Founding Restaurant Bookkeeper & FinOps Builder (Hybrid)

WinsAbove; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is hiring its first Bookkeeper on the Financial Management team. You will own end-to-end bookkeeping for a portfolio of pilot restaurant customers, from chart of accounts setup to monthly close and clean financial statements.

You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with product and engineering to shape the service and tooling for scalable bookkeeping at Toast. This is a founding role requiring comfort with ambiguity, exacting attention to detail, and a passion for defining processes rather than

Qualifications

• 5+ years bookkeeping with restaurant or hospitality clients.
• Deep knowledge of restaurant accounting mechanics (COGS, prime cost, tip reporting).
• Fluency with modern bookkeeping software and appetite for new tools.
• Experience building a process or practice from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end bookkeeping for pilot restaurant customers, incl. chart of accounts setup, monthly close, reconciliations, and financial statements.
• Be Toast’s in-house expert on restaurant accounting, including prime cost, COGS, labor, tips, and multi-unit consolidation.
• Translate client workflows into product requirements; participate in roadmap discussions and product decisions.
• Design and document SOPs, controls, and QA processes for a new bookkeeping function.
• Collaborate with restaurant operators to set expectations and deliver a trusted service.
• Define future hiring needs, tooling choices, and where automation should replace judgment.
• Balance hands-on bookkeeping with higher-leverage building work as priorities shift.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Restaurant accounting

Client management

Attention to detail

Communication

Tools

Toast POS

Restaurant accounting software

Job description

Toast is hiring its first Bookkeeper on the Financial Management team. You will own end-to-end bookkeeping for a portfolio of pilot restaurant customers, from chart of accounts setup to monthly close and clean financial statements.

You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with product and engineering to shape the service and tooling for scalable bookkeeping at Toast. This is a founding role requiring comfort with ambiguity, exacting attention to detail, and a passion for defining processes rather than