Job Description

The Senior Accountant is responsible for reviewing and analyzing the accounting, financial planning and analysis, and regulatory compliance functions in an accurate, consistent and timely (ACT) manner and effectively communicating those results to the operational team members and regional controllers. In addition, the Senior Accountant is responsible for performing financial accountant responsibilities for their regions and facilitating a good working relationship between the shared services team and their stores

KEY TASKS:

• Review analysis, reconciliations, and work papers as assigned.
• Confirm Department tasks are completed accurately & timely.
• Consolidate, review, and analyze financial submissions and reports for management.
• Coordinate concise, accurate, consistent, timely, and auditable comments, documentation, and deliverables
• Assist in training Financial Accountants & SSC staff.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement change to achieve desired outcomes.
• Analyze, research, and make recommendations to resolve unusual or irregular transactions.
• Work with other departments to insure accurate, consistent, and timely financials. Initiate projects to make the Financial Accountant’s job easier, train the team on the new procedures, and implement.
• Develop complex ad-hoc reports and financial analysis.
• Escalate issues noted to management in a timely manner.
• Maintain Documentation for processes and procedures and update training materials as needed.

PERFORM FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT DUTIES:

• Analyze financial statements and prepare written documentation (write up) explaining the results of operations and comparison to other benchmarks (prior year, prior months, budget, etc.) Documentation should be clear and concise and expand on the reasons behind the performance or change rather than just what occurred. Analysis should be at a department level with healthy skepticism regarding the nature and timing of expenses. More specific areas of focus include but not limited to.
  • Analyze variable expenses and review closed internal work orders to ensure proper categorization and legitimacy of the expenses.
  • Analyze boat show expenses by category and provide reporting to management on the status of actual expenses to budget
  • Review allocations and other entries performed by Team Support to ensure accuracy and consistency.
  • Analyze payroll information to ensure proper coding of team members and compare actual expense to budget.
  • Review and analyze other SG&A expenses as directed.
• Perform financial calls with stores walking them through financial write ups and providing insight into their financial statements. You should be a business partner with your stores and provide recommendations on ways to enhance operations.
• Review all assigned and unassigned balance sheet accounts per the month end checklist and reconcile support to the GL. This includes but is not limited to:
  • Ensuring all prepaid assets and other long term assets exist and are being properly recognized.
  • Ensuring all inventory accounts are reasonable and balances tie to GL.
  • Ensuring fixed assets recorded by payables are capitalizable and supported and that all fixed asset and accumulated depreciation accounts are accurate based on information provided by TS.
  • Ensuring accruals, debt, and deferred revenue accounts are complete and properly calculated (if applicable).
  • Assist with any other month end responsibilities as needed.
  • Ensure all balance sheet accounts have been reconciled.
• Assist with the financial budgeting, forecasting, and projection process. Management requires pro-forma information to make accurate business decisions. As a result, it is essential that we leverage our understanding of trends and operations in order to provide forward looking information.
• Maintain spreadsheet for all non-scheduled balance sheet accounts throughout the month.
• Maintain a spreadsheet of store licenses and ensure renewals are done timely.
• Analyze the escheatment account by researching and resolving aged items.
• Responsible for scheduling and reconciling BMT and parts inventories.
• Verify the parts return process is being followed according to MarineMax policy.
• Make any necessary parts adjustments in accordance with MarineMax policy.
• Monitor cycle counts on a weekly basis.
• Assist with special projects, as needed
• Provide excellent customer support to our business partners.
• Other duties as assigned.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

• Provide excellent detailed analysis on the store and department financials
• Reconcile the balance sheet in an (ACT) manner.
• Monitor and keep track of other necessary processes.
• Internal and external customer service.
• Effective communicator and liaison with other MarineMax departments.
• Understand Corporate Objectives at all levels of the Organization.

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