Controller

Legit. Texas. Barbecue.

Since 1941, Dickey’s has grown from one brick and mortar classic Texas barbecue restaurant to a food and beverage empire built by nearly a hundred years of family foodservice prowess. From a retail line and meat manufacturing company to a proprietary technology company and a global restaurant brand, Dickey’s Capital Group is the holding company that harnesses the hospitality leadership and knowledge of the Dickey family to bring an array of services and products for both B2B and B2C. A few of the recognizable entities under Dickey’s Capital Group include Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants, Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, Wycliff Douglas Provisions, Rancher’s Premium Smokehouse, Spark Intelligence and Spark Hospitality Technology.

Dickey’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our policy of equal employment opportunity applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. We are committed to fostering a fair and merit-based workplace.

Job Summary: The primary role of this role is to contribute to the success of the finance and accounting departments by leading accounting support and tasks. 

Primary accountabilities include supervision of the monthly close processes for assigned division(s), monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, annual financial audit, ensuring compliance to budgeted expense amounts, and treasury functions. This role will also be part of a team that creates and implements policies and procedures to identify, resolve and document accounting issues in addition to creating procedures to make the reporting process more efficient and accurate.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Preparing weekly and monthly financials for review.
• Review G/L coding of all transactions ensuring they are booked properly.
• Ensure accounting is aligned with GAAP.
• Audit and review franchise and area development agreements to ensure proper collection and payment of fees.
• Maintain full cycle accounting for assigned subsidiaries.
• Processing intercompany transactions and identifying them for elimination in consolidations.
• Reconciling various revenue and expense accounts.
• Assisting with the monthly evaluation process for each direct report.
• Assisting in the successful completion of the annual audit.  This includes work paper preparation and handling questions.
• Preparing documentation for the successful completion of the tax returns prepared by outside CPA firms.
• Ensuring reconciliations of the bank accounts and other balance sheet accounts are performed monthly.
• Review and modify internal controls to ensure security of company assets.
• Identify efficiencies with current processes allowing us to work smarter not harder.
• This is an in-office position, there is no relocation being offered.

Education:

• Bachelors and Master’s Degree with an emphasis in Accounting.
• C.P.A is preferred but not required.