Inventory Control Analyst (Amazon FBA)

📍 Onsite – San Diego, CA (Symphony Towers)
💰 Salary: $125,000 – $150,000

About the Role

Luminize is hiring an Inventory Control Analyst to own Amazon FBA reconciliation and inventory controls across thousands of SKUs.

Our engineering team has already built the SP-API data pipelines pulling Amazon FBA inventory and ledger data into our warehouse. Now we need a forensic-minded operator to turn that data into control, accountability, and recoverable dollars.

This is not a reporting role.
This is an ownership role.

You will trace inventory from purchase and warehouse handling through FBA inbound, Amazon receiving, adjustments, returns, removals, and end-of-life. You will identify exactly where units fall out of the chain of custody, quantify financial impact, and drive corrective action across Warehouse, Operations, Accounting, and Engineering.

If you enjoy solving messy operational puzzles and protecting real dollars at scale — this role is for you.

What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)

Within your first three months, you will:

• Build a repeatable reconciliation process for inbound shipments from warehouse to Amazon.

• Produce a weekly variance report quantifying unreconciled units and total dollar impact by shipment, SKU, and root-cause category.

• Establish aging buckets and escalation rules for missing, delayed, misplaced, damaged, lost, disposed, unfulfillable, and unreceived units.

• Identify top recurring failure points and recommend operational fixes.

• Deliver executive-ready reporting that provides clarity to Finance and Operations — not raw data dumps.

Key Responsibilities

1. Inbound Reconciliation Ownership

Own reconciliation of inventory moving from our warehouse to Amazon FBA, including:

• Internal WMS shipment creation and outbound records

• Box- and shipment-level expected contents

• Carrier tracking and handoff validation

• Amazon receiving and ledger events

• Open discrepancies, aging, and resolution tracking

You will identify the exact point where units deviate from expected flow — packing variance, labeling issues, carrier loss, delayed receiving, or Amazon errors.

2. Amazon Ledger & Inventory Event Analysis

• Analyze FBA ledger and inventory data across receipts, shipments, returns, removals, disposals, and adjustments.

• Translate Amazon reason codes into business impact.

• Investigate adjustment patterns and unresolved exceptions.

• Quantify financial exposure tied to variance categories.

3. Exception Management & Forensic Investigation

Build and manage a structured exception queue covering:

• Inbound shipment shortages

• Misplaced vs. found unit patterns

• Damaged inventory events

• Removal order discrepancies

• Aged unresolved variances requiring escalation or reimbursement follow-up

4. Root Cause & Control Design

• Identify recurring operational failure points.

• Partner with Warehouse and Operations to implement stronger controls.

• Address data mapping mismatches between internal systems and Amazon.

• Recommend audit checks and validate variance reduction over time.

5. Reporting & Executive Visibility

Develop dashboards and reporting for CFO, Accounting, and Operations leadership that clearly show:

• Unreconciled units and total dollars at risk

• Variance by root cause

• Aging of open discrepancies

• Recovery and reimbursement opportunities

• Trend analysis by warehouse process, carrier, or Amazon event type

6. Cross-Functional Partnership

Collaborate with:

• Engineering (data quality & pipeline integrity)

• Warehouse leadership (process validation & corrections)

• Accounting (inventory variance & month-end support)

• Amazon Operations (case escalation & reimbursement tracking)

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 3+ years of Amazon FBA inventory reconciliation, operations analytics, or inventory control experience.

• Deep understanding of FBA inbound, receiving behavior, adjustments, removals, returns, and common variance drivers.

• Proven experience reconciling internal operational data against Amazon reports or ledger-level event data.

Technical Skills

• Strong SQL skills; ability to query large datasets across shipment, SKU, and event-level tables.

• Advanced Excel (Power Query, complex lookups, pivots, variance workflows).

• Ability to structure reconciliation logic with audit trails and exception handling.

Mindset

• Forensic attention to detail.

• Comfortable working with imperfect data.

• Bias toward building repeatable controls — not one-off analysis.

• Strong ownership mentality.

Preferred Experience

• SP-API sourced inventory datasets

• BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI)

• High-SKU, high-volume environments

• Reimbursement and loss recovery workflows

• WMS data models and box-content reconciliation

Why Join Luminize

We operate at scale in the Amazon ecosystem and believe strong operational controls drive profitability. This role directly protects revenue and reduces inventory risk across a multi-million-dollar footprint.

You’ll work onsite with leadership in San Diego at Symphony Towers and have visibility across Operations, Finance, and Engineering.

If you want to own inventory control at scale — and turn forensic analysis into measurable financial impact — we’d love to speak with you.