Founding Restaurant Bookkeeping Lead & Process Builder

toast; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is seeking the first Bookkeeper on their Financial Management team to own end-to-end restaurant bookkeeping for pilot customers. You’ll work closely with product and engineering to shape the service, tooling, and workflows for scalable bookkeeping at Toast.

The role emphasizes solving real-world restaurant accounting challenges, from prime cost to tip reporting, as the team builds a foundation for future growth and automation.

Qualifications

• Experience with restaurant bookkeeping basics and accounting fundamentals.
• Ability to reconcile bank and POS data for multiple locations.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end bookkeeping for a portfolio of pilot restaurant customers, including chart of accounts setup and monthly close.
• Perform bank and POS reconciliations, accruals, and deliver clean financial statements.
• Serve as in-house expert on restaurant-specific accounting: prime cost, COGS, labor, and tip reporting.
• Embed with product and engineering to translate client workflows into product requirements.
• Design and document SOPs, controls, and QA processes for a scalable bookkeeping function.
• Collaborate with restaurant operators to understand their business and set expectations.

Skills

Restaurant bookkeeping

CoGS accounting

Tip reporting

Multi-location consolidation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

POS systems

Job description

Toast is seeking the first Bookkeeper on their Financial Management team to own end-to-end restaurant bookkeeping for pilot customers. You’ll work closely with product and engineering to shape the service, tooling, and workflows for scalable bookkeeping at Toast.

The role emphasizes solving real-world restaurant accounting challenges, from prime cost to tip reporting, as the team builds a foundation for future growth and automation.