This job is not remote and requires the incumbent to be in the office at West Palm Beach full-time. There is no relocation package available so you must live within driving distance to the office. Position compensation is commensurate with experience.
Position Summary:
An opportunity exists for an ambitious professional to be part of the accounting team that currently supports nineteen restaurants with combined revenues in excess of $50 million.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and develop current staff.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
- Perform various close responsibilities, including accounting consolidation, variance analysis, and monthly/annual reporting.
- Improvement in monthly close process.
- Manage external audit requirements.
- Manage operational data while maintaining data accuracy and integrity.
- Develop a business partnership with store operations, support center, and management team to assist decision making and achieve desired business results by positively driving accountability.
- Asset Management including tax depreciation schedules.
- Preventing inaccuracies in financial statements by setting up internal control systems and adopting proper policies for financial reporting.
- Understand and help oversee day to day POS (Point of Sale) system administration.
- Help implement new systems and the upgrading of existing systems.
- Sales Tax Processing and Landlord reporting.
- Handling and Processing State license requirements.
- Perform Maintenance in Restaurant 365.
- Assist in the annual budget process.
- Assisting in special projects as needed
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ideally come from a multi-location geographically dispersed employee population in the restaurant/hospitality industry
- Strong operational accounting experience coupled with business common sense.
- Knowledge of all aspects of GAAP
- Effective organizational and time management skills to ensure deadlines are consistently met
- Must be hands on with an entrepreneurial spirt
- Proficiency in MS Excel and accounting ERP systems, (Restaurant 365) a plus
- Self-motivated; high bias for action
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting is required; CPA is preferred
- Minimum of 8 years in a supervisory role in accounting
- The successful candidate will be accounting professional with a process-driven focus
- Experience handling external audit process, including consolidations and footnote preparation
- Strong Accounting experience and Operations business partnering
- Possess strong leadership skills and team building skills as well as exceptional analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
