# Sr. Manager, Inventory Accounting Modernization

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Brooklyn Park, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $95,000.00 - $171,000.00
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Sr. Manager, Inventory Accounting Modernization to join our team at Target. As a collaborative leader, you will play a critical role in driving the modernization of our inventory accounting processes.

The pay range for this position is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00 per year. In addition to your pay, Target offers comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), employee discount, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Serve as an Accounting leader within the Inventory Modernization program, ensuring accounting, control, data, and operational requirements are reflected in future-state design decisions.

- Translate complex accounting and business needs into clear requirements, decisions, milestones, and outcomes in partnership with Finance, Technology, and business teams.

- Anticipate accounting, systems, data, and operational risks and ensure appropriate controls are embedded in future-state processes.

- Lead Inventory Accounting's approach to testing, parallel analysis, reconciliation, issue resolution, and readiness assessment.

- Shape the transition and cutover strategy, ensuring Accounting teams are prepared to operate successfully in the new environment.

- Build alignment across cross-functional teams, navigate competing priorities, and lead strategic conversations around roles, responsibilities, and key design decisions.

- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, enable automation, strengthen controllership, and increase the team's capacity for high-value analysis, insights, and financial reporting.

- Influence upstream business processes and operational decisions by identifying accounting risk, improving transparency, and ensuring strong financial governance.

- Collaborate across Controllership and enterprise Finance teams to support evolving business models, ensure accounting compliance, and improve financial predictability.

**Requirements:**

- B.A./B.S. degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Accounting or Finance.

- Minimum of 6–8 years of accounting, finance, or relevant business experience.

- CPA and/or public accounting experience preferred.

- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and inventory accounting, with an understanding of accounting controls, SOX compliance, controllership responsibilities, data, and financial systems.

- Experience leading or playing a significant role in large-scale finance, accounting, or technology transformations.

- Ability to connect technology decisions to accounting, finance, operational, and broader business outcomes.

- Strong strategic thinking and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk and navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility across multiple levels and functions.

- Proven ability to work effectively in a highly collaborative, matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- Inventory Management
- GAAP
- SOX Compliance
- Financial Systems
- Leadership
- Strategic Thinking
- Problem-Solving
- Communication

### Nice to have
- CPA
- Public Accounting Experience
- Large-Scale Transformations

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