Job Description for Senior Accounting Manager at Buyers Edge Platform - Remotely based
The Senior Accounting Manager oversees accounting operations across multiple clients and teams, ensuring high-quality financial reporting, operational efficiency, and alignment with Dine standards.
This role operates with high ownership and operational independence within established standards and frameworks, requiring minimal reliance on Directors and VPs for day-to-day execution. The Senior Accounting Manager is expected to develop a deep understanding of both Dine standards and client-specific environments, identify where deviations exist, and propose how to manage or improve them.
This position is accountable for outcomes, team performance, and how work is executed at scale, serving as a key driver of consistency, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
This role is remote in the US. We are unable to offer work sponsorship for this role.
Who we are:
Buyers Edge Platform stands at the forefront of revolutionizing the foodservice industry through technology, purchasing power and partnerships. We are dedicated to empowering stakeholders across the entire foodservice ecosystem (operators, distributors, manufacturers) with efficiency and unprecedented visibility. With a diverse portfolio of over a dozen brands, our mission is clear: to reduce costs, streamline the foodservice supply chain, and propel the industry from manual to automated.
Today, we are one of the largest players in foodservice, with over 200K operator locations across North America and over $50 billion of aggregated spend volume. Our commitment to foodservice excellence is proven in four distinct areas of value: Digital Procurement Network, Fresh Solutions, Supply Chain Management, and Software. Buyers Edge Platform is not just a provider – we are a strategic partner on the journey towards a more efficient, connected, and automated future for the foodservice industry.
Your impact:
- Serve as the senior accounting lead across multiple clients, ensuring all deliverables are consistently accurate, timely, and aligned with expectations.
- Develop a deep understanding of client operations, transaction flows, financial drivers, and reporting structures.
- Identify and manage deviations between client processes and Dine standards, determining appropriate solutions.
- Lead client discussions to present financials, explain variances, and provide clear, actionable insights.
- Advise clients on process improvements, controls, and best practices
- Oversee all aspects of the accounting cycle and close process across teams, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance by driving strong team execution and process discipline. Perform high-level review of financial statements, reconciliations, and complex accounting areas, focusing on anomalies and risks versus routine error correction.
- Identify risks, irregularities, and inefficiencies, and take action to resolve or escalate them as appropriate.
- Ensure financial outputs are consistently accurate by developing team capability, strengthening processes, and reducing upstream errors.
- Independently identify issues, develop solutions, and drive resolution with minimal escalation.
- Serve as a trusted escalation point for Accounting Managers, clients, and internal teams.
- Operate confidently within established standards and client environments, ensuring consistent execution across assigned clients while escalating decisions that impact broader processes, standards, or high-risk areas. Translate complex challenges into clear, actionable plans.
- Lead, mentor, and develop Accounting Managers and offshore teams.
- Ensure accountability for quality, timelines, and ownership across the team.
- Strengthen team capability in technical accounting, problem-solving, and client management.
- Ensure effective delegation and alignment of responsibilities on assigned clients.
- Evaluate workflows and team performance, including hours vs. budget, to identify inefficiencies.
- Drive improvements that reduce rework, streamline processes, and free up time.
- Ensure processes are scalable, consistent, and aligned with company standards.
- Identify systemic issues across clients, teams, and processes.
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement long-term solutions.
- Ensure improvements are sustained and issues do not recur.
- Promote a culture of proactively raising and resolving issues.
- Maintain deep expertise in Dine systems, tools, workflows, and accounting standards.
- Ensure consistency across clients while managing necessary deviations.
- Contribute to broader operational improvements and company initiatives.
- Support scalable growth by improving clarity, reducing friction, and enhancing processes.
- Operate independently with minimal need for VP/Director involvement
- Develop deep, connected understanding of clients, systems, and financial data
- Proactively solve and prevent issues across operations
- Continuously improve how work is performed to support scalability and growth
About you:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA preferred but not required.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least two years in a supervisory or management role.
- Advanced accounting expertise, including full-cycle oversight, complex reconciliations, and financial statement review with a focus on risk and anomalies.
- Exceptional client management and communication skills, including the ability to present financials, explain insights, and advise on process improvements.
- Demonstrate consistent judgment, ownership, and follow-through to build trust and operate with increasing autonomy.
- Process optimization mindset with the ability to improve workflows, increase efficiency, and support scalable, standardized operations.
- Strong organizational and oversight capabilities, managing multiple clients, teams, and priorities while ensuring consistent, high-quality execution.
- Restaurant365 experience strongly preferred or experience with at least two other ERPs required
- Multi-unit restaurant accounting experience required
Not sure you meet every qualification? Studies show that diverse applicants often hesitate to apply unless they check every box. At Buyers Edge Platform, we value authenticity and inclusion—if you're excited about the role, we encourage you to apply. You might be exactly who we’re looking for!
What's in this for you:
- Great benefits from day one. We offer medical, dental, vision, FSA, company-paid life insurance, and more—plus a 401(k) with company match.
- Grow with us. Enjoy strong training, development, and competitive pay.
- Work-life balance. Our flexible PTO policy lets you take time when you need it—no accrual required.
We welcome all.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.
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