Assistant Controller

Riot Hospitality Group • Scottsdale, AZ

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

Riot Hospitality Group is seeking a results-driven, hands-on Assistant Controller to lead the Accounting function across all of our locations in Arizona, Colorado and Tennessee! The Assistant Controller supports the CFO in running day-to-day accounting for a multi-unit hospitality organization spanning nightclubs, bars, and restaurants across multiple states and legal entities. This is a hands-on role covering the close, balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany transactions, and cash/treasury processes across RHG's brands and locations. It also means supporting, leading and coaching a small team of staff accountants and A/P personnel. This is someone equally comfortable in the general ledger and in front of operations partners.

Requirements

• BS/BA in Accounting or Finance required
• 4-7 years of progressive accounting experience, including exposure to multi-entity or intercompany work.
• Hands-on experience preparing financial statements and ensuring GAAP compliance.
• Experience coaching and leading team members, serving as a go-to resource for questions while still hitting every deadline.
• Proven ability to communicate accounting requirements clearly to operations staff and General Managers, translating financial detail into practical, actionable guidance for non-finance audiences.
• Comfortable being a frequent, approachable point of contact for operations questions, on top of managing core accounting deadlines.
• Experience building balance sheet account reconciliations from scratch, incorporating outside schedules and varied data sources such as lease agreements, insurance payment policies, and other outside systems.
• Working knowledge of applying accounting principles such as ASC 842 and ASC 606 to real-world scenarios.
• Experience with managing tight deadlines for a fiscal close schedule.
• Strong Excel skills: formulas, pivot tables, large datasets.
• Experience with Sage Intacct or a comparable ERP/general ledger system.
• Comfortable working with or learning restaurant/hospitality POS systems.
• Truly likes talking to operations partners and can translate specific accounting requirements into something non finance people can actually use and understand.
• Patient leader who enjoys mentoring people.
• Detail-oriented, but can still move fast enough to hit a tight close schedule.
• Comfortable juggling competing deadlines across multiple entities, brands, and locations at once.
• Good judgment and discretion with sensitive financial and personnel information.

Nice To Haves

• CPA and/or MBA or Master’s degree preferred.
• Restaurant, hospitality, or nightlife industry experience is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Run a tight, well-documented close, for both the monthly calendar and the 13-period fiscal schedules, and hold the team to the deadlines.
• Own intercompany transactions end to end utilizing Sage Intacct.
• Improve balance sheet reconciliations to be more accurate and effective.
• Support monthly corporate allocations, management fees, and intercompany billings: calculations, invoicing, and bank transfers to pay.
• Review journal entries and reconciliations from the accounting team and give real feedback.
• Find and fix the parts of the close that take too long, without cutting corners on accuracy or GAAP compliance.
• Partner with the CFO on monthly reporting packages and variance analysis by location and brand.
• Own weekly bank reconciliations across all accounts, including tip payments and credit card activity with support from the team.
• Support day-to-day treasury functions and flag cash issues before they become a problem.
• Support the team on sales and use tax filings and payments across all locations, keeping documentation audit-ready.
• Must know and understand state sales tax filing and remitting processes.
• Help maintain accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls that protect assets and keep financial data accurate.
• Lead, coach and help develop a small team of staff accountants and A/P personnel.
• Set clear expectations, manage workloads, and build the team's skills especially for reconciliation methodology and close discipline.
• Be the point of escalation for accounting and A/P issues.
• Coach people through problems instead of taking the work off their plate.
• Support the team’s hiring, onboarding, and performance management with the CFO and HR.
• Be a go-to accounting contact for General Managers and operations leaders across RHG's venues.
• Answer questions and work with operators to resolve issues fast in ways that non accountants will understand.
• Reconcile and interpret POS data from restaurants and nightclubs, working with operations to track down discrepancies between POS reporting and the general ledger.
• Communicate close deadlines, reporting requirements, and process changes clearly to people who don't live in accounting.
• Work in Sage Intacct as the primary general ledger and reporting system.
• Build and maintain reconciliation workpapers in Excel: index formulas, pivot tables, lookups, etc.
• Support the year-end audit and tax reporting process, including documentation requests from the external accounting firm.

Benefits

• 1 work-from-home day per week
• Access to medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term & long-term disability, voluntary benefits, employee assistance program, and pet insurance
• Paid Holidays, Vacation, & Sick Leave
• Employee discounts at our many venues
• Exclusive access to events, shows, and other happenings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level