What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Inventory Analyst position at MARS?
Key role of the SC Inventory Analyst is to be a partner for the business to enable growth and support day to day operations. The Analyst will manage producing daily/weekly/periodic & quarterly reporting and ensure timely submission of data in compliance with corporate deadlines. The SC Inventory Analyst will assist in improving processes, procedures and internal controls and complete special projects on an as needed basis. At the core of the role will be a responsibility to influence leaders and transactional executors within the planning order-to-cash process to ensure daily reconciliation of inventory throughout the various systems and transactions balances each day. Abnormalities that cannot resolved locally shall be escalated and worked through to resolution with different strategies and proposals from the Analyst.
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, or supply chain
- 2 years of experience in areas of accounting or finance related fields
- Understanding of basic financial processes and controls
- Intermediate to advanced working knowledge of MS Excel
- Power BI or Tableau experience is a plus for dashboard creation and maintenance to analyze trends and patterns.
- Process improvement experience would be an advantage
- Experience working with and reconciling multiple systems is a plus
- Ability to influence without authority to drive results
What will be your key responsibilities?
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Accountability for the daily value of inventory through, but not limited to, the following:
- Activity Reconciliation of Transfers (shipment and receipt) between multiple factory and warehouse locations
- Review findings from Inventory dashboards; action resolve or escalate
- Confirming inventory values are in sync between all systems
- Call out if processes, tools or systems are not used correctly & work to resolve locally with peers at lowest level where possible
- Verify request for adjustments related to the value of inventory
- Reconciliation of inventory transaction to OMS (Order Management System) in/out (adjustment, cancelled, shipped)
- Balance sheet reconciliation WMS to ERP Subledger to ERP General Ledger
- Document processes and provide SOPs for Financial approval for current & future systems
- Involved in Development scoping & UAT testing of new systems impacting inventory
- Support the physical / cycle count process and drive toward improvements
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
