Senior Finance Analyst

A well-known retailer are looking for a Senior Finance Analyst with Inventory experience to join their team on an initial 6 month contract.

The purpose of this role is to ensure accountability for the overall accuracy and completeness of Inventory; both physical and financial.

Manage physical inventory controls, accurately completing a month end checklist.

Prepare and delivery monthly financial reconciliation and reports for Inventory reporting.

Manage and assist with processing of inventory adjustments, transfers and count adjustments.

Key Experience Required

Experience of detailed and complex balance sheet reconciliations, including Inventory.
Knowledge of accounting costing models, including standard costs.

Responsibilities

Inventory Control & Financial Reconciliation
Responsible for ensuring the system inventory quantities accurately reflects the actual physical balances across all locations.
Responsible for ensuring controls around inventory movement and transfers are maintained, by regularly checking unapproved/invalid locations for zero inventory values.
Applying business control and logic to ensure inventory balance integrity is maintained, challenging business change rationale.
Using Inventory management (BI) reporting and Financial Ledgers to reconcile and support the balance sheet values for Inventory in all locations
Financial reconciliation of landed cost elements, such as Freight and Duties, supporting periodic balance sheet values.
Periodic reporting of management accounts for warehouse, logistics and supply chain costs, including relevant KPIs.
Periodic reporting of management accounts reflecting accurate balance sheet values.
Inventory Processing Management
Responsibility for ensuring inventory adjustments and transfers are processed in AX in a timely manner.
Responsibility for ensuring timely reporting of inventory balance variances between AX, and Retail POD (Cegid) and WMS (Synapse) to NA IT Team.
Inventory Audit Processing Management
Ensuring up to date reporting on all inventory losses and related KPIs.
Manage scheduling and relationship with the 3rd party audit team (RGIS).

Qualifications