Restaurant Accounting Lead

Rozgoo; 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

About This Role

We're hiring the first Bookkeepers on our Financial Management team - a founding, hands-on role at the intersection of real client bookkeeping and 0-to-1 product building. You won't be joining an established practice with a mature playbook; you'll be writing it. You'll do the actual books for our earliest restaurant customers while working shoulder-to-shoulder with product and engineering to shape the service, tooling, and workflows that will define how Toast delivers bookkeeping at scale.

This role is for someone who genuinely likes restaurant bookkeeping - the prime cost, the tip reporting, the multi-location chaos - and who also gets energy from questioning industry norms and building something new rather than maintaining something established. Ambiguity here isn't a bug; for the first year or two, it's the job.

If you're the kind of person who reads a messy set of restaurant books and sees an interesting puzzle - and who'd rather build the recipe than follow one - we'd love to hear from you.

*Location Requirement:

This position requires 2 days per week on-site at our Boston office (located in the Seaport).

A day in the life (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 transaction reconciliation, and multi-jurisdiction sales tax.
• Embed directly with product and engineering, translating real client workflows and pain points into product requirements that shape our roadmap - you'll be in the room when we decide what to build next, not just told what shipped.
• Design and document the SOPs, controls, and QA processes a bookkeeping function needs to run reliably - since none of it exists yet, you'll build the foundation others will scale on.
• Work directly with restaurant operators to understand their businesses, set expectations, and deliver a service that earns their trust.
• Help define what "great" looks like for this function as it grows, including future hiring needs, tooling choices, and where automation should (and shouldn't) replace judgment.
• Move fluidly between hands-on bookkeeping wo