Accounting Manager - Inventory

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety‑first mindset.

Infrastructure Products Group (IPG) is a part of CRH, the leading building materials business in the world. Our products reliably convey, connect, and protect the world’s critical water, energy, communications, and transportation infrastructure within the residential, commercial, and public infrastructure segments. Within IPG, Local Solutions employs +2,600 people and operates 60+ manufacturing facilities with annual revenues of $1.5bn and ambitious growth and investment plans.

The Accounting Manager, Inventory role will report directly to the Director of Accounting and own the full end to end accounting and controls process related to inventory movements within the Local Solutions business unit. Leading a small team, this role will be critical in creating and maintaining best practices in inventory management and documentation.

• Remote position but based near one of our facilities in the United States.

• Own and coordinate the inventory cycle count cadences for raw materials, work in process, produced finished goods, and purchased finished goods for the Local Solutions business unit.
• Partner with plant operations to perform cycle counts, reconcile counts to the general ledger balance, and post differences to the ledger.
• Partner with the Finance Business Partners to understand count deltas prior to posting larger variances.
• Develop and implement best practices related to excess and obsolete inventory, including calculating and maintaining reserve rates, and partnering with operations teams to take action on slow or non‑moving stock items.
• Coordinate the annual full physical inventory processes (Q4) for all manufacturing sites in scope, partnering with finance and accounting leads in each area to ensure coverage and support is provided.
• Develop and implement best practices related to specially produced inventory.
• Develop and implement best practices related to tracking and reconciling intercompany inventory movements.
• Partner with the FP&A and Finance Business Partnering teams to provide reports and updates related to key performance indicators (KPIs) regarding inventory.
• Actively participate in initial inventory set up for M&A locations, including initial balance, obsolete considerations, etc.
• Oversee, review, and approve Balance Sheet reconciliations related to all inventory accounts for the Local Solutions business unit.
• Develop and implement best practices around Balance Sheet inventory account management.
• Partnering with local accounting teams to ensure proper adjusting journal entries and accruals are posted for inventory accounts, where applicable.
• Lead, coach, develop and mentor a small team (1‑3) of support staff.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field. Advanced Degrees, CMA, CPA a plus.
• Relevant work experience could be considered in lieu of a degree for the right candidate.
• 5+ years manufacturing finance and/or cost accounting experience required.
• Experience with complex ERP systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Sys Pro, Sage), SAP S/4 Hana preferred.
• Advanced MS Office.
• Travel – 10% or more may be required; 50%+ in Q4 to support full physical inventory requirements.
• Prior experience in team leadership preferred.
• Have a continuous improvement mindset, being able to identify process gaps and inefficiencies and take the lead to work with others to define and implement best practices within a network.
• Results‑oriented to ensure delivery of appropriate products and services in accurate, complete, and timely fashion.
• Ability to act independently as a subject matter expert with limited supervision.
• Ability to…