Controller

The Tabletop Group; Utah; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential bakery brand seeks a Controller to manage multi-entity accounting across 12+ entities in Utah. You will own AP/AR, month-end close, reconciliations, and financial reporting, delivering clear analyses to ownership.

You will build scalable accounting processes, monitor cash flow and vendor relations, and partner with operations to drive profitability. Strong detail orientation and cross-entity coordination are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong accounting experience in a growing business environment.
• Experience working with multiple entities, locations, departments, or business units.
• Ability to own AP, AR, reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and month end close.
• Comfort managing high volume accounting details with accuracy.
• Understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and controls.
• Ability to support transactional and higher level financial analysis.
• Organizational skills to keep multiple entities clean and current.
• Practical, business-minded approach to accounting and finance.
• Ability to explain financial information to non-finance leaders.
• Experience with intercompany transactions and entity-level reporting.
• Experience with external CPA, payroll, lenders, or investors.

Responsibilities

• Multi-entity accounting across a dozen plus entities; maintain clean books and records.
• Own AP/AR workflows, vendor invoices, payments, and reconciliations.
• Manage reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and schedules.
• Support month-end close, banking references, and general ledger reconciliations.
• Develop repeatable processes to improve consistency and accuracy.
• Prepare statements and management reports; track key business metrics.
• Build financial analysis to inform ownership and operators.
• Collaborate with operations on profitability improvements and budgeting.
• Coordinate with tax partners, payroll, and outside accounting resources.
• Help owners understand cash needs, timing, and priorities.

Skills

Multi-entity accounting

AP/AR ownership

Month-end close

Intercompany reporting

Financial analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Cash flow planning

Financial modeling

Vendor management

Ownership communication

QuickBooks

NetSuite

Restaurant365

MarginEdge

Toast

Square

Bill.com

Ramp

Intercompany transactions

Financial controls

Tools

QuickBooks

NetSuite

Restaurant365

MarginEdge

Toast

Square

Bill.com

Ramp

Job description

Confidential, retained search on behalf of a high growth bakery brand

Location

Utah

About the role

We are conducting a confidential search for a Controller for a growing bakery brand. This is a key accounting and finance role for someone who can live comfortably in the details while also helping ownership understand the bigger financial picture.

You will serve as the Controller across a dozen-plus related entities, including AP, AR, reconciliations, month-end close, reporting, cash visibility, and financial analysis. This is a great fit for someone who is organized, detail-oriented, practical, and comfortable managing a high volume of accounting activity across multiple entities.

What you will own

Multi entity accounting

• Support accounting activity across a dozen plus related entities
• Maintain clean books, schedules, and records by entity
• Track intercompany activity and help keep entity level reporting accurate
• Support entity level reconciliations, allocations, and month end close
• Help create consistent accounting processes across the organization

AP and AR

• Own accounts payable and accounts receivable workflows
• Review, code, and process vendor invoices
• Maintain vendor records, payment schedules, and supporting documentation
• Track customer payments, deposits, receivables, and outstanding balances
• Follow up on missing documentation, payment questions, and invoice discrepancies
• Support weekly payment runs and cash planning

Core accounting

• Manage reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and account schedules
• Keep financial records clean, accurate, and current
• Support banking, credit card, balance sheet, and general ledger reconciliations
• Identify gaps, errors, trends, and areas of financial risk
• Create repeatable accounting processes that improve consistency and accuracy

Month end close and reporting

• Support and improve the monthly close process
• Prepare financial statements, account reconciliations, and management reports
• Track key business metrics and help ownership understand what the numbers are saying
• Create reporting that is clear, useful, and tied to business decisions
• Maintain accurate entity level reporting across locations, concepts, and related entities

Cash flow and expense management

• Monitor cash activity and support cash flow visibility
• Review vendor payments, expenses, purchasing activity, and credit card transactions
• Help tighten controls around spend, approvals, and documentation
• Support banking, credit card, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Help ownership understand upcoming cash needs, payment timing, and financial priorities

Financial analysis and business support

• Analyze sales, labor, food cost, waste, inventory, margins, and entity level performance
• Partner with operations to identify opportunities to improve profitability
• Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, and variance analysis
• Build simple financial models, reports, and dashboards as needed
• Translate financial information into practical insights for ownership and operators

Payroll, vendors, and outside partners

• Coordinate with tax partners, and outside accounting resources
• Support payroll review, labor reporting, and related reconciliations
• Maintain vendor records, payment schedules, and required documentation
• Help organize information for tax, audit, lending, or investor needs
• Follow up quickly and professionally with vendors, partners, and internal stakeholders

Growth readiness

• Build accounting and finance rhythms that can scale with the brand
• Improve visibility into cash, profitability, labor, inventory, and cost trends
• Support system improvements, reporting enhancements, and financial process upgrades
• Help create simple dashboards, scorecards, and tools that leaders can actually use
• Bring discipline to the numbers without overcomplicating the business

What success looks like in the first 90 days

• You understand the current financial picture and identify the biggest accounting and reporting priorities
• You strengthen the close process, reconciliations, reporting cadence, and financial controls
• You create clearer visibility into cash, payables, receivables, payroll, sales, labor, food cost, and entity level performance
• You bring better organization to AP, AR, vendor records, account schedules, and entity level reporting
• You build trust with ownership by being accurate, responsive, and practical
• You help the business make better decisions with cleaner numbers and clearer financial insight

Must have

• Strong accounting experience in a growing business environment
• Experience working with multiple entities, locations, departments, or business units
• Ability to own AP, AR, reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and month end close
• Comfort managing high volume accounting details without losing accuracy
• Strong understanding of P and L, balance sheet, cash flow, and basic financial controls
• Ability to support both transactional accounting and higher level financial analysis
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to keep multiple entities clean and current
• Practical, business minded approach to accounting and finance
• Comfort working directly with ownership, operations, vendors, and outside partners
• Ability to explain financial information clearly to non finance leaders
• Multi entity accounting experience
• Restaurant, bakery, food service, retail, hospitality, or multi unit experience
• Experience with intercompany transactions, allocations, and entity level reporting
• QuickBooks, NetSuite, Restaurant365, MarginEdge, Toast, Square, Bill.com, Ramp, or similar
• Budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, or financial modeling experience
• Experience working with outside CPA firms, payroll providers, lenders, or investors

This is a confidential retained search. We will share full details, including the organization’s structure, growth plans, and current financial setup, with qualified candidates during the process. All inquiries will be handled discreetly.