Delivery Operations Specialist

Skill required: Record To Report - Record To Report (R2R) Designation: Delivery Operations Specialist Qualifications: Chartered Accountant Years of Experience: 7 to 11 years About Accenture Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com What would you do? • We are seeking an experienced Inventory & Cost Accounting professional to own inventory valuation, cost accounting, inventory reconciliations, manufacturing accounting, inventory reporting, and month-end close activities for a Consumer Goods organization. • The role will partner closely with Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing Operations, Contract Manufacturers, and Commercial Finance to ensure inventory accuracy, • Technical Skills • • NetSuite ERP (preferred) • • SAP, Oracle, JDE, Dynamics, or similar ERP systems • • Advanced Excel • • Power BI or reporting tools • • Inventory costing methodologies: • o Standard Costing • o PPV Analysis • o Inventory Revaluation • o Manufacturing Variance Analysis • o Inventory Reserve Accounting • Strong Knowledge of • • Inventory Accounting • • Cost Accounting • • Inventory Valuation What are we looking for? • Primary skill - Record To Report (R2R) - P4 Education • • Chartered Accountant (CA), CMA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA or MBA Finance. • • Graduate Post Graduate in Commerce, Accounting, Finance, or related discipline • • 5+ years of Inventory Accounting, Cost Accounting, Manufacturing Finance, or Supply Chain Finance experience. • • Experience in Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Retail, or D2C organizations. • • Experience working with Contract Manufacturing environments preferred. • • Strong month-end close and balance sheet reconciliation experience. • • Experience supporting audits and inventory controls. Roles and Responsibilities: • Inventory Accounting & Reconciliations • • Perform monthly inventory reconciliations across warehouses, contract manufacturers, and third-party logistics partners. • • Reconcile Amazon (AMZ) inventory balances against NetSuite inventory records and ensure inventory ownership is accurately reflected in the books. • • Record inventory adjustment journal entries where discrepancies are identified. • • Review inventory-in-transit balances and ensure accurate accounting treatment. • • Upload and maintain inventory-by-location reporting for contract manufacturing and inventory operations teams. • • Investigate inventory variances and partner with Supply Chain to resolve root causes • . Cost Accounting & Inventory Valuation • • Monitor and validate inventory standard costs and product cost structures. • • Execute annual standard cost roll processes and inventory cost revaluation activities. • • Analyze Inventory Cost Revaluation (ICR) impacts and ensure proper accounting treatment. • • Review Zero-Cost Inventory reports and coordinate corrective actions with Supply Chain and Procurement teams. • • Conduct Purchase Price Variance (PPV) analysis and partner with Supply Chain to understand and resolve deviations. • • Ensure inventory valuation complies with company policy and accounting standards. • . Manufacturing & Contract Manufacturer Accounting • • Review completed manufacturing work orders and reconcile finished goods receipts with contract manufacturer production reports. • • Validate production quantities, pricing, yields, and inventory receipts. • • Investigate manufacturing variances and support inventory adjustments where required. • • Review aging manufacturing orders and coordinate closure or correction with Supply Chain teams. • • Support inventory controls for outsourced manufacturing operations • . Inventory Reserves & Disposals • • Review inventory disposal requests submitted by Supply Chain. Chartered Accountant About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. 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