Bookkeeper

About the role

Toast is seeking founding Bookkeepers to join their Financial Management team to help build a new service from the ground up. You will manage end-to-end bookkeeping for pilot restaurant customers while collaborating with product and engineering teams to define workflows, tooling, and service standards. This role requires a blend of hands-on accounting expertise and a passion for building scalable processes in an ambiguous, early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end bookkeeping for a portfolio of pilot restaurant customers: chart of accounts setup, monthly close, bank/POS reconciliations, accruals, and delivery of clean financial statements.
• Serve as Toast's in-house expert on restaurant-specific accounting: prime cost, COGS, labor and tip reporting, multi-unit consolidation, high-volume daily transaction reconciliation, and multi-jurisdiction sales tax.
• Embed directly with product and engineering, translating real client workflows and pain points into product requirements that shape our roadmap.
• Design and document the SOPs, controls, and QA processes a bookkeeping function needs to run reliably.
• Work directly with restaurant operators to understand their businesses, set expectations, and deliver a service that earns their trust.
• Help define what great looks like for this function as it grows, including future hiring needs, tooling choices, and where automation should replace judgment.
• Move fluidly between hands-on bookkeeping work and higher-leverage building work as priorities shift.

Required skills

• Bookkeeping
• Restaurant accounting
• COGS
• Prime cost
• Tip reporting
• Multi-location consolidation
• POS transaction reconciliation
• Accounting software
• Process design

Nice to have

• Tech startup experience
• Professional services
• Fintech
• Toast POS
• AI tools

Qualifications

• 5+ years of bookkeeping experience with restaurant or hospitality clients

Certifications

• CPA
• CB

About the Company

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.