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## About the role
This role will play a key part in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of inventory, in-transit inventory, cogs accounts and reconciliations. You will work cross-functionally with Supply Chain and Accounting, owning the reconciliation process end-to-end as we continue to scale.
This is a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves role. You should genuinely enjoy working with inventory data, reconciling physical vs. system quantities, analyzing variances, and making sure numbers truly reflect what's happening operationally.
## Responsibilities
- Own the monthly reconciliation of inventory related accounts, including physical counts vs. system records and cutoff procedures.
- Prepare and post inventory-related journal entries, accruals, adjustments, and reclasses with proper supporting documentation.
- Partner closely with Supply Chain to analyze inventory movements, waste, shrinkage, yield, and cost variances.
- Ensure accurate COGS recognition related to food and packaging.
- Participate actively in the monthly close process, ensuring inventory balances are complete, accurate, and completed on time.
- Identify inventory and costing issues, investigate root causes, and propose practical solutions.
- Prepare and maintain inventory rollforwards and supporting schedules.
- Support internal controls related to inventory processes.
- Assist with external audits, especially inventory and cost-related requests.
- Support ERP processes and improvements (including implementations, automation and/or optimizations).
- Perform P&L and Balance Sheet analysis related to inventory, costs, and margins.
- Ensure inventory accounting complies with US GAAP standards.
## Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in Accounting, Cost Accounting, or Inventory Accounting.
- Degree in Accounting or related field.
- Non-negotiable: Strong, hands-on experience with inventory accounting and reconciliations.
- US GAAP knowledge required.
- Solid understanding of costing methodologies and inventory flows.
- Basic understanding of accounting processes and month-end close.
- Good communication skills
- Detail-oriented, organized, and able to follow established processes.
- Ability to manage routine tasks in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
- Team player with a collaborative mindset.
- Experience with NetSuite is a plus.
- Experience managing accounting and reporting for multi-currency entities.
## What we offer
- 🩺 Health Insurance coverage (Canada Life)
- ⛱ Flexible Paid Time Off
- 🗓️ 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
- 🐣 Paid Family leave.
- 🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
- 🥘 A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly.
- 🧘🏽♀️ Wellness perks: fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
- 👩🏾🏫 Personalized Spanish coach
- 🤖 AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster.
- 🚀 Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!
## About the company
We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we're looking for, we invite you to explore: CookUnity's Leadership Principles – The values and behaviors that guide how we operate, collaborate, and scale.
We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and product vision. If this excites you, we'd love to connect!
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