Founding Restaurant Bookkeeping Lead

Toast; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is hiring its first Bookkeepers on the Financial Management team to handle the actual books for our earliest restaurant customers while helping to shape the service, tooling, and workflows for scalable bookkeeping at Toast.

You will work on-site in Boston 2 days per week, collaborating closely with product and engineering, defining SOPs and processes that will scale as Toast grows. You’ll be the internal expert on restaurant accounting and high-volume transaction reconciliation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of bookkeeping experience in restaurant or hospitality clients.
• Deep working knowledge of restaurant accounting mechanics: COGS and prime cost, tip reporting, multi-location consolidation, and reconciling high-volume POS data.
• Fluency with modern bookkeeping software and enthusiasm for adopting new tools.
• Experience building a process or practice from scratch.
• Comfort with ambiguity and undefined scope; ability to define a role.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end bookkeeping for a portfolio of pilot restaurant customers: chart of accounts setup, monthly close, bank/POS reconciliations, accruals, and delivery of clean financial statements.
• Serve as Toast's in-house expert on restaurant-specific accounting — prime cost, COGS, labor and tip reporting, multi-unit consolidation, high-volume daily transactions.
• Embed with product and engineering to translate client workflows into product requirements shaping the roadmap.
• Design and document SOPs, controls, and QA processes for a bookkeeping function that is being built from scratch.
• Work directly with restaurant operators to understand their businesses, set expectations, and deliver trusted service.
• Help define what success looks like for this function, including future hiring, tooling, and automation boundaries.
• Move between hands-on bookkeeping and higher-leverage building work as priorities shift.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Restaurant accounting

POS data reconciliation

Communication

Process building

Job description

Toast is hiring its first Bookkeepers on the Financial Management team to handle the actual books for our earliest restaurant customers while helping to shape the service, tooling, and workflows for scalable bookkeeping at Toast.

You will work on-site in Boston 2 days per week, collaborating closely with product and engineering, defining SOPs and processes that will scale as Toast grows. You’ll be the internal expert on restaurant accounting and high-volume transaction reconciliation.