Lead Accountant, Restaurant Payroll Services
About The Position
The Chick-fil-A Restaurant Payroll Services Department provides payroll services and support for Chick-fil-A franchised and corporate-owned restaurants (COR). Additionally, the team delivers end-to-end payroll processing, operational support, and strategic oversight for COR. This professional-level role leads domestic and international payroll processing for the COR entity, restaurant transitions, and late or expedited payroll submissions. The role proactively identifies trends, risks, and process improvement opportunities across the payroll ecosystem, translating complex payroll activity into clear, actionable insights and updates for leadership and end users.
Requirements
- Builds strong relationships with others and values the opinions and strengths of teammates
- Ability to lead and manage multiple projects and responsibilities with limited supervision
- High level of detail-orientation
- Self-driven, exhibiting a personal drive for excellence, eagerness to learn
- Knowledge and understanding of Chick-fil-A’s standard suite of work solutions (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Knowledge or ability to learn new financial systems and/or reporting tools (Alteryx, Tableau)
- Payroll experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Accounting, Finance, or related field of study
- 5 years of experience
Nice To Haves
- CPP or CPA
- 7 years of experience
- Bachelor's Degree
- Accounting or Finance
Responsibilities
- Lead Company-Owned Restaurant (COR) Processing to include:
- Domestic Company-Owned Bi-Weekly & Weekly Restaurant Processing on HR Payroll System
- International Company Owned Submissions on 3rd Party Systems
- Monthly Operator Transition related processing
- Late Payroll Submissions & Expedited Processing Support.
- Create the payroll processing strategy across company-owned restaurants by identifying trends, risks, and improvement opportunities within domestic, international, and transition payroll activity
- Establish clear, repeatable leadership updates on COR payroll performance, exceptions, expedited activity, and emerging risks into simple, timely status communications
- Proactively identify and recommend enhancements and change opportunities for current processes for internal and 3rd party systems
- Represent a holistic understanding of the Restaurant Payroll Ecosystem to effectively articulate wins, risks, trade-offs, and timelines to end users
- Provide Restaurant Payroll Services support for assigned group of restaurants
- Execute on Restaurant Cash Management & Payroll Services Plan and communicate status to leadership; participate and contribute to team planning and budgeting; manage relationships with internal and external subject matter experts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
