Inventory Accounting & Reporting Analyst

Requisition Number: Req-260285

Position Title:

External Description: Title: Inventory Accounting & Reporting Analyst

               

Location: Kennewick, WA

               

Job Requisition ID: Req-260285

               

Time Type: Full time

               

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

               

Collaborate with cross-functional business partners to maintain accurate inventory of finished goods across the Lamb Weston North American network. This analyst will be responsible for the day-to-day resolution of internal and external warehouse and inventory reporting and reconciliation issues, while supporting customer orders and shipments.

Job Description

• Prepares Non-PO vouchers with account numbers and validate charges/rates for warehouse invoices. Will do Goods Receipts for service-related PO’s. Assist with monthly accrual.
• Travel to plant/warehouse locations for annual physical inventories and cycle counts to perform an audit. Provide explanation/assistance to External/Internal Audit where applicable.
• Enter daily goods receipts, goods issues, and adjustments using various warehouse documents. Review Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transaction uploads to assist with IDOC errors. Follow up on inventory variances and errors to resolve in a timely manner.
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly record comparisons for 40+ warehouses across North America to ensure inventory accuracy. Communicate open issues clearly and consistently to plant/warehouse locations for resolution. Create entries to adjust inventory balances.
• Enter subcontracting transactions as well as receive purchase orders for co-pack locations. Create monthly warehouse billing for damage and lost product. Send dump requests to warehouses to remove outdated/damaged inventory.
• Scan, upload, and index inventory accounting documents into BMI software. Cross train with department members and be able to provide back up support.
• Enter customer orders and return orders for inventory shipment discrepancies. Send out shipment verifications to plants for transfer load discrepancies and enter Standard Transfer Order (STO) to adjust. Review In-Transit and Open Orders report to research late goods issue/receipts.
• Reconciliation of warehouse physical inventories and cycle counts to SAP. Prepares and sends quarterly cycle count forms to participating warehouses.
• Coordinates with Customer Operations to create donation orders for charitable organizations and milk sales.
• Assist with the implementation of process improvement initiatives or other tasks as assigned.
• Drive business actions with ad hoc inventory level, inventory disposal, and inventory level forecasting

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• College degree or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years related experience.
• Ability to self-direct work to meet department needs.
• Ability to collaborate and independently complete complex resolutions to inventory problems.
• Ability to learn software solutions and become system and subject matter expert.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

               

Anticipated Close Date

The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs.

               

Anticipated Close Date: 05/15/2026

               

Pay Transparency

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is listed below.

               

Pay Rate or Range: $63,160.00 - $94,750.00

               

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law

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Company Profile:

Lamb Weston is a leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world.

For more than 60 years, Lamb Weston has led the industry in innovation, introducing inventive products that simplify back-of-house management for our customer and make things more delicious for their customers.

It’s all about seeing the possibilities in potatoes and never, ever settling.

Learn more about us at lambweston.com.

Location_formattedLocationLong: Washington, US