Controller, Inventory

Burkland Associates

Job Overview

Location

United States - Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end inventory accounting and control across a portfolio of venture-backed startups, including valuation, reconciliation, cycle counts, and physical audits to ensure alignment between system records and physical inventory.
• Apply and maintain appropriate costing methodologies (FIFO, LIFO, weighted average) tailored to each client’s industry and operational model, ensuring accurate COGS and inventory valuation under GAAP.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve inventory variances rapidly to minimize shrinkage, obsolescence, and excess carrying costs, driving improved working capital efficiency.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements compliant with GAAP, with specialized focus on inventory reporting, COGS analysis, and gross margin insights customized to each client’s business model.
• Build and maintain management reporting packages that deliver actionable financial insights—focusing on decision-driving metrics, not just compliance.
• Analyze key supply chain KPIs including inventory turnover, days-on-hand, and reorder points to optimize stock levels, prevent stockouts, and reduce overstocking.
• Partner with operations and fulfillment teams to align financial controls with daily workflows, ensuring seamless integration between inventory management and accounting systems.
• Lead ERP and inventory software implementations, migrations, and optimizations (e.g., NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Cin7, Fishbowl), ensuring data integrity and audit-ready records at all times.
• Train client staff on accounting procedures, system best practices, and internal controls to ensure consistent and compliant financial operations across client organizations.
• Serve as a strategic financial advisor to startup founders and leadership teams on cash flow planning, purchasing strategy, inventory investment, and growth-related financial decisions.
• Provide budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling with specific emphasis on inventory-related costs, pricing decisions, and COGS sensitivity.
• Proactively flag financial risks and opportunities in inventory and operational performance, transitioning from a reporting role to a trusted partner in strategic planning.
• Support due diligence, ASC 606 compliance, equity accounting, audit preparation, and legal document reviews (contracts, leases, insurance).
• Manage all core accounting operations: invoicing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, project accounting, and month-end/year-end close processes.
• Oversee weekly cash flow forecasting, monthly financial close, and annual budgeting cycles while monitoring client financial performance against targets.
• Evaluate variances between actual results and budgets, delivering clear business insights to guide management decisions.
• Manage relationships with banks, tax accountants, corporate insurance providers, and external auditors.
• Optimize financial systems (QuickBooks Online, Bill.com, Expensify) and recommend or implement new tools to enhance efficiency, controls, and scalability.
• Ensure all accounting policies and processes are thoroughly documented and consistently applied across client engagements.
• Oversee administrative and operational functions including payroll, HR support, IT coordination, and legal compliance as needed.
• Provide analysis to determine appropriate annual bill rate changes and review PCEs and client contracts to help structure payment schedules.
• Maintain confidentiality, integrity, and professionalism in all client interactions, especially when handling sensitive financial and legal data.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 10+ years of small company finance and accounting experience
• CPA or CMA strongly preferred
• Demonstrated expertise in inventory accounting (FIFO, LIFO, landed costs, shrinkage, valuation adjustments)
• Hands-on experience with ERPs (NetSuite, QuickBooks, Cin7, Fishbowl, or similar)
• Advanced Excel skills with proficiency in data modeling, pivot tables, and reconciliation workflows

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work schedule to promote work-life balance
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance for employee and dependents
• Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible PTO policy
• 401(k) with company match
• Generous home office expense reimbursement
• Remote-first workplace with no commute
• Collaborative culture driven by core values and purpose

Skills & Technologies

Remote

$90k-120k

Degree Required

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About Burkland Associates

Burkland Associates provides fractional CFO, accounting, bookkeeping, tax, and people operations services to venture-backed startups across the United States. Founded by ex-CFOs and operators, the firm delivers strategic finance leadership and back-office support on an outsourced basis, helping seed through Series C companies scale without building full internal teams. Services include financial modeling, fundraising guidance, monthly close, AR/AP, payroll, HR compliance, and tax preparation, delivered by a distributed team of domain experts. Burkland serves SaaS, consumer, marketplace, e-commerce, and biotech clients and is headquartered in San Francisco with remote professionals nationwide.

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