Finance, Inventory, and Vendor Manager

Small, fast-growing, profitable, "green" e-commerce company dedicated to serving the triple bottom line has an immediate need for an outstanding person to fill the Finance, Inventory and Vendor Manager position.

We offer a selection of smart, innovative, eco-friendly products that help people consume less, thus giving consumers pragmatic solutions and intelligent alternatives. We target the rapidly growing $209 billion LOHAS market.

Our first site ReusableBags.com has established a strong brand, a large passionate customer base, and is generating enormous buzz - recent highlights include Reader's Digest, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, CNN, ABC News, NPR's Marketplace and an endorsement in An Inconvenient Truth.

Position Overview: 

We are looking for an energetic self-starter to lead our
financial, inventory, and vendor management. The goal is to make all
planning processes effective, efficient, stable, & scalable, and to ensure accurate information is available at all times to make better management decisions.

This person will also be responsible for maintaining healthy
relationships with vendors and ensuring we receive the best possible
service. We will hire the person with the enthusiasm, proven skills and
motivation to grow and thrive in this position and with the company. We're a small company - somewhere larger this might be called a Vice President of Finance or a Finance Director.

Responsibilities:

The specifics of this position may change based on candidate's experience, strengths, etc., but will generally include:

Financial Management:

• Update monthly budget forecast and financial key performance
  indicators and present analysis, recommendations, and conclusions to management
• Look for ways to create efficiencies with data entry and interfacing with our back-end ecommerce system
• Identify and manage accounting and financial projects
• Continuously identify inefficiencies and ways to improve profit/reduce cost
• Create and apply fiscal controls and procedures

Inventory Planning / Vendor Management:

• Develop, implement, and optimize purchasing and inventory control procedures
• Keep product in stock while maintaining lowest possible inventory levels
• Ensure healthy flow of availability information to customer service
• Review market, price, turnaround time, and trends; develop forecasting models; direct purchasing accordingly
• Review weekly inventory trends adjust purchasing plans accordingly
• Own purchase orders & inventory through receiving & shipment to customer at 3rd party fulfillment center
• Manage suppliers & ensure best inventory allocation, turnaround, price, quality and terms
• Address inventory discrepancies b/w our system and fulfillment center
• Troubleshoot, communicate and resolve billing issues (quantity,
  pricing, terms, etc.)

Bookkeeping/Accounting:

• Responsible for managing an office / data entry assistant
• Accounts Payable (inventory purchases and bills)
• Accounts Receivable (credit card receipts against monthly item sales, manual deposits, paypal receipts)
• Submit and enter payroll and disburse employee benefits
• Reconcile checking account and merchant statements
• Develop process and systems to streamline bookkeeping and accounting tasks
• Help implement checks & balances such as fulfillment house invoices, payment processing and merchant processor fees, vendor credits, credit card charge backs, customer returns, etc.
• Create monthly and quarterly financial reports using QuickBooks and Excel and present and communicate results to management
• Work with customer service and purchasing to make sure all
  transactions are being properly recorded osCommerce and Quickbooks

We have an entrepreneurial work environment with a lot of autonomy. While a casual environment, work is fast paced and outstanding results are expected. This position is a 40-50+ hour work week. Approximate office hours: M-F, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM.

We are an ethics-driven organization and pride ourselves on having a
workplace with open communication, mutual respect and the golden rule. We are very selective - whether selecting products, vendors or hiring employees - in order to insure a good fit.

Be at the front of and help propel a paradigm shift, while gaining
tremendous and valuable experience.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Minimum of 5-7 years experience in this type of role
• Detail oriented, analytical thinker with excellent communication
  skills
• Excellent QuickBooks skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Strong desire to grow with the company
• Strong MS Word, Excel and Internet skills
• Show transparency in work, own position expectations, be a steward of all of the details and an advocate for excellence

The following skills / experience are not required but are preferred:

• Experience with a business that sells inventory
• Experience working with fulfillment / distribution partner
• Direct experience doing accounting/bookkeeping for an e-commerce company

Compensation: We offer a strong compensation package based on individual & company results. Levers include salary, individual & company bonuses plus stock options.

To Apply:

Think you're a great fit? Complete the General questionnaire on our
careers page and email it and your resume with "Finance / Inventory Manager opening" as the subject.

Please do not call at this time or email to any other email addresses, no exceptions.  All email will be answered.

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