SR Inventory Accounting Analyst - This position is HYBRID working 2 Days a week in the Texas Support Center currently located in Denton Tx, relocating to Plano Texas in late Fall 2025. 

About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

At SBH, our purpose is to inspire a more colorful, confident, and welcoming world. We are the leader in professional hair color, selling and distributing professional beauty supplies across 11 countries through our Sally Beauty and Beauty Systems Group businesses. Sally Beauty offers products for hair color, hair care, nails, and skin care to retail customers looking for salon quality products at a value price. Beauty Systems Group, branded as Cosmo Prof or Armstrong McCall stores, along with its direct sales consultants, sell professionally branded products intended for use and resale by salons to retail consumers.

 

About the role

Oversee the analysis of inventory transactions and adjustments, ensuring accuracy and consistency across systems and processes. Lead cross-functional efforts to investigate and resolve inventory-related issues, performing root cause analysis and driving remediation across multiple platforms. Provide inventory system configuration and transaction mapping support.  Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate inventory-related system changes. Provide dashboards, documentation, walkthroughs, and issue resolution. Contribute to special projects and respond to management requests, offering analytical insight and operational support as needed.

Responsibilities

Inventory Monitoring and Issue Resolution: Continuously track, analyze, and evaluate inventory transactions and adjustments to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance across systems.   Detect unusual or unexpected inventory adjustments, escalate concerns appropriately, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to investigate and resolve discrepancies. Take initiative to propose and implement corrective actions, ensuring issues are thoroughly documented and resolved in a timely manner.  Play a key role in conducting root cause investigations using system data and centralized databases, identifying process gaps and driving sustainable solutions. Work closely with IT and other departments to resolve system discrepancies and support continuous improvement initiatives.

System Configuration and Testing:  Set up new inventory system transaction codes and mapping of transactions.  Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate inventory-related system changes, including those from strategic company inventory related projects, ensuring alignment with business requirements. Support system upgrades and integrations.

Reporting & Documentation:  Maintain and enhance inventory dashboards to provide visibility and drive accountability. Prepare and generate recurring and ad hoc reports, including the development of new reporting tools to meet evolving business needs. Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all assigned responsibilities to ensure consistency.

Provide analytical and operational support for special projects and ad hoc requests from management.

 

Knowledge, skills & abilities requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Information Systems, or a related field preferredMinimum of 3 years’ experience in an accounting, finance, or audit environment, or 3 years of relevant experience within the Company.Understanding of inventory accounting and inventory transaction impacts to the general ledger preferredProficiency in Microsoft ExcelWorking knowledge of SQL for large data analysis.Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.Ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple priorities.Excellent oral and written communication skills

Willingness to travel occasionally, up to 5%. 

 

Competencies & attributes

Passionate Learner – inquisitive about the business; open to feedback and coaching, applies learning quickly; applies learning to improve processes and procedures, proactively shares learning with colleagues and leaders; realigning and reshaping projects

Flexible & Agile Adapter – responsive and open to change; works well with ambiguity; adapts to new plans or directions; keeps calm under pressure; perseveres to achieve the plan/task; doesn’t dwell on the past

Talent Builder – considers how we can create an inclusive culture; encourages input from others; invests time as an informal/formal coach or buddy; works to build a diverse team with the right skills and knowledge; looks for ways to acknowledge, motivate, and value the team

Effective Communicator – articulates in an appropriate and accurate manner; emotionally astute while remaining authentic to own style/self; encourages others to express views and opinions; demonstrates active listening and uses probing questions; is concise and relevant with data/info

Team Builder – references the importance of teamwork and actively demonstrates collaboration and sharing; builds and/or participates in effective teams; values the importance of inclusion and various sources of thought/input; humble when operating within a team   

Customer Focused Partner – understands internal and external customer needs; contributes to plans and actions to improve the associate and customer journey/experience; holds self and team accountable for improving the customer experience; is an advocate for the customer

Strategic Thinker – progressive thinking with the ability to bring new ideas to life; works with others to develop progressive and cost-effective strategies; provides suggestions to improve upon continuous improvement and scalability within department; uses a broad range of data sources

Big Picture Thinker – understands own department and how other key departments operate; adopts an inclusive approach; seeks feedback reviews progress, and adapts plans as needed; understands interdependencies with other departments 

Results Driver – effective at driving and delivering on plans; holds self and team accountable to high standard of delivery; suggests opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement; focuses on the right priorities and uses resources/time wisely; demonstrates grit and determination

Problem Solver & Decision Maker – able to consume department/operational data to identify business; identifies, gathers, and examines the relevant information; makes recommendations and takes action to solve challenges, considers importance/impact of decisions against relevant factors

Working conditions & physical requirements

This will be a hybrid role required to be onsite at the Corporate office on specified days. The work environment generally involves everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, retail stores, and residences or commercial vehicles, e.g., use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations and traffic signals, etc. The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated.

The work is sedentary; however, occasional travel to company locations may be required. Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items such as papers, files, books, small parts; using a keyboard, driving an automobile, etc. No special physical demands are required to perform the work.

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