Full Charge Bookkeeper

Job Description

Job Description

Position: Full-Charge Bookkeeper – Restaurant Operations
Location: West Hollywood, CA

About Us
Laurel Hardware Co. is a multi-location hospitality company operating several restaurants throughout Los Angeles. We are looking for an experienced Full-Charge Bookkeeper to take ownership of the day-to-day bookkeeping and financial reporting for four restaurant entities.

Position Overview
The Full-Charge Bookkeeper will oversee the complete bookkeeping cycle for four restaurant locations, with responsibility for maintaining accurate books, completing reconciliations, supporting month-end close, monitoring inventory and cost of goods, preparing financial reports, and coordinating with management and our external CPA team.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, hands-on, comfortable working across multiple entities, and experienced with restaurant or hospitality accounting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate books and general ledgers for four restaurant entities.
• Record and reconcile sales, deposits, merchant processing activity, payroll entries and other financial transactions.
• Complete monthly bank, credit card, loan, intercompany and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Manage the month-end bookkeeping process and ensure accounts are accurate and ready for financial reporting.
• Prepare monthly financial statements and supporting schedules for management review.
• Review financial results and identify unusual transactions, discrepancies or variances requiring follow-up.
• Maintain accurate inventory and cost-of-goods records and work with operations to investigate material variances.
• Prepare and reconcile sales tax reporting and coordinate timely filings and payments.
• Maintain fixed-asset schedules and supporting documentation.
• Track and reconcile intercompany transactions among related entities.
• Monitor daily cash activity and assist with account transfers and other treasury-related bookkeeping as needed.
• Provide payroll support, including reviewing payroll information, recording payroll transactions and reconciling payroll accounts.
• Prepare 1099 information and assist with year-end accounting requirements.
• Maintain organized accounting records and supporting documentation.
• Work closely with the AP team to ensure vendor activity is properly recorded in the general ledger.
• Coordinate with external CPAs and provide schedules, reconciliations and supporting documentation as requested.
• Help identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, controls and reporting across the restaurant entities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-charge bookkeeping or comparable accounting experience.
• Experience managing the books for multiple entities strongly preferred.
• Restaurant, hospitality or other high-volume operating environment experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of accrual accounting, general ledger accounting and month-end close.
• Experience with QuickBooks Online and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with restaurant POS and inventory/accounting systems is a plus.
• Experience with Toast POS and Toast Payroll preferred
• Experience working with restaurant tip sheets and tip reconciliation preferred.
• Strong reconciliation and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to independently manage deadlines and competing priorities across multiple entities.
• Comfortable working collaboratively with operations, payroll, AP, management and external accounting professionals.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business or a related field preferred.

Salary & Benefits

• $75,000–$80,000 annually, DOE
• Employer-sponsored health benefits
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off and holidays
• Additional benefits and eligibility details provided during the hiring process

What Success Looks Like

The right person for this role will ensure that all four restaurant entities have clean, current and fully reconciled books; month-end reporting is completed accurately and on time; financial issues are identified before they become larger problems; and management can rely on the financial information being presented.

Pay: $75,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person