The Office Manager is in charge of overseeing the daily accounting operations of a business.
Responsibilities- Lead the accounting function and partner with dealership operations to ensure all financial controls and processes are established and followed to ensure profitability to include controls on payables/receivables and expense analysis
- Ensures Financial Statements are prepared timely and accurately
- Supervises periodic audits of the company's accounts. If an independent auditor is hired, the comptroller collaborates with him and provides the documents needed to complete an audit.
- Vigilant about reporting any fraud, abuse or waste of company assets.
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- Analyze information and provide data necessary to help complete the overall budget, as well as specialized ones in areas such as production budget, sales or capital expenditures.
- Provide information necessary for the company to secure loans.
- Manages and tracks the company's cash flow to better assist in the management of assets and liabilities.
- Manage controllable spend reporting and analysis related to corporate functions
- Development of forecasting reports related to all areas of dealership expenses analysis and forecasting
- Pay plan audit and consistency for processing bi-annually review
- The preparation of a monthly financial statement according to dealership and manufacturer guidelines and timeline.
- Manage the work allocation for all staff to ensure even distribution and efficiencies
- Analysis of financial data to identify trends and opportunity to improve dealership profitability.
- Oversees and audits all scheduled accounts including warranty claims, rebates, parts and vehicle inventory accounts are current and accurate.
- Reviews the reconciliation of general leDger accounts with outside sources to ensure bank reconciliations, reserve accounts and factory and floor plan payables are accurate.
- Comply with local, state and federal government reporting requirements.
- Assist with escalated customer issues
Knowledge, skills and experience required
- 5 plus years in automotive industry
- Managed a team of accounting professionals
- Bachelor's (4-year) college degree, preferably in the field of Finance or Accounting.
- Strong analytical skills and business/finance acumen
- Ability to work with teams across all levels in the organization
- High level working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint strongly preferred
