Inventory Control Analyst

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and improve recurring inventory reports, dashboards, and scorecards covering inventory accuracy, cycle-count completion, variance trends, exception aging, transaction timing, movement-posting discipline, and location discrepancies.
• Analyze inventory data across sites and partner nodes to identify physical-to-system mismatches, root causes, recurring process gaps, and financial or operational exposure.
• Support cycle-count planning and execution, including schedules, count readiness, discrepancy tracking, recount coordination, variance validation, and closure reporting.
• Monitor cycle-count adherence and ensure high-priority materials are counted on schedule and variances are investigated and closed promptly.
• Partner with Inventory, Logistics, Warehouse, Manufacturing, Finance, Supply Chain, contract manufacturers, and 3PL teams to investigate discrepancies and drive corrective actions.
• Reconcile balances between ERP, WMS, partner reports, physical counts, transfer records, receiving records, and shipment evidence.
• Monitor high-value and high-risk inventory, including A/B class items, serialized material, RMA inventory, MRB, scrap, consigned inventory, in-transit material, and partner-held stock.
• Track aged transfer orders, pending receipts, unresolved count variances, unposted movements, duplicate receipts, inventory holds, RMA activity, scrap, unbuild activity, and aging inventory requiring disposition.
• Develop actionable reporting for leadership while protecting confidential inventory valuation data.
• Support inventory-control practices including ABC categorization, risk-based count prioritization, reason-code discipline, transaction cutoffs, blind counts, segregation of duties, audit-ready evidence retention, and exception ownership.
• Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end inventory readiness.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation for custody, receipts, counts, adjustments, approvals, root-cause decisions, and corrective actions.
• Create, govern, and improve inventory-control processes as business and site requirements evolve.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in inventory analysis, inventory control, manufacturing operations, logistics, supply chain operations, warehouse operations, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of cycle counting, variance analysis, inventory adjustments, reconciliation, receiving, transfers, scrap, MRB, RMA, and physical inventory controls.
• Experience in complex, fast-paced environments with multiple sites, warehouses, contract manufacturers, 3PLs, or external partners.
• Advanced Excel or spreadsheet skills, including lookups, pivot tables, formulas, data comparisons, exception reporting, and large-data-set analysis.
• Experience with ERP, WMS, or inventory reporting systems.
• Ability to translate data into practical insights, corrective actions, and recommendations.
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, ownership, and prioritization skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive outcomes without direct authority.
• Basic understanding of purchasing, receiving, manufacturing flow, inventory movement, logistics, and partner inventory management.

Nice to Have

• NetSuite experience.

Performance Expectations

• Achieve 99%+ on-time cycle-count completion and inventory-record accuracy.
• Ensure required coverage of high-priority and high-risk inventory.
• Reduce inventory loss, write-offs, avoidable adjustments, and recurring variance exposure.
• Reduce aged exceptions and support same-day or 24-hour transaction-posting discipline where applicable.
• Ensure material variances have documented root causes, owners, corrective actions, and closure dates.
• Deliver accurate, timely, actionable reporting with clear risks, trends, owners, next steps, and escalation paths.