Job Description
Sterling Engineering is partnering with a leading energy and manufacturing company to hire an Inventory Accounting Analyst in Downers Grove, IL. This role focuses on reconciling production and inventory activity, investigating discrepancies, and ensuring inventory movements are accurately reflected in financial reporting.
Location: Downers Grove, IL 60515 (100% onsite)
Hire Type: Contract to Hire
Compensation: $40-$50/hr
Benefits: As a contract employee of Sterling, you are eligible to receive a Full Employee Benefits Package that includes paid time off, paid holidays, 3 medical plans to choose from, dental & vision plans, 401(k), and an Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) plan.
Job Duties:
- Reconcile daily production and inventory activity to ensure accurate accounting and reporting.
- Review inventory movements and identify discrepancies between raw materials, production output, and reported inventory.
- Investigate quantity and yield variances to determine root causes and financial impact.
- Analyze how inventory discrepancies affect product costs, gross margins, and profitability.
- Validate refinery production, yield, and inventory data within SAP and RightAngle.
- Research and resolve inventory, production, and accounting discrepancies.
- Perform month-end inventory reconciliations and support accounting close activities.
- Prepare inventory variance reports and communicate findings to Accounting, Finance, and Operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting required.
- 2–5+ years of accounting experience, preferably involving inventory, manufacturing, cost accounting, or operational accounting.
- Experience reconciling inventory, production, or other high-volume transactional data.
- Strong understanding of inventory accounting principles and financial reconciliations.
- Ability to investigate discrepancies and determine their impact on costs and profitability.
- Experience with SAP required.
- Strong Microsoft Excel and data analysis skills.
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Downers Grove, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $40–$50 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.