Manager, General Accounting (POS Accounting)

Responsibilities

• Prepares financial reports, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis while overseeing the financial integrity of Point of Sale (POS) and retail accounting operations.
• Reviews and reconciles financial statements, POS transactions, and store sales data, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and alignment with accounting principles.
• Leads a specialized Front End Services accounting team responsible for journal entries, reconciliations, financial reporting, and analysis.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for POS accounting, supporting system updates, new business initiatives, and cross-functional partners including Front End Operations and Digital teams.
• Analyzes financial data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Supports accounting staff in month-end closing, audit preparation, financial planning, and system implementations.

Qualifications

• Requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in accounting software, POS systems, and Microsoft Excel.
• Leads multiple functional teams by managing, prioritizing, and reviewing complex accounting processes—including POS retail accounting—to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and effective resource deployment.
• Establishes expectations and direction for both general accounting and POS-specific functions.
• Drives financial performance and accountability through oversight of earnings, cash flow, profitability, and POS financial integrity.
• Absolutely ensures accurate daily reconciliation of store sales data to downstream systems and the general ledger.
• Develops high-performing teams through coaching, mentorship, cross-training, and technical accounting guidance.
• Aligns development plans with strategic objectives and supports staff responsible for POS accounting functions.
• Promotes a culture of excellence through ongoing feedback and effective collaboration with Front End Operations and Digital partners.
• Establishes clear performance metrics and annual team goals.
• Drives strategic execution by promoting a clear vision across stakeholders and translating objectives into actionable, customer-focused initiatives.
• Serves as the primary accounting partner to the POS Digital Team, supporting system implementations, requirements gathering, design input, testing, and deployment.
• Applies deep understanding of systems, POS data flow, and financial impacts to drive informed decisions that balance urgency, value, materiality, and risk.
• Identifies major issues and recognizes trends and their general implications for the business.
• Evaluates business opportunities to make strategic choices that effectively mitigate financial risks and communicates remediation plans.
• Actively pursues continuous improvement.
• Uses metrics and measures to identify areas of enhancement and drive decisions and improvements.
• Understands materiality, speed to delivery, urgency, and risks.
• Comprehensive knowledge of business principles, flow of data, and relevant regulations (i.e., GAAP, Sales Tax, Payroll) and applicable regulatory standards to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance.
• Provides regulatory guidance within the scope of financial supervision, ensuring alignment with internal controls, audit readiness, and evolving industry requirements.
• Strong management / leadership skills with demonstrated success in leading and working complex issues through the team with the ability to influence and guide.
• Able to manage multiple priorities and quickly shift focus.
• Able to coach, mentor and develop others.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong understanding of data flow across systems, with the capability to analyze system logic and translate business impact to identify problems and support solutions.
• Applies advanced analytical and problem-solving skills to comprehensively understand outcomes and opportunities, inform strategic decision-making, optimize departmental performance, and align operations with organizational goals.
• Expert verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and confidently interact with business leaders.
• Effectively translates Accounting topics into easily understood information through impactful visualizations.