Accounting Manager

Recharged

19d•$70,000 - $90,000•Remote

About The Position

Recharged is seeking its first in-house accounting hire to manage the daily accounting operations of the business. This role will oversee deal posting, gross accounting, inventory and reconditioning accounting, cash, receivables, payables, and the month-end close process. Currently, this work is handled by external accounting support. The position will bring these functions in-house, working closely with stores, the Dealer Management System (DMS), and transaction originators. The role involves managing the accounting process and external support providers, including accounting, tax, and audit. Recharged operates an end-to-end e-commerce marketplace for used EVs, acquiring vehicles from consumers, auctions, and dealer/fleet partners, reconditioning them, and retailing them through Recharged.com and its Experience Centers. The individual in this role will establish the processes for accurately and timely recording of all acquisitions, reconditioning costs, and sales in the financial statements. They will also automate processes with engineering and operations support, and perform reconciliations to ensure accurate unit and store-level gross profit reporting for compensation, investor, and lender reporting, as well as audits. This role collaborates with the company's co-founder, finance lead, and operations support teams, playing a key part in building the accounting function. Responsibilities include documenting accounting processes, standardizing operations (deal flow, checks, issue resolution), and establishing an efficient month-end close process. A portion of the role involves determining the optimal split between in-house and external support for accounting tasks and adjusting this as the business scales. Daily interactions will be with sales, inventory, reconditioning, and remarketing teams across all locations.

Requirements

5+ years of automotive accounting experience, at a dealer or dealer group, at a CPA firm or outsourced accounting engagement serving automotive clients, or both
Hands-on experience with deal posting and deal-level gross in a DMS (Dealertrack, Advent, CDK, Reynolds, or similar), including front-end and back-end gross by category: vehicle, F&I products, doc fee, and cost adds such as chargers and accessories
Experience running a month-end close for a dealer: bank and credit card reconciliations, balance sheet account reconciliations, inventory tied to the DMS, cutoff, and accruals
Understanding of consumer vehicle acquisition and trade-in accounting: lien payoff letters, payoff timing and funding differences, title status, and seller payouts
Working knowledge of reconditioning accounting: repair orders, internal labor and parts, and how recon cost flows into inventory and vehicle gross.
Working knowledge of accrual accounting. You do not need deep technical GAAP expertise, but you should be comfortable booking standard GAAP entries and working with outside support on anything beyond that.
Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with recon management systems such as Repair360 is a plus
CPA or CPA track is a plus.
Experience on various sides of automotive accounting: in the accounting office of a large dealer group, and/or at an accounting firm serving automotive clients
Experience supporting multiple rooftops or multiple dealer clients at once, and the organization to keep each one clean
Experience supporting a financial statement audit
Experience identifying, documenting, and booking write-offs, including uncollectible receivables, funding and payoff differences, and inventory adjustments, and separating them from vehicle gross
Familiarity with the systems side of dealer accounting: DMSs, recon management systems (Repair360 or similar), bill pay, payroll, CRMs, and the integrations between them, including a DMS transition
Comfort using modern and AI tooling to speed up or fully automate routine work, with the judgment to check the output
A bias toward rigor over polish. You'd rather chase down why two numbers don't tie than close the month with an open item

Responsibilities

Post retail and wholesale deals daily in the DMS from finalized deal jackets, with correct front-end and back-end gross by category.
Review deal jackets for completeness and resolve missing or incorrect items with the stores before posting.
Maintain the deal-level P&L report with front-end and back-end split by category.
Track deal exceptions, communicate them to the business ops and store teams, drive them to resolution or recontracting ahead of month-end close, and flag anything that needs a business decision.
Reconcile posted gross in the accounting system to deal-level gross in the DMS each month and document every variance.
Apply Recharged's gross classification policies consistently.
Record consumer purchases and trade-ins at acquisition, including lien payoffs, funding and payoff differences, negative equity, and seller payouts.
Track title status on acquired vehicles and work with the buying center and title clerks to clear open items.
Support auction, dealer, and fleet acquisitions and remarketing sales.
Reconcile inventory in the accounting system to the DMS and to physical inventory across all locations, including in-transit units.
Track reconditioning costs by unit through repair orders and the recon management system and confirm they are capitalized correctly.
Record all bank and credit card activity daily and complete bank and credit card reconciliations monthly.
Manage accounts payable through the bill pay platform, including vendor setup, approvals routing, and payment runs.
Track customer receivables and contracts in transit from lenders and clear them promptly.
Ensure AP and AR reports can be produced as needed.
Run the close checklist with our finance lead: deals into accounting on schedule, deal exceptions resolved, all balance sheet accounts reconciled, debt balances and accrued interest tying, accruals booked, payroll posted to the correct department and rooftop.
Book recurring GAAP-basis entries monthly and work with outside support on year-end adjustments.
Prepare the monthly financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows) for review, and package support so the statements and the investor and lender reporting package go out on time.
Support the auditors on the year-end audit, including physical inventory counts and support for opening balances.
Document how the accounting process should run at Recharged: the path from a signed deal to a posted deal in accounting, what is checked at each step, the timing cutoffs, and who does what between the stores, this role, the finance lead, and external support.
Recommend which work should continue to have external support and which should be handled in-house, and help put that split in place.
Serve as the accounting point person for the DMS and its integrations with the recon management system, website, CRM, bill pay, and payroll systems, and flag when data is not flowing correctly.
Document and improve the deal-to-close process and build the reports the business needs as it grows.
Help onboard new locations and new sales channels, including fleet and commercial, into the accounting workflow.