Rhubarb Hospitality Collections is looking for a Head of Finance to join our team.  

The ideal candidate for this position will have significant financial operations experience in food, beverage, and/or in the hospitality industry, and will be a strong self-starter, a creative thinker, and capable of excellent analysis. Outstanding capabilities in development, tracking, and analysis of KPIs, of cash flow forecasting, and multi-unit daily performance dashboards are essential for this role.

General duties:

• Lead the company’s financial team and infrastructure to drive accuracy, consistency, and regularity of all financial accounting, reporting, and forecasting processes
• Provide timely, accurate, and insightful analysis of financial statements, annual budgets, financial trends, and ongoing forecasts to the owners and leadership team
• Ensure the company meets or exceeds its financial targets by improving financial reporting and by monitoring financial metrics on a continual basis
• Manage 3 different LLC’s and report out to UK corporate office
• Act as liaison between UK team and US based operations on all things finance

Finance and accounting:

• Oversee accounting/bookkeeping team
• Oversee AR/AP processes across all sales channels and company units
• Actively manage company cash flow and develop short- and long-term cash forecasts
• Develop, implement, and track company-wide capital and operating budgets
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual company financial statements and lead regularly scheduled financial review meetings
• Oversee all accounting work and set up internal and external accounting audits
• Provide strategic financial planning advice to ownership for long-term growth
• Establish internal work processes for financial department and continually monitor performance
• Maintain investor reporting requirements
• Develop internal P&L fluency and responsiveness with business managers
• Monitor lease compliance and maintain monthly percentage rent reporting requirements
• Develop KPI categories, tracking mechanisms, regular check-ins, and action plans with department heads and store leaders
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, including account reconciliations and key control activities
• Ensure compliance with taxes, accounting standards, regulations, and internal financial controls

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in accounting/business/finance
• CPA preferred but not required
• Food and Beverage and hospitality experience a must