Job Details

Senior Accountant
Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Reports to: Controller

Employment Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Pay Range: $90,000 – $110,000 annually

About Global Gourmet Catering (GGC)
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, we proudly serve industry leaders Fortune 500 across premier venues such as the War Memorial Opera House, Mountain Winery, and Outside Lands.

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 Accountant to join our finance team. The ideal candidate must bring direct experience in month-end close, job costing, inventory accounting, and payroll posting, along with a strong working knowledge of financial processes in hospitality, catering, or event-driven environments. This role is essential to maintaining financial accuracy, supporting operational efficiency, and ensuring compliance across a complex and service-oriented business model.

The Senior Accountant will take ownership of key 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 can contribute to continuous process improvement and financial insight.

Key Responsibilities
Month-End Close and Financial Reporting

• Lead the month-end close process, including journal entries and account reconciliations, ensuring all revenue and expense accounts are accurate by department and event type
• Prepare and analyze monthly balance sheet reconciliations, identifying and resolving discrepancies in areas such as prepaid expenses and vendor billing
• 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

Sales Tax and Compliance

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

Costing, Payroll, and Inventory

• Conduct job costing analysis and reporting by allocating event-specific costs across labor, rentals, ingredients, and other expense categories to evaluate profitability
• Post and analyze payroll entries, accurately allocating labor costs by department (e.g., Kitchen, Events, Logistics) 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 coordinating with the Controller and migrating financial data into platforms such as QuickBooks Online
• Identify and implement process improvements to streamline financial workflows, including invoice approvals, vendor payments, and reporting accuracy through tools like Ottimate
• Aggregate and synthesize data across payroll, purchasing, and event costs to generate reports that support department-level forecasting and operational decision-making

Budgeting, Forecasting, and Cash Management

• 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
Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business with an accounting concentration (in progress acceptable)
• Minimum 6 years of accounting experience, with at least 3 years in a Senior Accountant or similar role
• Experience in payroll posting and labor cost analysis
• Strong job costing and inventory accounting knowledge
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and large dataset analysis
• Proficiency in Google Workspace tools (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.)
• Experience with QuickBooks Online, Paycom, and Ottimate
• Highly organized and responsive, with a collaborative and service-oriented mindset

Preferred

• Experience in the restaurant, catering, or hospitality industry
• Experience with process improvements, system conversions, or implementation projects
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, changing environment