Staff Accountant

Company Overview

Luke’s Lobster is a renowned seafood brand and a leading national restaurant group with nearly 30 locations, with both fast-casual and full-service lobster roll restaurants. We also operate our own seafood processing facility in Saco, Maine, ensuring our 'Shacks' provide our guests the highest quality, best tasting seafood. Further, we produce branded seafood grocery products as part of our CPG business at grocery stores and other outlets around the country.

Overview

We are seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented Staff Accountant to join our growing company. As a key member of the Finance team, the Staff Accountant supports accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and effective partnerships across our Operations teams. This role offers high visibility to senior leadership and the opportunity to improve, streamline, and implement financial processes across the company.

Key Responsibilities Monthly & Weekly Recurring Responsibilities

• Book the weekly payroll journal entry and ensure accuracy across locations.
• Reconcile receivables from third-party delivery platforms.
• Reconcile undeposited funds and investigate variances.
• Manage the AP and AR approval and data entry workflows to ensure timely processing.
• Accrue expenses as needed in accordance with GAAP.
• Assist the Controller with maintaining and renewing company licenses, permits, and regulatory filings.
• Act as a business partner for General Managers, ensuring financial information is timely, accurate, and actionable.

Operations Partnership

As part of a hospitality organization, the Finance team’s “customers” are our Operations teams. The Staff Accountant will:

• Address General Manager inquiries and provide coaching on scalable financial best practices.
• Serve as a problem-solving partner for operations teams and external vendors.
• Support development of financial literacy across the team to drive stronger P&L performance.
• Communicate issues proactively and offer solutions that support operational efficiency.

Month-End Close & Reporting

• Assist with the monthly close process by preparing journal entries, booking fees, amortizing expenses, and archiving bank statements.
• Perform detailed analysis of general ledger accounts and investigate variances.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations with a high degree of accuracy.
• Collaborate with the Controller on preparation of monthly financial statements and management reporting packages.
• Support internal and external requests, including year-end audit and tax filing requirements.

Continuous Improvement & Special Projects

• Recommend and implement process improvements to drive accounting efficiency and accuracy.
• Participate in system enhancements, workflow redesigns, or automation opportunities.
• Assist with ad hoc reporting, analysis, and special projects as requested by senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Required 3–5 years of accounting experience.
• Solid understanding of GAAP and standard accounting processes.
• Extremely organized, detail-oriented, and proactive, with exceptional follow-through and communication skills.
• Experience in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Intermediate Excel skills required; ability to work with pivot tables, lookups, and basic analytics.
• Experience using Restaurant365, preferred.
• Experience with Power BI or Power Automate, preferred.
• Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to be on-site in Maine full-time.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a collaborative, highly communicative professional who can clearly explain financial concepts to non-finance teammates. They bring an approachable, customer service–oriented mindset, recognizing that Finance plays a critical role in enabling informed, effective decision-making across the organization. They are intellectually curious, eager to understand how the business operates, and motivated to dig into details to solve problems. They value continuous improvement and naturally look for opportunities to streamline workflows, strengthen controls, and help build scalable processes. This person enjoys working across teams and readily steps in to assist wherever needed. They proactively recommend improvements, share knowledge, and serve as a reliable partner to both Finance and Operations. Ultimately, they balance accuracy and professionalism with empathy, clarity, and a genuine desire to help the business succeed.

Compensation And Benefits

• Salary commensurate with experience: expected in the range of $70,000-$80,000
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance on a national PPO network with company premium contributions
• Access to an Health Savings Account (HSA) and supplemental insurance policies (Accident Insurance and Hospital Indemnity Insurance)
• Low-asset fee 401k retirement plan after one month
• Mobile phone stipend program
• Paid parental leave

About Luke’s Lobster

Luke’s Lobster was born out of the dream of Maine native and third-generation lobsterman Luke Holden to bring the quality lobster rolls of his youth to the big city. After meeting business partner Ben Conniff on Craigslist, the two twenty-somethings opened their first lobster shack in a 250 square foot space in NYC’s East Village in October 2009. Now over 15 years later, Luke’s Lobster brings traceable, sustainable seafood to guests across the globe. Our vision is to be the world’s most trusted seafood brand. Our mission is to serve the best seafood because we care for it obsessively from the dock to you, and because we're devoted to serving the whole community of people it touches. We work directly with fishermen to hand pick the best seafood, bring it straight to our own seafood company in Saco, ME and then ship directly to our shacks, grocery partners, and consumers. Cutting out the middleman means better tasting seafood for you to enjoy and a fairer price for our fishermen. At Luke’s, our company culture comes first. We are proud and passionate about the work environment we have fostered and are excited to see it continue to grow. We value diversity, creativity, transparency, and open communication from all levels. In 2018, we furthered our commitment to sustainability and socially conscious business practices by becoming a certified B Corporation®, reflecting Luke’s Lobster’s deep devotion to our communities, family of teammates, and the environment. Please visit www.lukeslobster.com for more information.

EEO Statement

Luke's Lobster provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to any status, including but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Luke's Lobster complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Luke's Lobster expressly prohibits all forms of workplace harassment. Improper interference with the ability of Luke's Lobster employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge. Essential job functions include standing for sustained periods of time, lifting objects from lower to higher positions, ascending or descending stairs or ladders, and bending, crouching, and reaching to low and high places. Luke's Lobster is a participant of E-Verify.