Inventory Staff Accountant II (Oklahoma City, OK, US, 73120)

Welcome to Love's! Our Store Payables Accounting team is looking for a detail-oriented and analytical Inventory Staff Accountant II. This role is essential for maintaining accurate and reliable inventory financial records. The successful candidate will be responsible for investigating inventory discrepancies, monitoring inventory variances, and calculating and maintaining weighted average costs for item-level categories across all stores.

Job Functions:

• Enter receiver corrections and reset WAC (Weighted Average Cost) to maintain accurate inventory tracking and valuation.
• Review daily WAC change reports in Power BI and compare them with PDI Daily Comparison Reports to ensure alignment of store quantity, WAC, and extended costs are matching.
• Ensure PDI data aligns consistently with DAX for accurate inventory reporting.
• Monitor the Receiver Correction email account, collaborating with operational field auditors and stores to address receiving errors promptly.
• Reconcile receipts, returns, transfers, adjustments, and waste to confirm accurate reflection in PDI from Storepoint, DAX, and PARDC systems.
• Address all Import Errors into PDI daily to maintain data integrity.
• Resolve DRSA exceptions daily by working closely with field auditors, store teams, and pricebook teams, minimizing recurring errors.
• Ensure we complete a daily AP Export into PDI.
• Help with month end close and monthly workpaper review to ensure we pay vendors in a timely manner, and store margins are being accurately calculated.
• Clear the 230060 AP Clearing Balance sheet account on a monthly basis.
• Monitor assigned vendors in the weekly recon clearing account, taking appropriate action for any discrepancies between amounts entered by the store and billed/credited by the vendor.
• Utilizing the Sharepoint site, communicate with the operations field auditors regarding skipped invoices/credits, and other invoice issues needing resolution.
• Monitor assigned vendor statements taking appropriate action for any outstanding invoices and credits appearing on the statements.
• Responding to emails/calls from vendors, field auditors and stores.
• Run and publish assigned reports for use by the operation field auditors.

Experience and Qualifications:

• HS Diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting required.
• 2 years of accounts payable experience required.

      SKILLS

• Hard skills: Proficient in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel; knowledge of accounts payable processes.
• Soft skills: Ability to learn new software applications and computer programs; excellent verbal and written communication skills; analytical skills; ability to maintain and develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders; strong time management and organization skills; sense of urgency; keen attention to detail.

Typical Physical Demands:

• Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping.
• Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.
• Requires normal range of hearing and vision. graduate, undergraduate degree, recent college grad, recent college graduate