Senior Finance Leader — Craft Beverage & Hospitality

Barrel One Collective; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barrel One Collective is seeking an experienced Senior Controller to lead financial reporting and strategic finance across craft beverage, hospitality, and manufacturing operations in the Boston area.

You will partner with executive leadership and operational teams to ensure strong controls, accurate reporting, and long-term financial health while guiding budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management. This hands-on role requires cross-functional collaboration and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 5–7+ years of progressive accounting or finance leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and internal controls.
• Experience managing audits, tax coordination, and external financial relationships.
• Advanced Excel and financial systems knowledge.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and present monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Analyze financial performance, including budget-to-actual reporting and operational variance analysis.
• Support leadership decision-making through accurate financial insights and reporting.
• Assist in long-range planning, forecasting, budgeting, and cash flow management.
• Oversee company liquidity reporting and banking relationships.
• Partner with department leaders across hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and operations.
• Help identify operational efficiencies, cost-saving opportunities, and process improvements.
• Develop and monitor departmental budgets and financial performance metrics.
• Support strategic growth initiatives, capital projects, and operational planning.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and internal financial controls.
• Manage relationships with external auditors, tax partners, banking institutions, and insurance providers.
• Oversee tax planning support, audit preparation, and employee benefit audit coordination.
• Ensure compliance with insurance coverage requirements including liability, workers compensation, and cyber security policies.
• Review contracts and agreements from a financial and risk-management perspective.
• Oversee and optimize ERP and financial reporting systems.
• Support process automation, reporting improvements, and operational system integration.
• Utilize ERP/MRP systems to improve inventory, cost accounting, and financial visibility.
• Experience with Deacom ERP or similar manufacturing ERP systems strongly preferred.
• Supervise and mentor accounting staff.
• Help build a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented finance culture.
• Improve workflows, reporting timelines, and cross-functional communication.
• Lead with professionalism, urgency, accuracy, and adaptability.

Skills

Financial leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Advanced Excel

Communication & leadership

Multi-priority management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA or CPA-track (preferred)

Tools

Deacom ERP

SAP

NetSuite

Oracle

Job description

Barrel One Collective is seeking an experienced Senior Controller to lead financial reporting and strategic finance across craft beverage, hospitality, and manufacturing operations in the Boston area.

You will partner with executive leadership and operational teams to ensure strong controls, accurate reporting, and long-term financial health while guiding budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management. This hands-on role requires cross-functional collaboration and process improvements.