Manager, Inventory & Cost Accounting

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Key Responsibilities This position is responsible for leading the inventory and cost accounting function, ensuring accurate valuation of raw materials, work in process, and finished goods across recycling and energy operations. The role owns costing, inventory reserves, and variance analysis, and partners with Operations, and FP&A to explain cost drivers and margin performance. This position oversees month-end close activities for inventory and cost of goods sold, maintains the related internal controls, and supports external audit requests. Success in this role requires strong cost accounting knowledge, analytical judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. This role is primarily performed in an office environment. Own the month-end and quarter-end close for inventory and cost of goods sold, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and flux analysis Drive process and systems improvement — own inventory transaction discipline (receipts, consumption, scrap, adjustments), and report performance to business leadership. Oversee inventory valuation, and excess, obsolete, and lower-of-cost-or-market reserve analyses Oversee inventory accounting for battery energy storage systems (BESS), including component and module costing, and valuation of completed systems held for sale or deployment Partner with Operations, and FP&A to develop cost models and support product margin, and production analyses Maintain and strengthen internal controls over inventory and costing processes and support external audit requests Lead, coach, and develop a team of cost accountants and analysts, and drive process and ERP system improvements within the function #J-18808-Ljbffr NextGenEnergyJobs