Associate Director, Inventory Data

Wonder•Parsippany, NJ

3d•$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, product costing, and related operational workflows. 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, controllership, operations finance, finance systems, supply chain analytics, inventory product ownership, or similar fields
Deep understanding of how inventory activity flows through operational systems into accounting and financial reporting
Strong experience with reconciliations, exception management, and data quality controls in complex or fast-changing environments
Proven ability to work effectively across Finance, Operations, Product, Engineering, and Data teams
Strong analytical and technical fluency, including advanced experience with SQL and modern reporting/data tools
Ability to translate complex system behavior into clear business and financial insight for senior stakeholders

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
Use your expertise to collaborate & direct the design and maintenance of robust validation routines to ensure inventory data is 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