Senior Accountant-Commercial Accounting

Overview

This role is for a Senior Accountant to join the Commercial Accounting team. Reporting to the Manager, Commercial Accounting, the position is the primary executor of warranty and service parts accounting, owning day-to-day journal entries, reconciliations, and close deliverables that support the team’s warranty liability methodology and financial reporting.

As an early member of the Commercial Accounting team, you will help build foundational processes and controls that scale with the business. The ideal candidate brings strong technical accounting and warranty accounting experience, understands downstream accounting implications of operational decisions, and partners effectively across Finance, Sales, Operations, Legal, and FP&A. Deep technical grounding in ASC 450 is required.

Candidates living in, or able to relocate to, the Detroit metro area are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post journal entries for warranty accruals and service parts, including monthly expense accruals, claim settlements, and inventory adjustments, in support of the warranty liability methodology and procedures.
• Prepare quarterly and annual warranty accrual calculations, true-up schedules, and supporting workpapers for management review and financial statement disclosures.
• Support external audit preparation by assembling reconciliations, workpapers, and supporting schedules for warranty-related audit requests.
• Maintain and apply the warranty liability methodology, including preparing roll-forwards, updating assumption inputs, and flagging shifts in claims experience for management review.
• Support cross-functional initiatives with Sales, Operations, Legal, Engineering, and FP&A by providing accounting data, analysis, and conclusions that ensure warranty programs and contractual terms are accurately reflected in the financial statements.
• Partner with FP&A by providing actuals data, accounting context, and variance explanations to support warranty expense forecasting and budget development.
• Execute and continuously improve accounting processes and internal controls for warranty and service liabilities, surfacing ideas that support scalability, automation, and SOX readiness.
• Identify and escalate accounting implications of new products, services, and operational changes, and assist in documenting conclusions prior to and during product launch.
• Identify and surface opportunities for process improvement within SAP, partnering with IT to enhance data accuracy, reporting, and operational insight.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or CPA candidates preferred.
• 4+ years of relevant accounting experience; public accounting experience strongly preferred.
• Solid understanding of warranty and contingent liability accounting under ASC 450, with hands-on experience preparing accruals, roll-forwards, and reconciliations.
• Experience with service parts or spare-parts inventory accounting under ASC 330, including COGS, reserves, and cycle-count reconciliation.
• Proficiency with ERP systems (SAP preferred) and comfort working with IT on integrations and transaction flow design.
• Advanced Excel skills; strong analytical mindset with close attention to detail.
• Proven ability to build processes from scratch in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated initiative and independent thought.
• Automotive, EV, or manufacturing experience preferred.
• Self-starter comfortable working in a start-up environment and building processes from the ground up.
• Agile and adaptable workstyle; comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving processes as the business scales.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate accounting conclusions clearly for non-accounting partners and proactively escalate issues to the Manager, Commercial Accounting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Automotive, EV, or manufacturing experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual Base Pay Range: $85,431 - $140,840 USD
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k.
• Candidate may be eligible to participate in an equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to applicable program rules.

Work Authorization Requirement

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Detroit metro area (candidates living in, or able to relocate to, the Detroit metro area are preferred).