Accounting Manager

Overview

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

#Long Live Dogs

Accounting Manager, Inventory and COGS — you will own the financial integrity of our inventory and cost of goods sold across the business. You’ll lead monthly close processes, manage and improve controls, and partner closely with Operations, FP&A, and third-party logistics providers to ensure the accurate and timely reporting of inventory and COGS in our ERP system. You’ll oversee key processes like purchase accruals, inventory movements, and costing methodologies, while identifying opportunities to improve and standardize inventory and COGS accounting across locations.

This role will play a key leadership role within Accounting and Finance more broadly, helping drive scalable solutions that support our rapid growth and set up the business for long-term success.

• One Team: We don’t think of ourselves by department; we align to goals and ensure the right people with context are involved to solve problems holistically.
• We are skeptical about everything: Ideas can come from anywhere; we stay customer-focused and willing to adapt when needed.
• Customer journey first: No interaction exists in a silo; we optimize for retention and success across channels.
• We Execute For Impact: We pursue high performance over benchmarks and adapt roles to maximize impact.
• We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption: We validate hypotheses quickly and accept imperfect progress while learning.

• Lead the monthly close process for inventory and COGS, including journal entries, reconciliations, and internal reporting
• Ensure accurate inventory costing and valuation, including landed cost, freight, duties, variances, and other COGS components
• Own the inventory subledger and ensure alignment with the general ledger
• Oversee purchase accrual processes and work with Procurement and AP to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Build, manage, mentor and lead the Inventory Accounting group, including thoughtful hiring, onboarding, coaching, and continuous feedback
• Monitor and analyze inventory movements, including in-transit, consignment, write-offs, and returns, and ensure appropriate accounting treatment
• Drive process improvements related to inventory and COGS accounting, including documentation of policies and procedures
• Partner with FP&A and Operations to provide timely and accurate analysis of COGS trends and inventory balances along with insights and reporting regarding inventory and margin drivers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners to implement inventory reporting tools and automation in our ERP
• Support the annual financial audit, including the preparation of spreadsheets or reports that support the financial statement numbers (e.g., inventory balances, COGS breakdown, inventory adjustments) and responses related to inventory and COGS
• Support physical inventory and cycle count processes and ensure results are reflected properly and timely in financial statements

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 2 years in inventory and/or COGS accounting and 1+ years of people management…