Senior Accountant

Key member of the Accounting and Financial Services (AFS) Automotive Accounting team responsible for ensuring the integrity of the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers, providing accurate financial reporting, supporting month-end and year-end close processes, and assisting with audits.

Responsibilities

• Ensure proper accounting of transactions, reserves, and other estimates in accordance with U.S. GAAP and company policies.
• Stay current with industry, regulatory, and technical accounting developments to identify and communicate potential impacts.
• Prepare and file regulatory reports and other compliance deliverables on a monthly, annual, and ad-hoc basis.
• Ownership over the general ledger and subsidiary ledger accounts as assigned, including related monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting.
• Review and analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Review and approve journal entries, reconciliations, and other schedules prepared by staff accountants ensuring timely completion of all deliverables; document review comments and provide guidance and feedback.
• Complete assigned account reconciliations, resolving discrepancies and unreconciled items in a timely manner.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute inventory counts with operations; timely analyze the resulting adjustments to determine further action needed.
• Oversee internal and external audits, including preparation or review of schedules, analysis, documentation, and explanations.
• Provide support services to stakeholders, including independently resolving issues impacting assigned areas and serving as an escalation point for accountants.
• Research errors/irregularities in the accounting process to understand underlying causes and recommend potential solutions.
• Collaborate with other business units to manage end-to-end workflow processes for accurate and timely transaction recording.
• Develop, maintain, and review internal controls and process documentation; ensure compliance with such documentation.
• Support continuous improvement of automotive accounting processes through standardization, scalability, automation, and reduction of manual effort.
• Assist with evaluating, testing, and adopting automation and emerging system capabilities, including AI-enabled tools; recommend practical, system-enabled improvements that strengthen controls, improve data accuracy, streamline costing and reconciliation activities, and address risks in legacy workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• Minimum three years of senior accountant level work experience with general ledger accounting, period closing, estimates and reserves calculation, account reconciliation, analysis, inventory analysis, and/or financial reporting.
• Diversified and industry experience in retail, manufacturing, and automotive and/or work experience with a Big-4 national CPA firm preferred.
• CPA preferred.
• Technical accounting knowledge (GAAP).
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Oracle Financial Cloud and dealer management systems knowledge.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Analytical thinker with ability to structure and process qualitative or quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions.
• Ability to independently and resourcefully seek resolution to problems by performing necessary research to understand root causes and evaluate solutions.
• Attention to detail with clear and concise communication and work products; ability to determine appropriate level of detail based on audience.
• Ability to see how tasks fit into the bigger picture and proactively address challenges to avert downstream workflow issues.
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and willing to acquire knowledge necessary to complete tasks or resolve issues.
• Embraces teamwork and actively considers the impact of issues on the greater group; communicates and shares knowledge timely.
• Professional, respectful, and empathetic when working with others.
• Curious about how things work and self-driven to seek information needed for tasks.
• Independently seeks ways to work faster and smarter; evaluates inefficiencies and proposes improvements.

Pay

$72,900.00 - $110,820.00 per year