Senior Accountant

About Us

At Pressed Cafe, we believe exceptional food and drink start with quality ingredients and a passion for hospitality. Our all-day menu features Mediterranean-inspired dishes made with fresh, local ingredients, paired with great coffee and fast, friendly service.

Pressed Cafe is an emerging, high-growth premium quick-casual restaurant company with a strong regional presence and exciting expansion plans. With multiple locations today and an aggressive development pipeline, we are building the infrastructure to scale significantly over the next several years.

As a founder-led organization, we remain deeply committed to hospitality, culture, and delivering exceptional guest experiences.

At the heart of everything we do is our mission: Great People, Great Food, Great Coffee.

About the Role

The Senior Accountant is a hands-on owner of the month-end close and a key player in strengthening our accounting foundation as we scale. Reporting to the Controller, this is a full-time, in-person role based at our Home Office in Nashua, New Hampshire.

You will work closely with the Controller on multi-unit reporting, reconciliations and process improvement across our restaurants, commissary and legal entities. You will oversee cash activity, including check runs, bank transfers and account funding, and work across Restaurant365 for our restaurants and NetSuite for the commissary.

This role is a strong fit for someone who likes getting into the details, enjoys building cleaner processes and wants to grow with a company in expansion mode.

What You’ll Do

CASH MANAGEMENT & TREASURY

• Oversee vendor check runs and electronic payments, following established bank fraud prevention procedures.
• Manage bank transfers and account funding across entities in line with company approval controls.
• Monitor bank balances so every account is funded for payroll, payables, rent and loan payments.
• Reconcile operating, savings, credit card and clearing accounts across all banking relationships each month.

MONTH-END CLOSE & RECONCILIATIONS

• Own key pieces of the monthly close, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids and balance sheet reconciliations, delivering accurate results on a consistent timeline.
• Record weekly payroll journal entries and imports, and reconcile payroll, tips payable, payroll reimbursement clearing and benefit liabilities in partnership with the Payroll team.
• Complete intercompany tie-outs between our restaurant entities in Restaurant365 and the commissary in NetSuite, and support consolidations.
• Investigate and resolve reconciling items promptly, documenting support for every balance.

SALES, CASH & REVENUE

• Reconcile daily sales and deposits across every location and sales channel, including in-store, online, catering and delivery.
• Review and approve daily sales summaries.
• Monitor cash over/short and cash on hand, and reinforce cash handling expectations with General Managers and District Managers.
• Invoice house accounts and review accounts receivable aging.

SALES & MEALS TAX

• Prepare Massachusetts meals tax prepayments, monthly meals tax reconciliations and returns, and Massachusetts sales tax filings.
• Prepare New Hampshire meals tax filings.
• Pay personal property tax bills and remit New Hampshire liquor purchases.
• Conduct quarterly vendor W-9 reviews, and support 1099 reporting and annual tax return preparation with our outside tax advisors.

LEASES, RENT & VENDOR PAYMENTS

• Enter rent invoices and process landlord payments, confirming every charge, including rent increases and parking, is paid before its due date.
• Submit monthly and quarterly sales reports to landlords as required by each lease.
• Manage utility, benefits carrier and recurring vendor payments, including autopay setup and confirmation.

FIXED ASSETS & NEW RESTAURANT OPENINGS

• Track construction-in-progress and capital spend, maintain the fixed asset register and record depreciation.
• Set up accounting for each new restaurant, including system location setup, utility and vendor accounts, bank and merchant connections and tax registrations.

RESTAURANT REPORTING, AUDIT & CONTROLS

• Prepare and review location-level P&Ls for every restaurant and the commissary, and flag food cost, labor cost and prime cost variances to Operations.
• Support period-end inventory counts and COGS reconciliation in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Prepare schedules and support for the year-end audit or review.
• Help document and strengthen internal controls, including separation of payment, approval and reconciliation responsibilities.

SYSTEMS, PROCESS & TEAM SUPPORT

• Serve as a key user of Restaurant365 for our restaurants and NetSuite for the commissary, supporting system setup, integrations, reconciliation workflows and reporting.
• Identify manual work and recurring errors, and build cleaner, more scalable processes.
• Review the work of staff accountants and accounting team members, and answer accounting questions from General Managers and field leaders.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis for the Controller and CFO.

What You Bring

• Four to six years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on ownership of month-end close.
• Experience managing check runs, bank fraud prevention tools, bank transfers and cash funding across multiple accounts or entities.
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP, account reconciliations and accrual accounting.
• Experience preparing sales and meals tax filings. Massachusetts and New Hampshire experience preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups and clean reconciliation workbooks.
• Experience with an ERP or mid-market accounting system. Restaurant365 and NetSuite experience strongly preferred. Aloha POS experience is a plus.
• Highly organized and deadline-driven, with a sharp eye for detail and a knack for spotting what doesn't look right.
• Comfortable explaining financial results to non-finance partners, including General Managers and Operations leaders.
• Discretion with confidential financial and employee information.
• Ability to manage heavier workloads during month-end and year-end close.
• A bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent experience.
• Restaurant, hospitality or multi-unit retail accounting experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with multi-entity consolidation across systems preferred.
• Public accounting experience, CPA, or progress toward a CPA is a plus.

HOW YOU WORK

• You own the close. You take responsibility for accurate, on-time results and follow every reconciling item through.
• You see what doesn't fit. You spot the number that looks wrong and find out why.
• You build cleaner processes. You leave every workflow simpler and better documented than you found it.
• You translate the numbers. You help restaurant leaders understand what their results mean and what to do next.
• You grow with us. You thrive in a company in expansion mode and want to help build what comes next.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.