Senior Financial Analyst/Accountant

Global Gourmet Catering; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedule

Professional development opportunities

Collaborative team culture

Job summary

A leading catering company in San Francisco is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst/Accountant. The ideal candidate will lead financial reporting, month-end close, and job costing processes. This role demands strong accounting skills, advanced Excel capabilities, and experience in hospitality or event-driven environments. Join us for a hybrid work model that promotes professional growth within a collaborative culture focused on operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of accounting/financial analysis experience, with 3 years at a senior level.
• Proven experience in month-end close, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Hands-on expertise in job costing, inventory accounting, and payroll posting.

Responsibilities

• Ensure GAAP-compliant month-end close with accurate financial reporting.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations and analyze discrepancies.
• Conduct job costing analysis and manage inventory accounting.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Accounting expertise

Financial analysis

Organizational skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

Tools

QuickBooks Online

Paycom

Google Workspace

Job description

Pay range

Global Gourmet Catering provides the following pay range: $110,000.00/yr - $120,000.00/yr.

Company Overview

Global Gourmet Catering is a full-service catering and event production company based in San Francisco. Since 1999, GGC has redefined the culinary landscape with bold, restaurant-quality cuisine, seamless logistics, and immersive event design. As Northern California’s first certified Green Business caterer, Global Gourmet is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders to deliver exceptional service at some of the region’s most prestigious venues and large-scale events.

Our teams span culinary, warehouse, logistics, administrative, and field-based roles across a range of high-profile and high-volume event environments.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands‑on Senior Financial Analyst/Accountant to join our finance team. This role blends advanced accounting expertise with financial analysis to drive accuracy, insight, and operational efficiency across our dynamic, event‑driven business. The ideal candidate brings proven experience in month‑end close, job costing, inventory accounting, and payroll posting, along with a solid working knowledge of financial processes in manufacturing, hospitality, catering, or other service‑oriented environments.

As a Senior Financial Analyst/Accountant, you will own full‑cycle accounting processes with minimal oversight, including reconciliations, financial reporting, and cross‑functional collaboration with Operations, Events, HR, and external vendors. This is a high‑impact opportunity for someone who thrives in fast‑paced settings, brings technical accounting expertise, and contributes to continuous process improvement and financial insight.

Key Responsibilities

Month‑End Close and Financial Reporting

• Ensure GAAP‑compliant month‑end close by applying rigorous cost accounting and accrual accounting principles, including proper recognition of costs, revenues, and liabilities within the correct reporting period, supported by reconciliations and documented assumptions across multiple business units.
• Prepare and analyze monthly balance sheet reconciliations, identifying, researching and resolving discrepancies in areas such as prepaid expenses, accruals, sales tax, and payroll.
• Review general ledger activity to ensure all entries are properly coded, aligned with company policies, and accurately reflect business operations, including expenses related to food, beverage, and venue rentals.
• Prepare month‑end journal entries and account reconciliations for various PL and BS accounts with accuracy and timeliness.
• Prepare various monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting.

Sales Tax and Compliance

• Compile and prepare detailed reports to support monthly and quarterly sales tax filings by reconciling POS sales and invoicing against taxable sales by jurisdiction.
• Maintain up‑to‑date tax rates and ensure the accuracy of compliance reporting across all regulatory obligations.

Revenues, Costing, Payroll, and Inventory

• Follow revenue recognition principles under GAAP ASC606.
• Conduct job costing analysis and reporting by allocating event‑specific costs across labor, rentals, ingredients, and other expense categories.
• Post and analyze payroll entries, accurately allocating labor costs by locations and events and reconciling payroll data from Paycom.
• Manage accounting aspects of inventory and cost reconciliation by collaborating with culinary and warehouse teams to validate physical counts against system reports.

System Management and Process Improvement

• Support system implementations, upgrades, and migrations by assisting with data exports and mapping.
• Identify process pain points and recommend SOP improvements to streamline financial workflows, including invoice approvals, vendor payments, and reporting accuracy.

Budgeting, Forecasting, and Treasury

• Support budgeting and forecasting by building and maintaining tracking models for monthly expenses and comparing actuals to budgeted performance across departments.
• Act as a backup approver for positive pay exceptions, ACH transactions, and wire transfers by validating approvals and ensuring payment accuracy in accordance with internal controls.

Qualifications and Experience

Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (Required).
• 6+ years of progressive accounting and/or financial analysis experience, with at least 3 years at a senior level.
• Hands‑on expertise in month‑end close, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Proven experience with job costing, inventory accounting, and payroll posting in a manufacturing, hospitality, catering, or other event‑driven environment.
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, large‑dataset analysis) and proficiency with Google Workspace.
• Working knowledge of accounting and HR/payroll systems such as QuickBooks Online, Paycom, and Ottimate.
• Highly organized, collaborative, and responsive, with the ability to operate with minimal oversight in a fast‑paced, service‑oriented environment.

Preferred

• Experience in hospitality, CPG, and/or manufacturing companies.
• Experience with process improvements, system conversions, or implementation projects.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, changing environment.
• Candidates should be within a reasonable commuting distance to San Francisco due to the hybrid schedule.

Why Join GGC?

• Hybrid work model with schedule flexibility (3–4 days in‑office, with daily presence during month‑end close).
• High‑impact role with opportunities to enhance financial systems and processes.
• Collaborative, team‑oriented culture focused on professional growth and operational excellence.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Accounting/Auditing and Finance

Industries

Food and Beverage Services, Events Services, and Hospitality

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