Position Summary:
The position is responsible for managing and supporting the organization's accounting and financial performance. This position will carry a broad base of financial management (analyzing, interpreting, implementing, monitoring, enhancing) and oversight responsibility to include general accounting, financial reporting, journal entry preparation, AP/AR, payroll, account reconciliation, variance, trends, productivity, and profitability analysis. This position supports the processes that produce the strategic financial plan, budgets, and monthly analysis of results, trends, and key performance indicators related to the Company's operations. This individual will have strong team, project management, and leadership skills.
He/she will need to thrive in managing priorities and expectations concurrently, across both the quick-service and full-service restaurant brands.
Role Qualifications:
• MBA preferred, bachelor's degree in finance or related field required
• CPA designation preferred, but not required
• 5+ years of accounting experience with a multi-unit service organization, restaurant, hospitality, or retail
• 3+ years of experience in a managerial or leadership role with reporting structure
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in compiling data, creating reports, and presenting clear and concise information
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently perform individual tasks within a project
• Strong computer skills including advanced MS and other systems
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise extreme discretion
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Responsible for providing financial and accounting support to field operations business leaders and the MSC Finance / Accounting team. Provides technical and administrative direction, leadership and coordination to direct reports and field operations team.
• Consults with operations and MSC business partners in areas that affect financial performance to include costs and margin analysis, capital expenditures, reporting, and measurement. Perform timely and insightful analysis and appraise management regarding operating results in terms of costs, budgets, trends, variances, profit improvements, and cost reductions.
• Reviews, develops, analyzes, and interprets financial and budgetary reports. Presents to management for review, decision-making, and action. Analyzes trends and deviations (actual performance to budget plan), monitors spending and cash flow. Recommends course correction to enhance profitability.
• Manage all activities related to the period-end close process for ten entities ensuring integrity of the transaction reporting to the general ledger
• Prepare period-end financials including balance sheet and cash flow
• Responsible for intercompany transactions, allocations, and eliminations
• Prepare quarterly combined financial statements with eliminations and quarterly covenant calculations
• Accurate & timely preparation and review of journal entries and account reconciliations
• Assess internal controls and make recommendations where appropriate
• Preparation of support schedules related to annual financial statement review, taxes, and other audits (sales tax, personal property taxes, insurance, 401k, worker's comp, etc.)
• Responsible for compliance filings/reporting such as sales tax, 1099's, Tip Allocation Reporting, personal property tax filings (571's), BLS, Multiple Worksite Reporting, Census requests, and other regulatory reporting.
• Responsible for fixed asset accounting and deprecation calculations including additions and disposals
• When applicable, research and analyze accounting guidance and present recommendations
• Support budgeting function, with ownership of identified cost centers
• Preparation and review of balance sheet account reconciliations
• Lead various finance & accounting system implementations and build-out projects, including but not limited to, ERP upgrade, Report Writer, AP automation, Restaurant Specific back-office solutions, commissary/manufacturing systems, other integration opportunities, etc.
Core Competencies
• Strong knowledge of multi-until retail and/or restaurant metrics and KPI's
• Technically savvy and proficient in MS Office, ERP accounting software, restaurant specific back-office systems, and advanced Excel
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to communicate to all levels of the organization and in diverse settings with guests, vendor partners, and employees. His/her behaviors and decisions must always represent Why Vision Values (WVV) to all parties.
• Extreme attention to detail, involvement with process improvement, and high levels of professionalism
• Highly motivated and mutually comfortable and successful in working autonomously with limited supervision and collaboratively with various strategic support leaders and teams within the organization.
• Maintain a high degree of confidentiality with guest and employee information and key business decisions which must sometimes yield sensitive and confidential consequences.
• Highly analytical and able to efficiently problem-solve in dynamic work environment
• Normally receives no instructions on routine work, general instructions on new assignments
• Develop productive and efficient employees, fostering a performance-driven culture, acting as a coach and mentor enabling them to excel in their responsibilities
Compensation and Benefits:
• Competitive Compensation (DOE)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) & Paid Sick Leave (PSL)
• Health Insurance benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• 401(k) Plan with Company Match
• Bonus Potential
• M - Card (Meal Benefit)
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel objects, reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl; talk and hear; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to customary conditions of both Field and Miguel's Support Center (MSC) locations prevalent at the time. The noise level and physical requirements (ex: temperature) are customary to restaurants' usual work environment. In addition, this position will be in the Commissary and at the MSC, as needed.
