Restaurant Accountant
San Francisco, CAJob$79K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Restaurant Accountant prepares monthly financial statements and reconciles sales, deposits, payment-platform activity, and accounting records. The role records revenue, expenses, payroll liabilities, inventory costs, and sales tax; analyzes costs and profitability; prepares budget-to-actual reports; monitors cash flow; and reviews payroll and tax liabilities. The posting requires a bachelor's degree in accounting and one year of experience in the offered job or a related accounting occupation.
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ## | | | | Prepare monthly financial statements, including profit and loss | | reports, balance sheets, and cash flow summaries. | | | | Reconcile POS sales, bank deposits, credit card batches, delivery | | platform payments, and accounting records. | | | | Apply accounting principles to record revenue, expenses, accruals, | | payroll liabilities, inventory costs, and sales tax. | | | | Analyze food costs, beverage costs, labor costs, vendor pricing, | | inventory usage, and menu profitability. | | | | Prepare budget-to-actual reports and explain financial variances to | | management. | | | | Monitor cash flow for payroll, rent, taxes, vendors, and operating | | expenses. | | | | Review payroll, tipped wages, overtime, and employer tax liabilities. | | | | Data entry, invoice entry, payment posting, basic bank | | reconciliation, and maintaining routine transaction records, | | | | Analyze financial data and advise management. | | | | ## | | | | ## | | Education and experience requirements: Bachelor Degree in Accounting | | with one(1) year experience in the job offer or any related accounti | | ng occuaptions such as (Auditors/Assistant Auditors /Tax consultants) | | | | ## Salary: $79,000 per year. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
How this job compares
Set against the 3,413 open Accountant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$79K/yr
- California median$100–134K/yr159 salary ranges
- US median$75–100K/yr996 salary ranges
This rate, $79K, is 33% below the California median midpoint ($118K) — in the lowest quarter of Accountant salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 346 open Accountant jobs in California and 3,413 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Accountant postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 2,247 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,825 of the 3,413 open Accountant jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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