# Inventory Control Analyst

**Company:** [Cerebras Systems](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cerebras-systems)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Data Analytics
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Excel, Pivot Tables, ERP, Wms, NetSuite, Inventory Reconciliation, Cycle Counting, Variance Analysis, Supply Chain, Abc Classification
**Posted:** 2026-08-15

> Analyzes inventory data across warehouses, manufacturing sites, and external partners to improve record accuracy, reconcile physical and system balances, and reduce operational and financial risk. The role requires 3+ years of inventory or supply-chain experience, advanced spreadsheet skills, and strong cross-functional follow-through.

## Job Description

## 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.

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