Title: Director, Accounting
Location: Tampa, FL - onsite role
Overview:
Our Client, a rapidly growing scale-up in the restaurant tech/payments space, is seeking a hungry, detail orientated professional to join their Finance team. The ideal candidate has demonstrated a history climbing the ranks in Finance/Accounting roles and has the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
As a growing SaaS and Payments company making a difference in today’s dynamic restaurant industry, they need a leader that not only can keep up with their rapid pace, but embraces a company-first perspective. This enthusiastic, meticulous, and confident professional would be seeking the opportunity of a lifetime, to be part of a mission that is improving the lives of restaurant owners.
The Director, Accounting will play a crucial role in supporting all company initiatives by working directly with the VP of Finance. Responsibilities include data: ownership, maintenance and retrieval, cash management, forecasting, and contributing to month-end close activities. This is an in-person role, working in their South Tampa office.
Responsibilities:
- Supports organization financial objectives by providing financial analyses and recommendations and directing staff.
- Develops accounting organizational strategies by contributing accounting and financial information, analysis, and recommendations for strategic thinking and direction, and establishing functional objectives in line with organizational objectives.
- Establishes accounting operational strategies by evaluating trends, establishing critical measurements, determining production, productivity, quality, and customer-service strategies, designing systems, accumulating resources, resolving problems, and implementing change.
- Provides financial projections by coordinating budget/forecast preparation, collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial information, and advising departments on the collection and analysis of data.
- Maintains sufficient funds by forecasting cash requirements and obligations.
- Minimizes legally required taxes by studying regulations, presenting tax strategies to management, and filing returns.
Requirements:
- BS or BA in accounting
- 7+ years of relevant accounting experience
- CPA preferred
- Accounting management experience
- Experience supervising accounting staff
- Experience in accounts payable and accounts receivables
- Communication skills
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Interpersonal skills
- Business to business selling skills
- State and federal tax laws
- Property and sales tax laws
- Computer accounting software skills
- Project management skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressure environment
- Focused on results
- Mindful of deadlines