Manager, Financial Controller; Inventory

Hybrid, New York City, NY

Amer Sports is a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, powered by a community of people who share a passion for authenticity, impact, and excellence. We bring together leading brands, talented teams, and a culture built on collaboration. If you’re looking for an environment where you can make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.

Amer Sports is seeking a Manager, Financial Controller to define the governance of inventory accounting standards, costing policy, and reserve methodology across the global portfolio. This is a finance controlling role with broad cross-brand scope, sitting within the FP&A function and reporting to the Director of Inventory and a dotted line into the Chief Accounting Officer.

The primary focus of this role is ensuring that inventory is valued consistently and accurately across all brands and markets, from the build of standard costs through PPV, scrapping, donations, reserve rates, and physical inventory programs. The right candidate is a subject matter expert in inventory accounting who can translate policy into practice, build scalable processes, and partner with Brand Controllers to embed rigorous standards without being prescriptive.

This is a hands‑on role that requires both technical depth and the ability to influence cross‑functionally across a complex, multi‑brand global organization. The candidate must be a self‑starter who can operate with limited oversight, build structure from ambiguity, and drive consistency at scale.

• Define global governance of standard cost setting and policy compliance for raw materials, WIP, and finished goods, partnering with Brand Controllers to ensure consistent application across manufacturing, DC, and retail inventory.
• Provide guidance to brands on standard cost methodology, including input cost assumptions, overhead absorption, and inter‑company transfer pricing.
• Lead the annual standard cost roll process and monitor mid‑year adjustments for compliance.

• Build and maintain a global framework for PPV calculation, reporting, and accountability, partnering with Brand Controllers and supply chain finance to ensure accurate capture and classification at the brand and entity level.
• Provide guidance on PPV accounting treatment, including recognition timing, disaggregation by category, and reconciliation to inventory balances.
• Identify patterns and root causes in PPV trends across brands and elevate systemic issues.

• Design and maintain the global reserve rate methodology by brand and product category, grounded in a rolling 12‑month lookback of sales below cost, write‑offs, and disposals, and manage the obsolescence, excess, and slow‑moving reserve calculations across brands and geographies.
• Partner with Brand Controllers to review reserve adequacy, including monitoring aged inventory balances, challenge positions that do not reflect underlying risk, and align scrapping and disposal accounting treatment across brands.
• Prepare judgmental reserves analysis each period to support technical accounting review and external audit.

• Define global governance for inventory accounting policy across all brands, entities, and inventory types, including GiT, raw material, WIP, finished goods in DC and retail, and fast‑close accruals, and review key reserve positions each period.
• Establish and monitor internal controls over inventory accounting, partnering with Brand Controllers and GBS to remediate deficiencies, and serve as finance lead for inventory topics in internal and external audits.
• Drive process…