Staff Accountant

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Luke’s Lobster is a renowned seafood brand and a leading national restaurant group with nearly 30 locations, with both fast‑casual and full-service lobster roll restaurants. We also operate our own seafood processing facility in Saco, Maine, ensuring our 'Shacks' provide our guests the highest quality, best tasting seafood. Further, we produce branded seafood grocery products as part of our CPG business at grocery stores and other outlets around the country.

We are seeking a highly organized, detail‑oriented Staff Accountant to join our growing company. As a key member of the Finance team, the Staff Accountant supports accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and effective partnerships across our Operations teams. This role offers high visibility to senior leadership and the opportunity to improve, streamline, and implement financial processes across the company.

• Book the weekly payroll journal entry and ensure accuracy across locations.
• Reconcile receivables from third‑party delivery platforms.
• Reconcile undeposited funds and investigate variances.
• Manage the AP and AR approval and data entry workflows to ensure timely processing.
• Accrue expenses as needed in accordance with GAAP.
• Assist the Controller with maintaining and renewing company licenses, permits, and regulatory filings.>
• Act as a business partner for General Managers, ensuring financial information is timely, accurate, and actionable.

As part of a hospitality organization, the Finance team’s “customers” are our Operations teams. The Staff Accountant will:

• Assist with the monthly close process by preparing journal entries, booking fees, amortizing expenses, and archiving bank statements.
• Perform detailed analysis of general ledger accounts and investigate variances.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations with a high degree of accuracy.
• Collaborate with the Controller on preparation of monthly financial statements and management reporting packages.
• Support internal and external requests, including year‑end audit and tax filing requirements.
• Recommend and implement process improvements to drive accounting efficiency and accuracy.
• Participate in system enhancements, workflow redesigns, or automation opportunities.
• Assist with ad hoc reporting, analysis, and special projects as requested by senior leadership.

• Required 3–5 years of accounting experience.
• Solid understanding of GAAP and standard accounting processes.
• Extremely organized, detail‑oriented, and proactive, with exceptional follow‑through and communication skills.
• Experience in a team‑oriented, collaborative environment.
• Intermediate Excel skills required; ability to work with pivot tables, lookups, and basic analytics.
• Experience using Restaurant
  365, preferred.
• Experience with Power BI or Power Automate, preferred.
• Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.
• Must be able to be on‑site in Maine full‑time.

The ideal candidate is a collaborative, highly communicative professional who can clearly explain financial concepts to non‑finance teammates. They bring an approachable, customer service‑oriented mindset, recognizing that Finance plays a critical role in enabling informed, effective decision‑making across the organization. They are intellectually curious, eager to understand how the business operates, and motivated to dig into details to solve problems. They value continuous improvement and naturally look for opportunities to streamline workflows, strengthen controls, and help build scalable processes.

This person enjoys working across teams and readily steps in to assist wherever…