S. in Eastern or Central Time Zones; BELAY is currently unable to hire employees in California, New York, Illinois, or Oregon.
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