Centralized Accounting Manager - Holman Vancouver

Holman is a family-owned, global automotive services organization anchored by our deeply rooted core values and principles that have enabled us to continue Driving What’s Right throughout the last century.

The automotive markets Holman serves include fleet management and leasing; vehicle fabrication and upfitting; component manufacturing and productivity solutions; powertrain distribution and logistics services; commercial and personal insurance and risk management; and retail automotive sales as one of the largest privately owned dealership groups in the United States.

• Lead an assigned Centralized Accounting operating tower, including process design, service levels, policy execution, capacity planning, month-end readiness, and operational performance.
• Lead through a formal supervisory structure by setting expectations, coaching supervisors and leads, reinforcing accountability, and ensuring consistent execution across assigned teams.
• Develop and maintain a sustainable leadership and career ladder within the assigned tower, including support for supervisors, leads, senior specialists, and specialist progression.
• Ensure accurate and timely accounting transactions in alignment with company policies, internal controls, and applicable accounting standards.
• Own the operating rhythm for assigned functions, including service levels, throughput measures, quality indicators, backlog tracking, close readiness, and escalation routines.
• Identify, evaluate, and resolve operational, technical, organizational, and control-related issues impacting accounting accuracy, efficiency, timeliness, or service quality.
• Strengthen the control environment by ensuring appropriate segregation of duties, independent review, documented procedures, timely escalation, and remediation of known control gaps.
• Partner with the Director - Centralized Accounting and peer managers to align priorities, staffing, service delivery, and transformation efforts across Centralized Accounting.
• Collaborate with business partners, field leadership, dealership accounting leaders, Finance, Internal Audit, Human Resources, Technology, and other stakeholders to ensure accounting operations support broader business needs.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts, including standardization of procedures, improvement of close-related processes, reduction of rework, management of aged items, and identification of automation opportunities.
• Partner with process, systems, and project resources to support dashboards, operating metrics, SOP consolidation, checklist standardization, system enhancements, and automation initiatives.
• Evaluate workload, staffing, and capacity needs for assigned functions and make recommendations related to permanent staffing, temporary capacity, backfill, and prioritization of backlog work.
• Support the implementation of new job profiles, career laddering, role clarity, and performance expectations within Centralized Accounting.
• Recruit, develop, retain, and performance-manage talent within the assigned tower, with emphasis on building leadership capability and sustainable bench strength.
• Communicate performance, risks, resource needs, control gaps, and operational priorities to senior leadership in a clear and timely manner.
• Manage assigned projects, initiatives, and transformation efforts through execution, ensuring alignment with scope, timing, expected outcomes, and organizational priorities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, accuracy, service, and continuous improvement.
• Perform all other duties and special projects as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field strongly preferred but not required.
• 5 to 7+ years of progressive accounting, finance, or dealership accounting operations experience.
• 3+ years of leadership experience preferred, including experience leading through supervisors, team leads, or other subordinate leaders.
• Additional education, certifications, or other relevant distinctions preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and related collaboration tools.
• Experience with dealership accounting systems, accounting software, workflow tools, reporting tools, and automation or process improvement tools preferred.
• Experience managing accounting operations with measurable service levels, close deadlines, reconciliations, transaction processing, control requirements, and cross-functional…