Accounting Manager

Job Purpose and Function

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The Retail and Site Audit Accounting Manager oversees the day-to-day operations of the Retail Accounting Team. The Accounting Manager role is responsible for maintaining the financial information and preparing financial reports in compliance with GAAP and internal reporting requirements.

The Accounting Manager will lead a team of accounting professionals responsible for the general ledger, cash management, retail accounting, cost accounting, and merchandise. This role will provide leadership to ensure accuracy and adherence to established policies and procedures relevant to the accounting functions.

How You’ll Make an Impact
Ensures the accuracy and consistency of data for merchandise and petroleum inventory, car wash revenue, loyalty revenue/expense and general ledger. Monitors, researches, and reviews gross margins monthly related to merchandise and petroleum categories. Perform various ongoing and special ad hoc operational and accounting reports.
Assists Operations with establishment and adherence to cash management and loss prevention policies and procedures related to convenience stores.
Supervises the preparation of monthly journal entries.
Ensures timely preparation and analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and assists outside CPA firm for audit purposes.
Supervises monthly general ledger reconciliations of assigned GL accounts related to convenience stores, car wash, and petroleum.
Oversees, monitors, and works to improve accounting procedures relating to areas of responsibility, including, but not limited to, database management and ERP upgrades and/or changes.
Assists in identification of areas of cost control, revenue and margin generation to improve bottom line performance. Assists in the implementation of identified process improvements and coordinates with internal departments and external vendors.
Assists Operations with annual planning/budget process.
Oversee the training and development of staff and delegate duties to meet departmental and organizational goals.

What We’re Looking For

Minimum requirements
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, required; master's degree in accounting or CPA desired, but not required.
5+ years of functional and operational accounting experience.
3+ years of supervisory experience across accounting and/or finance functions
Convenience retail (c-store), restaurant, and/or grocery industry experience required.
Experience with PDI Technologies enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems required.
Strong financial analysis, research and technical accounting skills.
Authorization to work in the U.S. (visa sponsorship or C2C opportunities not available at this time).
Willing to submit to a pre-employment background check, including credit check, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

An ideal candidate will also have
Financial management experience.
Technical accounting capacity.
Performance management experience.
Strong verbal and written communication capability.
Personal effectiveness/credibility.

Key Competencies
Delivering results and meeting customer expectations.
Working with people.
Adapting and responding to change.
Analyzing.
Applying expertise and technology.
Leading and supervising.
Persuading and influencing.

Availability and Travel
This hybrid role complies with our company’s hybrid telework schedule. Our operating days and hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, with in-office days being Tuesday through Thursday, reserving Monday and Friday as work-from-home.
Occasionally, business needs may require periodic work obligations outside of core business hours.
This role may require occasional travel, including overnight stays for training, conferences, or other events with reimbursement available for approved accommodation and/or expenses.

Why You Should Join Wills Group
As a thriving, family-owned, $1.5 billion company headquartered in scenic La Plata, Maryland, (a 45-minute commute from Washington, DC), we take pride in our strong presence across the Mid-Atlantic region. Featuring nearly 300 retail locations of our family of brands including Dash In, Splash In ECO Car Wash, and SMO Motor Fuels, we are shaping the future of convenience retailing, fuels marketing, and commercial real estate.

Since 1926, our work-hard, play-hard mentality propels us to serve the communities that have supported us throughout the years. Keeping lives in motion is more than our mission-it's our way of life We're dedicated to empowering individuals to embrace new possibilities and chart their own paths to success. Discover the fulfillment of working alongside passionate professionals, where your ideas are valued, and your potential is nurtured. Become part of something bigger when you join the Wills Group

Benefits and Perks
Embark on a rewarding journey where your growth, future, and well-being take center stage As a certified Great Place to Work™, the Wills Group understands today's professionals desire meaningful careers with a culture that's as authentic as possible. We pride ourselves in fostering an environment that supports your overall development.

Look forward to joining a company that celebrates your wins whether big or small. You can count on us to provide industry-leading total rewards packages that include a range of benefits and perks that contribute to your overall well-being:
Financial Well-being – Employer 401(k) match (currently at 7%), health savings plan, and financial planning.
Physical Well-being – Comprehensive health, vision, and dental plans tailored to meet the needs of our people and their families, even their pets
Paid Time Off – Vacation, sick, personal, community engagement, and parental leave for new parents.
Work/Life Balance – Hybrid and flexible work environment, Employee Assistance Program, travel assistance, family life planning.
Education and Development Opportunities – 100% tuition reimbursement to support our team’s education goals, robust development programs, and certificate program assistance (up to 100% employer-paid).
Competitive Salary - Competitive pay matched to DC Metro area.

Wills Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies in response to the Wills Group careers page or a Wills Group social media post. Wills Group will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to these unsolicited resumes. Wills Group explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Wills Group.

Wills Group is an equal opportunity employer. Wills Group does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. #HQ

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