Own the close, and the team behind it.

The company

Meet Garde

Garde is the financial backbone for independent restaurants: accounting and bookkeeping, with a full software suite for inventory, payroll, scheduling and reporting, all in one place.

We gather and centralise a restaurant's data, clean it up and build their financials, analyse those financials to uncover opportunities, then give them the workflows and software to act on it.

Restaurants sign with us and expect a clean first P&L inside 45 days, then an on-time seven-day close every month after that, with AP, AR, payroll, tax filings, the balance sheet and cash all handled. You are the person who makes that true.

What you'll do

• Close the books every month, on time. POS sales journals, delivery platform payouts, inventory and COGS entries, accruals and prepaids, intercompany for multi-unit groups, then the P&L out the door on schedule. You will run many closes at once and know which one is at risk before the deadline.
• Run AP and AR. Bills arrive by invoice scan and AI coding. You approve them, run the weekly payment run, chase vendor credits and keep vendor statements reconciled. On the AR side you invoice catering and house accounts, and collect and apply third-party payouts.
• Run payroll for the clients on Garde's payroll, review tips and tip credits, file payroll tax and book it to the ledger.
• Own the balance sheet. Every account tied out monthly: bank and cards, loans, deposits, gift cards, sales tax payable, tips payable, intercompany. No plug accounts.
• Manage cash. Our AI teammates keep a weekly cash position and a 13-week forecast for every client. You review them, set payment timing against them, and flag the shortfall before the owner feels it.
• Turn messy data into a clean ledger. Bank feeds with three names for the same vendor, a POS export that does not tie to the deposit, invoices photographed on a line cook's phone. You code it, tie it out and fix the root cause, not the symptom.
• Understand how every dollar moves through each restaurant, cash, tips, comps, vendor payments and owner draws, and introduce procedures that give proper control and clean data without adding work to a busy kitchen.
• Build and clean up historical books, then migrate clients off whatever they used before without leaving a gap.
• Audit before you publish. Run our reconciliation, sales and COGS audits, fix what they find, and do not publish a P&L until it clears the bar.
• Prepare year-end packages, 1099s and sales tax filings, and keep the books in a state where tax season is a formality.
• Explain the numbers. Every close goes out with a written brief our AI teammates draft and you sign off on. Get on the call with the owners and GMs who need it. Most have never had numbers they could trust.
• Run a tight ship. You start with 40 locations and grow the book as the AI first pass takes more of the work. The model we are building toward is one accountant per 200.

Who fits this role

• CPA with an active licence, or all four exam parts passed and licensure within twelve months.
• Four or more years in restaurant or hospitality accounting, or public accounting with restaurant clients.
• Expert in QuickBooks Online: chart of accounts design, classes and locations, bank rules, bill pay, journal entries, month-end close. You have run full-charge books, not just studied them.
• Have processed payroll for tipped staff, on Gusto, ADP or Toast Payroll, and filed New York sales tax yourself.
• Comfortable in spreadsheets with messy data: thousands of rows, inconsistent units, three names for the same vendor.
• Organised enough to close 40 locations a month from day one and grow from there without dropping one, and ready to carry other accountants with you as the book grows.
• Personable and reliable. You will spend hours with owners and GMs who have never read a P&L, on video and sometimes in person, and they need to be able to count on you.
• You set tight, responsible deadlines for the documents you need, and you empathise with busy restaurants so they can keep up.
• Curious about AI tooling and ready to learn. Our team works with AI agents every day, from Claude in the terminal to automated audits. You do not need to code.
• Able to travel to client sites in the metro area a few days a quarter.

Nice to have

• Restaurant365, MarginEdge, Plate IQ or similar restaurant back-office experience, on either side of a migration.
• Multi-unit restaurant group or commissary back-office experience: intercompany, allocations, consolidated reporting.
• Small-business tax preparation (1120-S, 1065, Schedule C).
• Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish or Korean, given who our clients are.

How we hire

1. A five-minute application with your resume, then a two-minute Loom: who you are, one set of books you cleaned up, and why Garde. Applications without a Loom are not considered.
2. A screening call.
3. A final call with the founder.
4. An offer.

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Application

The application with your resume, then a two-minute Loom.