Assistant Controller

Description

Location: Irving, TX (In-Office with transition to hybrid)

Reports to: Director of Accounting & Finance

Company Size: ~$100M annual revenue

Paek Management Group is a fast-growing family office overseeing a portfolio of franchise businesses and investment holdings, including operations across dozens of retail locations. As we scale, we are building a high-performance team with the tools and infrastructure to drive disciplined execution, financial visibility, and long-term value creation.

The Assistant Controller is a hands-on accounting leader for our portfolio of franchise businesses, with family office and real estate entities added over time. This role owns the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, oversees balance sheet reconciliations, coordinates the year-end audit, and is the main point of contact with our outsourced accounting partner. The Assistant Controller serves as the accounting and finance lead for our Jiffy Lube business (72 stores), oversees our Car Wash business (11 locations) through a Senior Accountant, and manages a small in-house team that includes an Accounts Payable Manager.

The ideal candidate brings multi-location, multi-entity accounting experience and is comfortable moving between detailed reconciliation work and reporting that supports decisions. This person holds outside partners to clear standards and implements processes that make the accounting function more consistent and efficient.

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process across the franchise businesses and their legal entities, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely financial reporting against established deadlines
• Review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules prepared by the outsourced accounting firm before final review by the Director
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, including intercompany balances, and maintain debt schedules
• Support preparation and review of internal and external financial reporting packages, ensuring high-quality, accurate deliverables
• Support store, entity, landlord, and intercompany setups, and maintain related schedules
• Provide accurate financial data, reconciliations, and variance analysis to support budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting led by the Director of Accounting & Finance
• Work closely with operations leaders on P&L performance, variances, and reporting needs
• Keep accounting records organized and audit-ready

• Jiffy Lube: Serve as the accounting and finance lead, including month-end close, financial reporting, and resolving invoice and accounting issues with Operations, the AP Manager, and our outsourced partner
• Car Wash: Oversee accounting through the Senior Accountant, including review of the close, balance sheet reconciliations, and reporting, and serve as the escalation point for Car Wash issues
• Directly manage the Senior Accountant and the AP Manager, including priorities, development, and accountability, and support hiring and onboarding of the Senior Accountant
• Ensure accounting standards, review procedures, and processes are consistently followed across the team

• Coordinate the year-end audit, including auditor requests, documentation, resolution of open items, and compliance requirements
• Direct the day-to-day work of our outsourced accounting and AP partner against the service expectations set by the Director, including priorities, deadlines, quality, and review of deliverables. The AP Manager serves as primary liaison for routine AP matters
• Serve as the primary point of escalation for accounting issues, raising issues and resource constraints…