Accounting Manager
Canada Custom Autoworks is a growing multi-location automotive retailer specializing in tires, wheels, lift kits, and vehicle customization. Operating across 10+ entities within a unified NetSuite environment, we are building a best-in-class operational accounting function to support continued growth.
We are seeking an Accounting Manager to lead our day-to-day accounting operations while serving as a key bridge between accounting and operations.
This is not a back-office accounting role. Success requires strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with purchasing, receiving, inventory, sales, and management teams across the organization. You must be comfortable investigating issues, driving accountability, and ensuring operational transactions flow accurately through the accounting system.
Reporting to the Controller, you will own the operational accounting cycle across accounts payable, accounts receivable, reconciliations, and month-end close while leading the team responsible for delivering accurate and timely results.
What You'll Do
Lead the Accounting Team
- Lead, develop, and support AP analysts and accounting staff.
- Establish priorities, monitor workloads, and ensure deadlines are consistently achieved.
- Drive accountability for bill processing, reconciliations, collections, and month-end deliverables.
- Resolve issues at your level and within your team before they escalate.
- Improve workflows, controls, reporting, and team effectiveness.
Partner with Operations
- Work directly with purchasing, receiving, inventory, sales, and management teams to investigate and resolve transaction issues.
- Build strong working relationships across departments.
- Communicate accounting requirements and findings clearly to non-financial employees.
- Translate operational activity into accurate financial results.
- Hold stakeholders accountable while maintaining positive working relationships.
Accounts Payable
- Oversee high-volume three-way matching of purchase orders, receipts, and vendor bills.
- Investigate and resolve quantity, pricing, freight, tax, and receiving discrepancies.
- Manage vendor statement reconciliations and aged balances.
- Ensure vendor returns are tracked through final credit recovery.
- Identify and resolve duplicate bills, duplicate receipts, and incorrect balances.
Accounts Receivable
- Manage customer invoicing, collections, cash application, and account reconciliations.
- Resolve disputes, deductions, short-pays, and aged balances.
- Monitor and maintain healthy AR aging across all entities and locations.
Reconciliations & Month-End
- Own bank, credit card, vendor, and key general ledger reconciliations.
- Support and execute month-end close activities across 10+ entities.
- Investigate and clear variances between subledgers and the general ledger.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and repeatable month-end processes.
Process Improvement & Cost Control
- Identify inefficiencies, duplicate spend, and cost-saving opportunities.
- Recommend and implement process improvements that improve accuracy and reduce manual effort.
- Support vendor consolidation, rebate recovery, and credit recovery initiatives.
- Strengthen controls and accountability throughout the transaction cycle.
What We're Looking For
Required
- Diploma or degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 5+ years of accounting experience in AP, AR, operational accounting, or full-cycle accounting.
- Leadership or supervisory experience.
- Strong three-way matching experience.
- Strong reconciliation experience including bank, credit card, vendor, and general ledger accounts.
- ERP experience.
- Experience working in a multi-location business environment.
Preferred
- NetSuite experience.
- Experience in inventory-based industries such as automotive, retail, distribution, manufacturing, construction, or industrial products.
- Experience supporting high-volume operations.
- Strong Excel skills.
You Will Excel Here If You
- Think operationally and understand how purchasing, receiving, inventory, AP, AR, and accounting all connect.
- Are naturally curious and enjoy investigating discrepancies and solving problems.
- Can communicate effectively with non-financial employees, managers, and ownership.
- Build trust quickly while maintaining accountability.
- Are comfortable having difficult conversations when processes are not being followed.
- Lead through organization, follow-through, and ownership.
- Thrive in a hands-on, fast-moving, blue-collar environment rather than a corporate back office.
Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to play a key leadership role within a growing and operationally complex business. You will work closely with the Controller and ownership team, influence how processes are designed, strengthen controls, develop staff, and help build a scalable accounting function that supports future growth.
For the right candidate, this role offers significant opportunity for growth and increased responsibility as the organization continues to expand.
Pay: $75,000.00-$95,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)
Experience:
- Accounting: 5 years (required)
- ERP systems: 3 years (preferred)
- Retail Accounting: 3 years (required)
- Leadership or Supervisory: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person
