Dealership Controller

Description

Irwin Marine is seeking an experienced Dealership Controller to provide financial leadership and accounting oversight across our dealership locations. This is a highly visible, hands‑on role for an accounting professional who can maintain strong financial controls while partnering with the General Manager and operational leaders to drive accuracy, accountability, and sound business decisions.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical accounting skills with a practical, business‑minded approach. You know how to dig into the details, identify the root cause of an issue, strengthen processes, and communicate financial information in a way that helps operating teams take action.

This position is primarily based at its assigned location in Laconia, with periodic travel to our other locations as business needs require. Travel is expected to be minimal.

As Dealership Controller, you will oversee accounting and financial control activities across assigned Irwin Marine locations and help ensure the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and integrity of our financial reporting.

• Lead and oversee the monthly close process for assigned dealership locations.
• Ensure financial activity is recorded in the proper period, legal entity, location, department, and general ledger account.
• Review financial statements, accruals, adjusting entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Identify unusual balances, margins, transactions, and trends and proactively drive issues through resolution.
• Maintain strong balance‑sheet integrity and ensure material accounts are properly reconciled.

• Oversee the financial integrity and reconciliation of boat and parts inventory.
• Monitor inventory adjustments, transfers, write‑offs, and other significant exceptions.
• Ensure floorplan lender statements reconcile to the general ledger and underlying boat inventory.
• Monitor sold units requiring payoff and investigate aged or unusual floorplan items.
• Review curtailments, interest, lender fees, credits, and related activity.

• Ensure completed boat transactions are accurately and timely recorded.
• Review sales, cost of sales, gross profit, trade‑ins, deposits, taxes, fees, commissions, and related accounting.
• Monitor contracts in transit and investigate aged or unfunded transactions.
• Oversee accounting for customer deposits, manufacturer rebates, incentives, and other deal‑related receivables.
• Investigate unusual deal margins and posting discrepancies and coordinate corrective action.

• Oversee reconciliation of service WIP and review aged or significant open repair orders.
• Monitor service revenue, labor, cost of sales, and gross profit for accounting anomalies.
• Review warranty receivables and aging and ensure manufacturer payments and credits are properly applied.
• Partner with service leadership to resolve WIP and warranty discrepancies.

• Maintain oversight of accounts receivable and accounts payable activity.
• Review aging, unapplied cash, vendor credits, unusual balances, and collection concerns.
• Ensure bank accounts, deposits, electronic payments, credit‑card settlements, and other cash activity are properly reconciled.
• Oversee intercompany reconciliations and drive timely resolution of differences.

• Lead and support budgeting, forecasting, reforecasting, and financial analysis across the region.
• Analyze budget‑to‑actual results and operating trends to identify underlying business drivers.
• Distinguish accounting issues and…