Associate Director, Inventory Data

About The Opportunity

We are hiring an Associate Director, Inventory Data to lead the integrity, governance, and financial correctness of the data that underpins inventory, cost of goods sold, and product costing. This is a senior cross-functional role for someone who can operate at the intersection of finance, operations, systems, product, and analytics to help ensure that inventory-related data is accurate, auditable, explainable, and trusted across the business.

What You Bring To The Table

• 7+ years of experience across inventory finance, operations finance, inventory product ownership, or similar fields
• Deep understanding of how inventory activity flows through operational systems into accounting and financial reporting
• Strong accounting foundation in inventory and COGS, including standard costing, bills of materials, and inventory valuation
• Strong experience with reconciliations, exception management, and data quality controls in complex or fast-changing environments, including building automated reconciliations, KPI frameworks, dashboards, and data quality monitoring
• Hands-on SQL proficiency sufficient to investigate and reconcile large inventory datasets independently - multi-table joins across transactional and master data, common table expressions, window functions (running balances, deduplication, period-over-period movement), conditional aggregation, date and period logic, point-in-time cost and price lookups, and multi-level bill of materials
• Experience with a cloud data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar) and authoring automated data quality tests, together with fluency in modern reporting and data tools and advanced Excel
• Experience in fast-growing, operationally complex environments that involve manufacturing or multi-site production
• Exposure to audit readiness, internal controls, or pre-IPO environments
• Proven ability to work effectively across Finance, Operations, Product, and Data teams
• Ability to translate complex system behavior into clear business and financial insight for senior stakeholders

The Impact You'll Make

• Represent Finance Data & Systems in evaluating and shaping decisions that impact the financial integrity of core inventory-related datasets, including inventory transactions and balances, purchase orders, receiving, bill of materials, product and vendor master data, and unit-of-measure logic
• Design and maintain robust validation routines that keep inventory data complete, accurate, and consistent across systems
• Investigate data anomalies, quantify business and financial impact, identify root causes, and drive issues through to resolution
• Build scalable exception management processes that reduce recurring problems and improve upstream data quality
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Accounting, and Data teams on workflows and system changes that affect inventory, costing, invoicing, and reporting
• Review requirements and designs for inventory-related changes to ensure financial implications are understood and addressed before launch
• Develop reconciliations, dashboards, and reporting that improve visibility into inventory accuracy, waste, costing and stock movements
• Help strengthen the company’s control environment, reporting reliability, and operational decision-making through better data ownership and governance