Director of Accounting
Company: RDMS Group / RDMS LLC
Reports To: Partners / Owners
Oversees: Accounting Supervisors and staff across Accounts Payable, Payroll, and General Ledger / Senior Accounting
About RDMS
RDMS Group is a hospitality-focused outsourced accounting and consulting firm serving restaurants, bars, breweries, and other hospitality businesses. We provide full-service accounting, outsourced CFO support, Restaurant365 support, Toast POS expertise, and operational consulting to help clients improve financial visibility, strengthen systems, and operate more profitably. Our team functions as a fully outsourced back-office partner, helping clients keep accounting timely, reconciled, accurate, and useful for decision-making.
Position Overview
RDMS Group is seeking a Director of Accounting to lead and strengthen our accounting team across Accounts Payable, Payroll, and General Ledger / Senior Accounting.
This is the senior accounting leadership role beneath the partners/owners. The Director of Accounting will be responsible for ensuring client accounting work is completed accurately, consistently, and on time while developing the accounting team, improving workflows, managing workload capacity, overseeing period-end close, and serving as the final escalation point for complex accounting issues.
This is not a traditional corporate accounting role focused only on internal financial reporting. It is a hands-on accounting leadership role within a client-service environment. The ideal candidate will be a strong technical accountant, an effective team leader, and a practical operator who is comfortable both building scalable processes and stepping into complex accounting work when needed.
Key ResponsibilitiesAccounting Leadership
- Lead accounting operations across A/P, Payroll, and General Ledger / Senior Accounting.
- Ensure client work is completed accurately, consistently, and within established deadlines.
- Manage workload allocation across accounting staff based on capacity, skill level, client needs, and partner-directed budgets.
- Monitor departmental workflow, identify bottlenecks, and resolve issues affecting service delivery.
- Serve as the senior accounting escalation point for complex client accounting matters.
- Partner with leadership on staffing needs, departmental growth, client service quality, and operational priorities.
Supervisor Oversight and Team Development
- Manage and support Accounting Supervisors responsible for workflow quality, checklist compliance, technical review, audit procedures, and staff support.
- Use supervisor reporting, audit findings, workflow metrics, and recurring trends to evaluate staff performance and departmental effectiveness.
- Coach, develop, and hold accounting team members accountable.
- Identify training needs and create targeted development plans to improve staff accuracy, efficiency, judgment, and independence.
- Support hiring, onboarding, promotion planning, performance management, and termination decisions.
- Build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, ownership, and operational excellence.
Period-End Close and Client Reporting
- Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes across the client portfolio.
- Ensure close activities are completed in the proper sequence and within established timelines.
- Coordinate work across A/P, Payroll, and General Ledger functions to support accurate and timely reporting.
- Monitor close progress, resolve roadblocks, and ensure accounting teams maintain consistent close discipline.
- Ensure client reports are reviewed, finalized, and delivered timely and accurately.
Quality Control and Technical Review
- Perform final or selected reviews of financial statements, close packages, reconciliations, and client deliverables.
- Review financial statements for VIP, complex, high-risk, and newly onboarded clients.
- Establish and manage a rotating quality-control review process across the client portfolio.
- Analyze recurring errors and determine whether root causes relate to training needs, supervisor process gaps, workflow deficiencies, client complexity, or system issues.
- Implement corrective action plans and process improvements to strengthen quality and consistency.
- Step into complex accounting matters when needed, including difficult reconciliations, unusual accounting treatments, payroll allocations, multi-entity issues, or urgent close support.
Process Improvement and Scalability
- Develop and refine standardized accounting procedures, checklists, review processes, and workflow controls.
- Improve accounting workflows to reduce rework, missed steps, delays, and avoidable errors.
- Support implementation of new technology, automation, dashboards, and workflow tools.
- Strengthen scalable quality assurance systems across A/P, Payroll, and General Ledger.
- Help increase staff capacity through better training, clearer procedures, and more efficient workflows.
- Support efficient onboarding of new clients into RDMS accounting workflows and systems, including Restaurant365 where applicable.
Ideal Candidate Background
Strong candidates may come from backgrounds such as:
- Restaurant Group Controller
- Director of Accounting
- Director of Shared Services Accounting
- Client Accounting Services / Outsourced Accounting Services Leadership
- Accounting leadership within a multi-unit restaurant, hospitality, franchise, retail, or multi-client environment
Required Qualifications
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and financial statement review experience.
- Experience leading accounting teams, workflows, deadlines, and period-end close processes.
- Ability to manage multiple clients, departments, deadlines, and priorities at the same time.
- Strong leadership, communication, coaching, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to identify process issues, recurring errors, capacity concerns, and performance trends.
- Experience developing staff, improving team accountability, and managing performance.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to operate independently while staying aligned with partner direction.
- Comfort working as a hands-on “player-coach” when complex issues or deadlines require direct involvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA preferred, but not required.
- Restaurant finance leadership experience strongly preferred, such as Controller, Director of Finance, Accounting Manager, or similar role within a restaurant organization.
- Multi-unit restaurant, hospitality, franchise, retail, or multi-location accounting experience preferred.
- Restaurant365 experience preferred, but not required.
- Experience with restaurant accounting workflows, including cost of sales, prime cost, inventory, labor, payroll, A/P, reconciliations, and multi-location financial reporting preferred.
- Experience in outsourced accounting, client accounting services, shared services, or other multi-client accounting environments preferred.
- Experience using workflow tools, dashboards, metrics, or quality-control reporting to manage accountability preferred.
Success Profile
The ideal candidate is:
- A proven accounting leader with strong operational discipline.
- Highly organized, process-oriented, and systems-minded.
- Comfortable managing both people and workflows.
- Able to balance accuracy, timeliness, client service, scalability, and profitability.
- Skilled at developing accounting professionals through coaching, training, and structured accountability.
- Strong enough technically to resolve complex accounting issues.
- Practical and hands-on enough to step into the work when needed.
- Focused on building a stronger, more efficient, and more scalable accounting department.
Summary
The Director of Accounting will play a critical role in RDMS’s continued growth by leading accounting operations, strengthening the Supervisor layer, improving client reporting quality, developing staff, managing workload capacity, and creating scalable accounting processes.
This role is best suited for a high-caliber accounting leader who understands both the technical side of accounting and the operational discipline required to lead a growing outsourced accounting firm serving the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Pay: From $125,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Work from home
Application Question(s):
- Describe your experience in managing an accounting team/department including how many employees were on your team.
Education:
Experience:
- Accounting: 10 years (Required)
- Restaurant Accounting/Finance: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote
