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Water Access Rwanda
Main purpose of the position
The Inventory Controller manages the inventory of Water Access Rwanda, ensuring accurate records of inventory movements, maintaining minimum inventory levels, generating monthly reports, and fully reconciling inventory balances against independent counts
Key Result Areas
1. Inventory Record Keeping:
• Maintains accurate records of all inventory movements within appropriate divisions.
• Ensures fully reconciled reports between physical inventory counts and system counts.
2. Reporting:
• Provides weekly and monthly reports on stock inventory position, value, and movement.
• Generates inventory forecasts to ensure stock availability.
3. Reconciliation:
• Reconciles inventory balances against independent counts.
• Monitors inventory cost accounts for compliance with budget and business model, alerting concerned managers to discrepancies.
Responsibilities
o Keep detailed records of all entries and exits from company inventory locations, including monitoring materials at various project sites.
o Ensure all inventory movements are accurately documented within the appropriate divisions.
o Maintain up-to-date and accurate inventory records in the system.
o Prepare and provide weekly and monthly reports on stock inventory position, value, and movement.
o Generate inventory forecasts to ensure stock availability and prevent stockouts.
o Communicate inventory status and forecasts to relevant stakeholders.
o Conduct regular physical inventory counts and reconcile them with system records.
o Monitor inventory cost accounts for compliance with budget and business model.
o Alert concerned managers to any discrepancies in inventory cost accounts.
o Collaborate with the operations team to reconcile inventory cost accounts and support measures to control costs.
o Track and enforce all supplier warranties.
o Keeps track of expiration dates where applicable and avoids losses for the company from expired stock.
o Any other task assigned.
Qualifications
• Education:
o High School Diploma with a minimum of 3 years of experience as an Inventory Controller.
o Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
• Experience:
o At least 2 years of professional experience in retail, warehousing, logistics, or a similar field.
Hard skills
• Previous regular use of inventory management software
• Exceptional organizational collaboration and negotiation skills
• Good knowledge of plumbing fixtures
• Accuracy of entry and exit records, with reconciled reports.
• Ability to handle increased number of inventories with different combinations.
Soft skills
• Great analytical and logistical thinking abilities
• Trustworthiness
• Strong communication skills, conversant in English and Kinyarwanda. French a bonus
• Excellent time management skills
• Accountability
