Senior Accounting Manager – Multi-Unit Restaurants

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the senior accounting lead for various clients, ensuring that deliverables are accurate and timely, in line with expectations.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of client operations, transaction flows, financial drivers, and reporting structures.

• Recognize and manage discrepancies between client processes and Dine standards.

• Facilitate client discussions to present financial reports, clarify variances, and offer actionable insights.

• Provide clients with advice on process enhancements, controls, and industry best practices.

• Supervise the accounting cycle and closing process across different teams.

• Assess financial statements, reconciliations, and complex accounting areas for anomalies and risks.

• Identify and address or escalate risks, irregularities, and inefficiencies.

• Proactively identify issues, formulate solutions, and drive their resolution.

• Serve as a point of escalation for Accounting Managers, clients, and internal teams.

• Guide, mentor, and develop Accounting Managers and offshore teams.

• Ensure accountability for quality, timelines, ownership, delegation, and responsibilities.

• Assess workflows and team performance, including hours relative to budget.

• Promote improvements that minimize rework, streamline processes, and create additional time.

• Execute root cause analyses and implement sustainable, long-term solutions.

• Maintain expertise in Dine systems, tools, workflows, and accounting standards.

• Contribute to operational enhancements and company initiatives.

• Foster scalable growth by increasing clarity, reducing friction, and improving processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience with Restaurant365 is highly preferred, or experience with at least two other ERPs is required.

• Required multi-unit restaurant accounting experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive accounting experience.

• At least two years in a supervisory or management position.

• Advanced accounting expertise, encompassing full-cycle oversight, complex reconciliations, and financial statement reviews with a focus on risks and anomalies.

• Outstanding client management and communication skills, including the ability to present financials, elucidate insights, and provide advice on process enhancements.

• Consistent judgment, ownership, and follow-through.

• Mindset geared towards process optimization and the ability to enhance workflows, boost efficiency, and support standardized operations.

• Strong organizational and oversight skills across multiple clients, teams, and priorities.

• CPA certification preferred but not mandatory.

• Must be able to work remotely from within the US.

• Employer is unable to provide work sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• FSA

• Company-paid life insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Training and development

• Competitive pay

• Flexible PTO policy with no accrual required

• Remote work arrangement