Overview

The Senior Venue Accountant is responsible for managing the financial operations of multiple assigned venues, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with GAAP. This role involves reviewing and recording sales entries, analyzing and reconciling month-end inventories, and preparing monthly closing entries. The Senior Venue Accountant will be in charge of accounts receivables, inventory valuation, and detailed profit and loss analysis. Additionally, the role includes the settlement of culinary businesses at outdoor events, such as golf tournaments and music festivals, and ensuring that all financial transactions are settled accurately and promptly. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in accounting within the restaurant, catering, or entertainment industries, with expertise in cloud-based point-of-sale and inventory systems, and will possess strong analytical and organizational skills.

This role pays a yearly salary of $65,000 plus bonus

Benefits for FT roles: Benefits: Health, Dental and Vision insurance, 401(k) savings plan, 401(k) matching, and paid time off (vacation days, sick days, and 12 holidays).

This position will remain open until October 1, 2024

Responsibilities

• Review and record sales entries (to include running sales reports directly from point-of-sale systems and discussions with management to ensure sales are complete),
• Review, analyze, and record month ending inventories (Calculating ending inventory in accordance with GAAP; also, to include detailed review/accounting of BevSpot inventory software),
• Prepare and record monthly closing entries and assist in month end close process (100% responsible for all closing entries for assigned venues),
• Collecting accounts receivables for each assigned venue,
• Process the proper valuation (analysis, calculation, recommendation) of food and beverage inventory in accordance w/ GAAP,
• Detailed analysis of profit and loss statements including discussion with venue/corporate management regarding profitability, budget, and performance,
• Settlement of the culinary business at outdoor golf tournaments and music festivals.  This includes working with restaurants/caterers located across the US to ensure their show settlements are calculated in accordance with contracts and settled within 4 business days post event (calculations, contract review, discussions w/ restaurant owners and operators, and responsibility for post-show settlement and accounting entries),
• Assisting with the computation and timely filing of monthly, quarterly, and annual sales tax returns,
• Special projects and ad hoc reporting as needed by management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, accounting certification/license preferred.
• 5 years industry experience (restaurant, catering, events, or related).
• Experience with restaurant and catering within the entertainment industry is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud-based point of sale systems (Square, Toast, etc.),
• Familiarity with cloud-based inventory and payment/ordering systems used to manage beverage inventories (Bev Spot, Fintech, etc.).
• Experience with Microsoft office software, specifically Excel.
• Ability to conduct research and perform analytical reporting.
• Strong time management and organizational skills.