Inventory
Accountant
Reporting
to:Finance Manager
Job
Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage
an high performing inventory management team
- Establishing
and implementing inventory management policies and procedures.
- Lead
the Perform daily weekly and monthly physical stock checks in all the
Branches and highlight variances to the management.
- Perform
weekly and monthly physical assets and tools counts in the company and
high light variances to the management.
- Prepare
and distribute daily, weekly, monthly and ad-hoc inventory levels and
consumption reports to all the relevant departments.
- Maintaining
acceptable and accurate inventory levels at warehouse/inventory locations
based on Re-order levels
- Identify
shortfalls and surplus inventory, daily, weekly and monthly for
replenishment.
- Coordinate
with accounts department and marketing department to ensure that all
product costs are properly taken in the cost of sales and inventory costs.
- Responsible
for communicating with all department managers and purchasing on inventory
levels and locations.
- Coordinate
with warehouse team to implement and ensure control system to reduce
damage, breakage and inventory obsolescence.
- Reviewing
obsolete/redundant inventory to facilitate their removal from the
warehouse.
- Assist
Financial Manager in ad-hoc relevant projects.
- Assist
other functional units within the Finance team in carrying out jobs as and
when required by the management.
- Ensure
accurate posting of all inventory transactions to the ERP system
Desired
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelors
Degree in Finance/Accounting and/or suitable background experience in
inventory management in retail
- CPA
‘K’ holder.
- Operationally
oriented and comfortable working in a retail company environment and
experience with branch operations would be ideal.
- Have
a detailed understanding of current inventory control systems with a
working knowledge of retail company processes.
- 4
years’ experience in a busy environment in which 2 years in the
relevant/same field
- Experience
in using SAGE as an accounting system
- Excellent
interpersonal and communication skills.
How to
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