Accounting Manager - Inventory

Accounting Manager - Inventory

Atlanta, GA, US, 30328

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We're more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We're a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we're leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

The Accounting Manager, Inventory role will report directly to the Director of Accounting and own the full end to end accounting and controls process related to inventory movements within the Local Solutions business unit. Leading a small team, this role will be critical in creating and maintaining best practices in inventory management and documentation.

Job Location

This position is remote but based near one of our facilities in the United States.

Job Responsibilities

• Own and coordinate the inventory cycle count cadences for raw materials, work in process, produced finished goods, and purchased finished goods for the Local Solutions business unit.
• Partner with plant operations to perform cycle counts, reconcile counts to the general ledger balance, and post differences to the ledger. Partner with the Finance Business Partners to understand count deltas prior to posting larger variances.
• Develop and implement best practices related to excess and obsolete inventory, including calculating and maintain reserve rates, and partnering with operations teams to take action on slow or non-moving stock items.
• Coordinate the annual full physical inventory processes (Q4) for all manufacturing sites in scope, partnering with finance and accounting leads in each area to ensure coverage and support is provided.
• Develop and implement best practices related to specially produced inventor.
• Develop and implement best practices related to tracking and reconciling intercompany inventory movements.
• Partner with the FP&A and Finance Business Partnering teams to provide reports and updates related to key performance indicators (KPIs) regarding inventory.
• Actively participate in initial inventory set up for M&A locations, including initial balance, obsolete considerations, etc.
• Oversee, review, and approve Balance Sheet reconciliations related to all inventory accounts for the Local Solutions business unit.
• Develop and implement best practices around Balance Sheet inventory account management.
• Partnering with local accounting teams to ensure proper adjusting journal entries and accruals are posted for inventory accounts, where applicable.
• Lead, coach, develop and mentor a small team (1-3) of support staff.

Job Requirements

What CRH Offers You

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

If you're up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH Company, is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

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