Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Buyers Edge Platform is an outsourced accounting and technology consulting firm serving mid-sized restaurant operators. The Senior Accounting Manager oversees accounting operations across multiple clients, ensuring high-quality financial reporting and operational efficiency while managing team performance and driving continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior accounting lead across multiple clients, ensuring all deliverables are consistently accurate, timely, and aligned with expectations
- Develop a deep understanding of client operations, transaction flows, financial drivers, and reporting structures
- Identify and manage deviations between client processes and Dine standards, determining appropriate solutions
- Lead client discussions to present financials, explain variances, and provide clear, actionable insights
- Advise clients on process improvements, controls, and best practices
- Oversee all aspects of the accounting cycle and close process across teams, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance by driving strong team execution and process discipline. Perform high-level review of financial statements, reconciliations, and complex accounting areas, focusing on anomalies and risks versus routine error correction
- Identify risks, irregularities, and inefficiencies, and take action to resolve or escalate them as appropriate
- Ensure financial outputs are consistently accurate by developing team capability, strengthening processes, and reducing upstream errors
- Independently identify issues, develop solutions, and drive resolution with minimal escalation
- Serve as a trusted escalation point for Accounting Managers, clients, and internal teams
- Operate confidently within established standards and client environments, ensuring consistent execution across assigned clients while escalating decisions that impact broader processes, standards, or high-risk areas. Translate complex challenges into clear, actionable plans
- Lead, mentor, and develop Accounting Managers and offshore teams
- Ensure accountability for quality, timelines, and ownership across the team
- Strengthen team capability in technical accounting, problem-solving, and client management
- Ensure effective delegation and alignment of responsibilities on assigned clients
- Evaluate workflows and team performance, including hours vs. budget, to identify inefficiencies
- Drive improvements that reduce rework, streamline processes, and free up time
- Ensure processes are scalable, consistent, and aligned with company standards
- Identify systemic issues across clients, teams, and processes
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement long-term solutions
- Ensure improvements are sustained and issues do not recur
- Promote a culture of proactively raising and resolving issues
- Maintain deep expertise in Dine systems, tools, workflows, and accounting standards
- Ensure consistency across clients while managing necessary deviations
- Contribute to broader operational improvements and company initiatives
- Support scalable growth by improving clarity, reducing friction, and enhancing processes
- Operate independently with minimal need for VP/Director involvement
- Develop deep, connected understanding of clients, systems, and financial data
- Proactively solve and prevent issues across operations
- Continuously improve how work is performed to support scalability and growth
Skills
- Multi-unit restaurant accounting experience required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least two years in a supervisory or management role
- Advanced accounting expertise, including full-cycle oversight, complex reconciliations, and financial statement review with a focus on risk and anomalies
- Exceptional client management and communication skills, including the ability to present financials, explain insights, and advise on process improvements
- Demonstrate consistent judgment, ownership, and follow-through to build trust and operate with increasing autonomy
- Process optimization mindset with the ability to improve workflows, increase efficiency, and support scalable, standardized operations
- Strong organizational and oversight capabilities, managing multiple clients, teams, and priorities while ensuring consistent, high-quality execution
- Restaurant365 experience strongly preferred or experience with at least two other ERPs required
- CPA preferred but not required
Benefits
- Great benefits from day one. We offer medical, dental, vision, FSA, company-paid life insurance, and more—plus a 401(k) with company match.
- Grow with us. Enjoy strong training, development, and competitive pay.
- Work-life balance. Our flexible PTO policy lets you take time when you need it—no accrual required.
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