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This is a great fit for someone who is organized, detail-oriented, practical, and comfortable managing a high volume of accounting activity across multiple entities.\n\n*What you will own*\n\n*Multi entity accounting*\n\n* Support accounting activity across a dozen plus related entities\n* Maintain clean books, schedules, and records by entity\n* Track intercompany activity and help keep entity level reporting accurate\n* Support entity level reconciliations, allocations, and month end close\n* Help create consistent accounting processes across the organization\n\n*AP and AR*\n\n* Own accounts payable and accounts receivable workflows\n* Review, code, and process vendor invoices\n* Maintain vendor records, payment schedules, and supporting documentation\n* Track customer payments, deposits, receivables, and outstanding balances\n* Follow up on missing documentation, payment questions, and invoice discrepancies\n* Support weekly payment runs and cash planning\n\n*Core accounting*\n\n* Manage reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and account schedules\n* Keep financial records clean, accurate, and current\n* Support banking, credit card, balance sheet, and general ledger reconciliations\n* Identify gaps, errors, trends, and areas of financial risk\n* Create repeatable accounting processes that improve consistency and accuracy\n\n*Month end close and reporting*\n\n* Support and improve the monthly close process\n* Prepare financial statements, account reconciliations, and management reports\n* Track key business metrics and help ownership understand what the numbers are saying\n* Create reporting that is clear, useful, and tied to business decisions\n* Maintain accurate entity level reporting across locations, concepts, and related entities\n\n*Cash flow and expense management*\n\n* Monitor cash activity and support cash flow visibility\n* Review vendor payments, expenses, purchasing activity, and credit card transactions\n* Help tighten controls around spend, approvals, and documentation\n* Support banking, credit card, and balance sheet reconciliations\n* Help ownership understand upcoming cash needs, payment timing, and financial priorities\n\n*Financial analysis and business support*\n\n* Analyze sales, labor, food cost, waste, inventory, margins, and entity level performance\n* Partner with operations to identify opportunities to improve profitability\n* Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, and variance analysis\n* Build simple financial models, reports, and dashboards as needed\n* Translate financial information into practical insights for ownership and operators\n\n*Payroll, vendors, and outside partners*\n\n* Coordinate with tax partners, and outside accounting resources\n* Support payroll review, labor reporting, and related reconciliations\n* Maintain vendor records, payment schedules, and required documentation\n* Help organize information for tax, audit, lending, or investor needs\n* Follow up quickly and 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We will share full details, including the organization’s structure, growth plans, and current financial setup, with qualified candidates during the process. 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