Assistant Controller

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

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

Reports to: Director of Accounting & Finance

Company Size: ~$100M annual revenue

About Paek Management Group

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.

Role Overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

Close, Reconciliation & Reporting

• 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

Business-Line & Team Leadership

• 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

Audit & Outsourced Partner Management

• 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 along with recommended solutions
• Assist with training outsourced resources on company-specific processes
• Serve as day-to-day contact for lender, auditor, tax, and insurance advisor requests, including tax compliance deadlines

Process, Controls & Systems

• Implement and maintain SOPs and internal controls established by the Director, recommend improvements, and drive efficiency across accounting workflows in Sage Intacct
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate reconciliations, reporting, and accounting workflows using AI and other technologies
• Support special accounting and finance projects, including new system or reporting tool implementations

What Success Looks Like (First 6 Months)

• Understands the accounting structure, outsourced model, and operations for each of our businesses
• Owns the Jiffy Lube close and serves as Operations' primary accounting contact within the first two to three closes
• Takes over day-to-day management of the outsourced accounting partner and builds strong working relationships with the AP Manager, admin staff, and key stakeholders
• Helps hire and onboard the Senior Accountant and, once in place, oversees the Car Wash close and reconciliation review
• Owns close coordination and reconciliation review across the franchise businesses, including debt schedules and monthly reporting, and supports the current year-end audit

Requirements:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting and/or CPA
• 5+ years of accounting/finance experience
• Experience managing month-end close and leading or supporting audits
• Experience supervising and developing accounting staff
• Multi-location accounting experience (automotive service, franchise, retail, or quick-service a plus)
• Multi-entity accounting experience
• Strong Excel and ERP skills (Sage Intacct a plus); experience building SOPs and workflow documentation
• Excellent organizational, communication, and relationship-management skills; a self-starter comfortable in a lean organization

Preferred

• Experience with complex entity structures and ownership arrangements (strongly preferred)
• Experience coordinating outsourced accounting and AP teams
• Technical skills with AI tools (such as Claude), Power Query, and Python
• Experience giving financial presentations to senior leadership

Key Competencies 

1. Close and Reconciliation Discipline: Delivers a consistent, on-time close across multiple businesses and legal entities, with accurate, well-supported reconciliations
2. Hands-On and Review: Comfortable doing the work and reviewing the work of others, including the outsourced partner
3. Multi-Entity, Multi-Location Fluency: Understands how the entities and locations relate to each other and roll up into reporting
4. Audit Readiness: Keeps records organized year-round and sees the audit through to resolution
5. Partner and Stakeholder Management: Holds the outsourced partner to deadlines and quality, and works effectively with operations leaders, auditors, lenders, and outside advisors
6. Process Builder: Documents, implements, and improves accounting workflows and controls
7. Team Leadership: Sets clear expectations, develops staff, and holds the team accountable for quality and deadlines

We take care of our team, and our benefits reflect that. As an Assistant Controller, you'll receive:

• Comprehensive medical insurance
• Employer-paid basic life insurance
• Supplemental benefits to fit your needs
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Hybrid work flexibility after onboarding
• The opportunity to build and shape the accounting function across multiple businesses

If you're an accounting leader who enjoys building strong processes and partnering across multiple businesses, we'd love to hear from you.