Controller

Job description

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