Associate Director, Inventory Data

Wonder•Parsippany, NJ

4d•$174,000 - $183,500•Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring a 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. The right candidate brings a combination of inventory process fluency, financial rigor, systems thinking, and hands-on analytical capability. You know how operational events become financial outcomes, and you know how to design the controls, validations, and governance needed to make that process reliable at scale.

Requirements

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
A track record of bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous, high-impact problems
You are comfortable moving between executive-level conversations, detailed operational workflows, and technical data discussions. You can see both the operational reality and the financial consequence—and you know how to connect the two.

Nice To Haves

Strong accounting foundation within the domain
Experience in fast-growing, operationally complex environments such as food, retail, consumer, manufacturing, logistics, or marketplace businesses
Experience inventory, procurement, finance systems
Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in SQL, Big Query, advanced Excel
Experience building automated reconciliations, KPI frameworks, dashboards, and data quality monitoring
Exposure to audit readiness, internal controls, or pre-IPO environments is a plus

Responsibilities

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