Salary: 50K,

Industry: FMCG,

Our client is an e-commerce platform with a distribution solution to serve the market in deep rural areas. They are currently looking to hire an inventory controller who will be responsible for ensuring proper management of company’s inventory/ stock items starting from receiving to dispatch. Maintains and updates the stock records, responsible for conducting physical stock counts, perform regular stock reconciliations and overall monitoring of stock transactions

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining accurate stock listings
• Facilitate and participate in weekly, monthly and annual stock counts
• Perform monthly stock reconciliations of physical counts against system for all categories of inventory and highlight variances to the management
• Report shortfalls and surplus inventory, weekly and monthly for replenishment
• Assist in developing and implementing inventory policies and procedures;
• Ensure that goods received are matched with the actual invoices from the suppliers
• Reconcile stock deliveries with purchase orders and or agreed contract terms, and raise non-conformity reports where applicable
• Ensure goods dispatched to the customers are matched with the actual invoices issued to the customers
• Coordinate with warehouse team to implement and ensure a control system to reduce damage, breakage and inventory obsolescence
• Support accurate and timely financial reporting through ensuring all stock data is updated correctly
• Manage the monthly financial close process for all categories of stock;
• Ensure proper records and classification in terms of cost and quantity of all inventory items; 
• Ensure stock ledger entries are properly coded and classified
• Carry out spot checks on stock balances in the warehouse as against the system records to capture any anomalies

Qualifications and Requirements

• Degree/diploma in Supply chain 
• CPA is an added advantage
• At least 3 years’ experience in inventory management and reconciliations in FMCG company.
• Able to work under minimum supervision.
• Advance excel skills 

How to Apply

If you are up to the challenge, possess the necessary qualification and experience; please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Inventory Controller) to [email protected]   before 25th August  2022