Accounting and Implementation Manager

Aprio•Conyers, GA

24d

About The Position

Aprio is seeking an Accounting and Implementation Manager to lead restaurant, franchise, and hospitality platform implementations, re-implementations, and optimization initiatives that connect accounting, operations, and technology. The role partners with clients and Aprio’s accounting team to translate accounting and operational needs into practical configurations, integrations, workflows, controls, reporting structures, and training across platforms including Restaurant365 (R365), QuickBooks Online (QBO), Sage Intacct, and other industry-specific tools. The manager serves as a technology resource across the practice, driving implementation quality, team capability, and a repeatable, scalable delivery model. The position also owns accounting and financial reporting for assigned clients, leads close activities, configures restaurant operations workflows, coordinates integrations and data migration, and develops platform training and documentation. The work is intended to support reliable accounting, disciplined operations, strong controls, sustainable client growth, and efficient service delivery.

Requirements

Experience supporting restaurant, franchise, hospitality, multi-entity, or multi-location businesses.
Background in outsourced accounting, CAS, public accounting, or another multi-client professional-services environment.
Experience improving accounting, reporting, analytics, or client-service workflows through technology or automation.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business, Hospitality Management, Project Management, or a related field.
Five or more years of ERP implementation, accounting technology, restaurant systems or operations, systems consulting, or related professional-services experience.
Hands-on experience with Restaurant365 (R365), QuickBooks Online (QBO), Sage Intacct, or a comparable restaurant, franchise, or hospitality platform in implementation, administration, optimization, or support.
Working knowledge of close, reporting, banking, daily sales, AP, inventory, purchasing, item mapping, units of measure, recipes, POS/PMIX, payroll, labor scheduling, and controls.
Strong client-facing project leadership, facilitation, documentation, problem-solving, change-management, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

R365 certification, Sage Intacct certification, or advanced experience across accounting and operations modules.
Restaurant, franchise, hospitality, multi-entity, or multi-location experience, including POS/PMIX, inventory, recipe costing, labor, AP, payroll, banking, and reporting tools.
Experience across multiple restaurant, franchise, or hospitality platforms such as QBO, Sage Intacct, or other industry-specific ERP and accounting solutions.
Experience in outsourced accounting, CAS, ERP consulting, restaurant technology, culinary systems, or scalable implementation and governance design.

Responsibilities

Lead implementations and re-implementations of restaurant, franchise, and hospitality platforms from discovery and design through configuration, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
Translate client accounting and operational needs into implementation plans, system designs, and success criteria.
Configure and validate entities, locations, calendars, charts of accounts, reporting, user roles, approvals, banking, daily sales, AP, payroll, and inventory workflows.
Guide data readiness, testing, decisions, and go-live activities, and help resolve issues affecting service delivery, close, and reporting.
Own accounting and financial reporting for assigned clients, including agreed-upon deliverables, deadlines, responsibilities, and scope.
Lead month-end and year-end close, using technology and automation where appropriate to improve consistency, identify exceptions, and accelerate routine work.
Prepare and review complete, accurate, well-supported workpapers documenting account activity, reconciliations, conclusions, and the audit trail for financial reporting.
Build and govern inventory items, categories, locations, count practices, costing methods, and location availability.
Review and map vendor items; configure units of measure, pack sizes, conversions, and yields for purchasing, invoicing, and inventory valuation.
Build recipes, sub-recipes, menu items, and theoretical costs; map POS and PMIX data to recipes and resolve exceptions affecting usage and margin reporting.
Configure labor scheduling, job codes, forecasting inputs, and targets; establish best-practice routines for counts, waste, transfers, receiving, recipe maintenance, and exception review.
Evaluate platform environments with accounting and operations teams to identify configuration gaps, workarounds, control weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.
Simplify and standardize workflows, templates, naming conventions, approvals, dashboards, and recurring processes across entities and locations.
Prioritize improvements by impact, effort, risk, and readiness, and help teams adopt sustainable platform governance.
Coordinate POS, banking, invoice capture, payments, payroll, sales, inventory, and other integrations across applicable platforms.
Lead mapping, migration, validation, exception resolution, and testing to ensure accounting teams can rely on complete, accurate data.
Build reporting structures, dashboards, and role-based access to support timely, decision-ready client information.
Develop and deliver role-based platform training for the accounting team, client administrators, and users across accounting, AP, banking, sales, inventory, purchasing, recipes, labor, payroll, and close.
Coach users on best practices for counts, item and unit-of-measure governance, recipes, POS/PMIX exceptions, labor scheduling, and data-quality reviews.
Create documentation, job aids, workflows, controls, governance standards, and troubleshooting guidance for daily client service.
Provide post-go-live support, address recurring pain points, and recommend targeted training or system improvements.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance beginning on the first day of employment.
Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account.
401(k) with profit sharing.
Nine or more holidays and discretionary time off.
Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with a cash incentive upon completion.
Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group, and individual performance.
Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales.
Wellness program.
Flexible working environment, including remote and hybrid options.
Competitive compensation and industry-leading benefits.
Professional growth and continuous learning opportunities.