Senior Accountant

What’s Under the Hood Drive Time  Family of Brands is the largest privately owned used car sales finance & servicing company in the nation. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Dallas, Texas, we create opportunities and improve the lives of our customers and our employees by placing a focus on putting the right customer, in the right vehicle, on the right terms and on their path to ownership.

The Drive Time Family of Brands spans across Drive Time, Bridgecrest and Silver Rock. You can find us at the intersection of technology and innovation as we use our proprietary tools and over two decades of industry knowledge to redefine the process of purchasing, financing, and protecting your vehicle.

That’s Nice, But What’s the Job?

In short, as a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for understanding accounting concepts required to maintain the general ledger, supporting subsidiary ledgers, and ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). You are technically minded and understand more technical areas of general ledger accounting. You will be responsible for preparing and recording complex journal entries and schedules, highly involved in year-end budgeting processes, as well as monthly business reporting.

This supervisory role will include the review of accounting topics, accounting records of a rapidly growing portfolio, and general reconciliations with an emphasis on the ability to manage the planning, performance, presentation and completion of special  long, our Senior Accountants are responsible for:

Serve as a key point of contact for the GoFi month-end close, owning the close calendar within your areas of responsibility and coordinating shared deliverables with affiliate accounting teams.

Prepare and review complex journal entries and monthly reconciliations across the GoFi loan portfolio — including financed receivables, origination and servicing activity, interest and fee income, and general accruals — to ensure accounting records comply with GAAP.Own the monthly fair value close for the GoFi portfolio: roll forward the cash flow expectation and residual models, add new vintages, validate model inputs and assumptions against actual performance, and prepare the resulting fair value marks and journal entries.

Prepare, reconcile, and review intercompany shared-services billing between GoFi and affiliated entities — confirming allocations are supported, consistently applied, settled, and properly eliminated in consolidation.

Validate, test, and support the build of accounting and financial models for fair value measurement, revenue and cost recognition, and portfolio performance.

Research accounting guidance as needed — fair value measurement, receivables and credit losses, and revenue recognition — and provide recommendations for technical accounting treatment, documented in clear technical memos.

Collaborate cross-functionally with the FP&A team, Capital Markets, Treasury, and Servicing/Operations to develop annual budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis.

Assist in the preparation and communication of ad-hoc and routine management reporting, including explaining the drivers of portfolio and operating expenditure performance to corporate leadership.

Support external and internal auditors through quarterly reviews and annual audits, including requests related to fair value, models, and key assumptions.

Evaluate and improve upon existing accounting processes, policies, and reporting — with a bias toward automation and eliminating manual work.

So What Kind of Folks Are We Looking for?

Organization and time management skills in spades. You’ll be handling multiple projects and deadlines that will require you to prioritize then re-prioritize… then… re-prioritize again.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. The ability to talk and write with confidence, charisma, and competence for a wide variety of audiences, including management.

Killer analytical and reporting abilities. You’ll need the capability to analyze financial data and in return, prepare timely reports on your findings.

A mind for the details. Okay, we know “detail-oriented” is on every job description –…