Senior Inventory Accountant

As a Senior Financial Accountant specialising in Inventory, you will serve as the finance department's subject-matter expert on inventory accounting, valuation, and controls. You will own the accuracy, completeness, and compliance of inventory reporting across multiple locations and warehouses, work that directly underpins the financial integrity of the business. Sitting at the intersection of finance, supply chain, and operations, you will translate complex stock movements into clear financial insights, shape costing methodology, and build the controls that protect margins. This is a role with genuine scope: your work will influence how leadership understands product economics and where the business chooses to act.

The day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for inventory, cost of goods sold (COGS), and stock valuation, ensuring precise reconciliation with the general ledger.
• Prepare complex general ledger entries, including standard cost adjustments, slow-moving and obsolete inventory provisions (SLOB), and purchase price variance (PPV) analysis.
• Reconcile physical inventory, sub-ledgers, and warehouse management systems (WMS) to ERP financial modules, resolving discrepancies at source.
• Oversee and optimise cycle counting programmes and coordinate annual physical inventory counts with warehouse teams and external auditors.
• Manage the end-to-end costing process (standard, FIFO, or average cost), investigating cost variances and recommending adjustments to protect margins.
• Support month-end and year-end close processes, proactively identifying and resolving inventory cut-off issues ahead of reporting deadlines.
• Act as the primary point of contact for external auditors on all inventory and costing queries, preparing robust audit working papers with a high degree of rigour.
• Evaluate, design, and implement internal controls over inventory management on an ongoing basis, reducing risk and improving operational efficiency.