Restaurant Accounting Lead
Core
First Bookkeeper on Toast's Financial Management team, handling real client bookkeeping for pilot restaurant customers while building the service and tooling from scratch.
Role type
Founding Bookkeeper (0-to-1 product builder)
Builds
End-to-end bookkeeping service, SOPs, controls, and QA processes for restaurant clients
Domain
Restaurant/Hospitality Accounting + Fintech
Required skills
Restaurant bookkeeping, COGS and prime cost, tip pooling and reporting, multi-location consolidation, high-volume POS reconciliation, multi-jurisdiction sales tax, process building from scratch, ambiguity tolerance
Preferred skills
Tech startup experience, embedded finance/fintech background, AI tools proficiency, CPA/CB credential
Technologies
Modern bookkeeping and accounting software, POS systems, AI tools (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end bookkeeping for pilot restaurant customers, serve as in-house expert on restaurant accounting, embed with product/engineering to shape roadmap, design and document SOPs and controls, work directly with restaurant operators, define function standards and future hiring needs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
