Senior Accountant, Inventory and Claude

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the accounting function for a rapidly growing premium food brand distributed through major retail, natural channels, and direct-to-consumer platforms.

• Transition day-to-day accounting operations in-house from an external firm.

• Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing processes.

• Manage accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), bank and credit card reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and intercompany transactions.

• Ensure accurate balance sheets and timely income statements, complete with actionable variance analysis.

• Reconcile consumer packaged goods (CPG) inventory across finished goods, raw materials, and packaging across various locations and channels.

• Track inventory from purchase through production, warehousing, and sales.

• Investigate and resolve discrepancies among the ledger, warehouse records, and third-party systems.

• Develop inventory reporting for stock levels, valuation, and cost of goods sold (COGS).

• Apply US GAAP revenue recognition principles for CPG and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), including gross-to-net calculations, trade spend, slotting, promotions, and returns.

• Maintain audit-ready and lender-ready financial records and assist with audits and tax preparation.

• Manage retail and distributor deductions and chargebacks, including shortages, market contribution bills (MCBs), spoilage, and freight issues.

• Validate, dispute, file, and track recovery of deductions.

• Supervise accounts receivable, collections, and disputed deductions with customers and distributors.

• Analyze margins, COGS, vendor expenses, and freight costs to identify potential savings.

• Manage cash reporting, accounts receivable aging, vendor terms, forecasting inputs, and line-of-credit inputs.

• Handle sales tax, 1099 forms, and internal controls.

• Create live dashboards and trackers for close status, accounts receivable aging, inventory, deductions, cash flow, and margin analysis.

• Oversee the cloud finance stack, including Xero and Airtable.

• Automate workflows across the ledger, banking, Airtable, deduction management, optical character recognition (OCR), and settlement tools.

• Utilize Claude daily for reconciliation, categorization, dispute packages, analysis, and documented processes, ensuring quality checks before posting.

• Collaborate across multiple time zones and maintain proactive communication.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related discipline.

• Minimum of 5 years of full-cycle accounting experience, including managing a monthly close and preparing financial statements.

• Experience with CPG inventory reconciliation is a strict requirement.

• Demonstrated capability to create dashboards that provide real-time visibility into financial and operational performance.

• Strong proficiency in Claude AI, with daily usage and the ability to verify output accuracy.

• Solid understanding of US GAAP, with experience supporting US-based companies.

• Comfortable managing and utilizing Xero and Airtable.

• Familiarity with trade spend, deductions, and disputes related to chargebacks from distributors or retailers.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

• CPA or local equivalent is a plus.

• Experience working with natural channel distributors like UNFI or KeHE is advantageous.

• Background in supporting a high-growth or venture-backed consumer brand is a plus.

• Previous experience transitioning accounting functions in-house from an external firm is a plus.

• Experience in developing automated accounting workflows is a plus.

• Availability during US business hours is required.

• An updated resume and a 1 to 2 minute Loom video are required for application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid in USD bi-monthly (on the 15th and 30th of each month).

• Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy.

• Observance of Holidays per company guidelines.

• 100% remote work environment.

• Opportunities for growth as the company scales, potentially leading to independent management of the entire system.