Controller

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