Accounting Supervisor

Position Summary

Step into a people leadership role where your technical expertise and coaching instincts work together to drive team performance. As an Accounting Supervisor on our Controllership team, you will oversee a team of accounting professionals by reviewing their work, developing their capabilities, and ensuring accurate, timely deliverables across complex accounting processes. You will serve as a subject matter expert, a problem solver, and a go-to resource for your team while partnering closely with management to align priorities and strategic goals. If you are ready to make the leap from individual contributor to impactful leader, this is your opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day and month end accounting operations by overseeing team deliverables, ensuring work meets the highest standards of accuracy, completeness, and documentation quality within established deadlines
• Translate GAAP knowledge into practical guidance, keeping procedures current and serving as the team's go-to resource on accounting matters
• Maintain a strong control environment by overseeing risk assessments and control documentation, closing gaps, and making informed recommendations that balance risk with operational efficiency
• Use performance data and KPIs to spot trends, drive accountability, and continuously raise the bar on team output and process execution
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by empowering staff to challenge the status quo and seeing improvement initiatives through to completion
• Develop and inspire your team through intentional coaching, meaningful feedback, and personalized growth plans
• Anticipate roadblocks, resolve issues, and communicate risks proactively while keeping management informed and escalating when necessary
• Build collaborative relationships across the organization, adapting communication style to effectively engage team members, peers, and senior leadership alike

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting required
• 5+ years of accounting experience required
• Supervisory experience, a plus

• CPA preferred

• MBA preferred

• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint required

• Proficiency in the use of Qlik sense and Power Query preferred

• Strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders

• Strong problem solving, judgment, time management, and organizational skills. Ability to multitask and self-prioritize work.

Physical Requirements:

-The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.