Assistant Controller - Full Time - Days - Wixom in Wixom, Michigan at Kerry Brothers Truck Repair

About Kerry Brothers Truck Repair

About Us

Kerry Brothers Truck Repair is a fast-growing, family-owned company built on integrity, craftsmanship, and hard work. We proudly service fleets across Michigan with unmatched expertise, reliability, and customer care. Our team works on everything from heavy-duty trucks and trailers to reefer units and fabrication, making us a one-stop solution for the trucking industry.

Vision Statement To become the most responsive and complete fleet operations platform in the Midwest for fleets under 100 trucks—delivering uptime, efficiency, and peace of mind with one call, one invoice, and one accountable partner.

What We Do

Heavy Duty Truck & Trailer Repair – Complete mechanical, electrical, suspension, and brake services.

Reefer Repair & Maintenance – Full service and emergency support for refrigerated units.

Tire Services – Heavy, medium, and light-duty tire repair and replacement.

Fabrication & Welding – Custom trailer and equipment solutions.

Parts & Inventory – A robust parts operation with new, used, and online sales to keep customers moving.

Road Service & Towing – 24/7 dispatch to minimize downtime for our customers.

What Sets Us Apart

Family-Owned Values – The personal touch of a family business with the scale and expertise of a professional fleet service provider.

Full-Service Capability – From roadside assistance to complex rebuilds, we do it all under one roof.

Expert Team – Our technicians, service advisors, and parts professionals are trained, certified, and committed to excellence.

Customer First – Communication, fast turnaround, and doing the job right the first time.

Growth & Opportunity – Expanding across Michigan, creating new career paths and leadership opportunities.

Our Core Values – Growth, Integrity, Excellence, Reliability, Family, Loyalty, Fun.

Why Join Us?

At Kerry Brothers, you’re not just an employee — you’re part of a growing family that values your skills, supports your career development, and celebrates success together. We are building the future of truck repair, and we want you to be part of it.

KERRY BROTHERS TRUCK REPAIR

Job Description — Assistant Controller

Location: Metro Detroit, MI (Corporate Office) Department: Finance & Accounting Reports To: CFO

Kerry Brothers Truck Repair is Southeast Michigan's fast-growing commercial vehicle service provider, offering heavy- and light-duty truck, trailer, bus, and fleet maintenance across a rapidly expanding network of facilities. Through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions — including recent additions such as Kustom Truck & Trailer, Vehicle Clinic, and Downriver Truck and Bus, alongside new builds like the Wixom facility — Kerry Brothers now operates as a multi-entity organization spanning the Detroit metro area. As the company continues to acquire and integrate new businesses, the Finance & Accounting team plays a critical role in maintaining clean, consolidated financials across every entity.

Kerry Brothers is seeking an Assistant Controller to own the month-end close calendar, multi-entity consolidation, and consolidated financial reporting across a growing family of operating companies. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for an accountant who wants to build a controllership skill set in real time — not just prepare the work, but review it, stand up the processes behind it, and answer for the numbers.

The role carries genuine scope from day one: close ownership, review authority over staff-prepared entries and reconciliations, technical accounting positions, audit and tax coordination, lender reporting, and the accounting build-out for each newly acquired location. As Kerry Brothers continues to acquire and integrate businesses, the Finance & Accounting function will grow with it — and this position is deliberately structured as the senior technical accounting seat with a defined path to expanded scope and title as the platform expands.

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, acquisitive environment, is energized rather than overwhelmed by change, and is actively looking for the role where they stop being a preparer and start being an owner.

• Own the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close calendar across all entities — sequence tasks, assign owners, enforce deadlines, and deliver the consolidated close on schedule.

• Prepare, review, and approve journal entries for multiple legal entities, ensuring accuracy, proper support, and compliance with GAAP and internal policy.

• Own the multi-entity consolidation process, including intercompany eliminations, intercompany billing, and elimination entries across an expanding portfolio of operating companies.

• Design, maintain, and continuously refine cost and overhead allocation methodologies (labor, shared services, corporate overhead) across entities and locations.

• Own the balance sheet reconciliation process for all entities — prepare the complex reconciliations, review and sign off on those prepared by others, and drive resolution of variances and aged/open items.

• Lead integration accounting for newly acquired businesses — opening balance sheets, purchase price accounting, chart-of-accounts mapping, and onboarding each new entity into the ERP and close calendar.

• Prepare and own the consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and management reporting packages, presenting results and variance commentary to ownership and the leadership team.

• Own and continuously strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, and close documentation as the company scales and adds locations.

• Research and document technical accounting positions (revenue recognition, leases, business combinations, capitalization) in written memos supporting the treatment applied.

• Own cash flow forecasting and daily cash reporting, fixed asset and lease accounting, and sales/use tax compliance across all entities.

• Support the annual budget and periodic reforecast process, building entity- and location-level budgets and reporting actual-to-budget variances by shop.

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for external audit and tax preparation, and own lender/banking compliance reporting, borrowing base submissions, and debt covenant calculations.

• Provide day-to-day direction, review, and mentorship to staff accounting and AP/AR personnel, with scope to grow into direct supervision as the team expands.

• Identify and drive process improvements and automation opportunities as transaction volume and entity count grow.

• Serve as functional owner of the ERP for accounting — chart of accounts governance, new-entity and new-location setup, user permissions, and reporting structures.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA or active CPA candidacy strongly preferred.

• 5–10 years of progressive accounting experience, including demonstrated multi-entity reporting, consolidations, allocations, and full-cycle close ownership; prior Assistant Controller, Accounting Manager, or senior-most-accountant experience preferred.

• Public accounting experience (audit or assurance) is a plus, particularly for candidates who have since moved into industry.

• Experience in a fast-paced, growth-oriented, or acquisitive company (multi-location, private equity-backed, or serial-acquirer environment) strongly preferred.

• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, intercompany accounting, and month-end/quarter-end close cycles.

• Proficiency with an ERP/accounting system (e.g., Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, QuickBooks Enterprise) and advanced Excel skills.

• Experience with newly acquired entity onboarding or purchase accounting is a strong plus.

• Excellent organizational skills and comfort managing competing deadlines across multiple entities simultaneously.

• Industry experience in trucking, transportation, fleet maintenance, or field services is a plus but not required.

• Demonstrated ambition and a clear desire to grow into broader controllership responsibility — candidates should be able to point to scope they have taken on beyond their job description.