Wonder

Associate Director, Inventory Data

Wonder$174K — $183K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in inventory finance, controllership, operations finance, finance systems, supply chain analytics, or similar fields.
  • Deep understanding of the flow of inventory activity into accounting and financial reporting.
  • Strong experience in reconciliations, exception management, and data quality controls in dynamic environments.
  • Proven ability to collaborate across Finance, Operations, Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
  • Strong analytical and technical fluency, including advanced SQL and modern reporting tools.
  • Ability to communicate complex system behavior clearly for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Represent Finance Data & Systems in decisions impacting financial integrity of inventory-related datasets.
  • Collaborate to design and maintain validation routines for accurate inventory data.
  • Investigate data anomalies and drive issues to resolution.
  • Build processes to reduce recurring problems and improve data quality.
  • Partner with various teams on workflows that affect inventory and financial reporting.
  • Review requirements for inventory changes for financial implications.
  • Develop reporting tools for improved visibility into inventory metrics.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary package including equity and 401K.
  • Multiple medical, dental, and vision plans available to meet employee needs.
  • Additional unspecified benefits and perks.
Full Job Description
About The Opportunity
We are hiring a Associate Director, Inventory Data to lead the integrity, governance, and financial correctness of the data that underpins inventory, cost of goods sold, product costing, and related operational workflows. This is a senior cross-functional role for someone who can operate at the intersection of finance, operations, systems, product, and analytics to help ensure that inventory-related data is accurate, auditable, explainable, and trusted across the business. The right candidate brings a combination of inventory process fluency, financial rigor, systems thinking, and hands-on analytical capability. You know how operational events become financial outcomes, and you know how to design the controls, validations, and governance needed to make that process reliable at scale.

The Impact You'll Make
  • Represent Finance Data & Systems in evaluating and shaping decisions that impact the financial integrity of core inventory-related datasets, including inventory transactions and balances, purchase orders, receiving, bill of materials, product and vendor master data, and unit-of-measure logic
  • Use your expertise to collaborate & direct the design and maintenance of robust validation routines to ensure inventory data is complete, accurate, and consistent across systems
  • Investigate data anomalies, quantify business and financial impact, identify root causes, and drive issues through to resolution
  • Build scalable exception management processes that reduce recurring problems and improve upstream data quality
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Accounting, and Data teams on workflows and system changes that affect inventory, costing, invoicing, and reporting
  • Review requirements and designs for inventory-related changes to ensure financial implications are understood and addressed before launch
  • Develop reconciliations, dashboards, and reporting that improve visibility into inventory accuracy, waste, costing and stock movements
  • Help strengthen the company's control environment, reporting reliability, and operational decision- making through better data ownership and governance


What You Bring To The Table
  • 7+ years of experience across inventory finance, controllership, operations finance, finance systems, supply chain analytics, inventory product ownership, or similar fields
  • Deep understanding of how inventory activity flows through operational systems into accounting and financial reporting
  • Strong experience with reconciliations, exception management, and data quality controls in complex or fast-changing environments
  • Proven ability to work effectively across Finance, Operations, Product, Engineering, and Data teams
  • Strong analytical and technical fluency, including advanced experience with SQL and modern reporting/data tools
  • Ability to translate complex system behavior into clear business and financial insight for senior stakeholders


New Jersey / New York Base Salary: $174,000 - $183,500.

Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.

About Wonder

World of Wonder Productions is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Portsmouth-born Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in documentary television and film productions, with credits including the Million Dollar Listing docuseries, RuPaul's Drag Race, and the documentary films Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Together, Bailey and Barbato have produced programming through World of Wonder for HBO, Bravo, HGTV, Showtime, the BBC, Netflix, and VH1. World of Wonder is perhaps best known for its contributions towards LGBTQ programming, for which they won an Outfest Annual Achievement Award in 2011. Their most well known LGBTQ production is RuPaul's Drag Race, having managed the career of drag queen and titular host RuPaul for many years before this, eventually producing the franchise alongside the majority of its live shows, podcasts, television specials, and conventions.
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