Wonder

Associate Director, Inventory Data

Wonder$174K — $183K *
Finance & Insurance
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, and product costing. 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
  • Design and maintain robust validation routines that keep inventory data 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 Success Looks Like : In this role, you will serve as the senior owner of inventory data as a source of financial truth. You will help the company move from reactive issue resolution and manual reconciliation toward a more proactive, governed, and scalable model. Success means:
  • Confidence in inventory balances, costing, and margin data
  • Faster detection and resolution of exceptions
  • Better alignment between operational systems and financial reporting needs
  • Stronger readiness for close, audit, and ongoing business scale
  • Clearer ownership and accountability for one of the most critical data domains in the company


What You Bring To The Table
  • 7+ years of experience across inventory finance, operations finance, inventory product ownership, or similar fields
  • Deep understanding of how inventory activity flows through operational systems into accounting and financial reporting
  • Strong accounting foundation in inventory and COGS, including standard costing, bills of materials, and inventory valuation
  • Strong experience with reconciliations, exception management, and data quality controls in complex or fast-changing environments, including building automated reconciliations, KPI frameworks, dashboards, and data quality monitoring
  • Hands-on SQL proficiency sufficient to investigate and reconcile large inventory datasets independently - multi-table joins across transactional and master data, common table expressions, window functions (running balances, deduplication, period-over-period movement), conditional aggregation, date and period logic, point-in-time cost and price lookups, and multi-level bill of materials
  • Experience with a cloud data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar) and authoring automated data quality tests, together with fluency in modern reporting and data tools and advanced Excel
  • Experience in fast-growing, operationally complex environments that involve manufacturing or multi-site production
  • Exposure to audit readiness, internal controls, or pre-IPO environments
  • Proven ability to work effectively across Finance, Operations, Product, and Data teams
  • Ability to translate complex system behavior into clear business and financial insight for senior stakeholders
  • A track record of bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous, high-impact problems
  • You are comfortable moving between executive-level conversations, detailed operational workflows, and technical data discussions. You can see both the operational reality and the financial consequence-and you know how to connect the two.


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

The benefits applicable to this role include a competitive compensation package with equity and a 401(k). We also offer a choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid short and long term disability coverage, paid time off including flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable law in addition to paid parental leave, discounted meals and exclusive perks across the Wonder family of brands.

Eligibility, effective dates, and available plan options vary by employment classification and location. To learn more about benefits for this role, visit our Careers page here.

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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