Director Of Finance & Administration

Position Summary

Local Ocean Seafoods is seeking a finance and business leader with strong financial management, analytical, and systems skills and the ability to lead a small Finance and Administration team. The Director of Finance & Administration leads the financial,data,and administrative systems that support the company. The roleis responsible forstrongfinancial management and controls, useful management information, reliable business administration, and continued improvement of the systems and processes that support the organization.

The Director provides accountability and supervision for HR administration while working within Local Ocean’s manager-led approach to people management. The Director’s role is to provide leadership, judgment, analysis,supervision,and systems improvement - not to personally perform every transactional task or serve as the company’s primary employee-relations function.

Core Areas of Responsibility

1. Finance & Business Intelligence

Own the integrity and timeliness of monthly financial reporting and the financial close.

Lead budgeting, reforecasting, cash-flow planning,and financial forecasting.

Build practical financial models that help leadership evaluate scenarios,risks,and opportunities.

Establish a regular financial management cadence with the CEO and operating leaders, translating

results, forecasts, and key performance indicators into clear priorities and decisions.

Analyze labor, food cost, margins, business-channelperformanceand other key variances and translate results into useful management insight.

Maintain appropriate accounting controls and oversight of banking, debt, payroll liabilities, accounts payable and accounts receivable.

Coordinate with outside accountants and professional advisors on tax filings, year-end reporting,and related financial matters.

2. Data, Systems & Process Improvement

Improve the quality,consistency,and usefulness of financial and operational data used by management.

Understand and improve the flow of information among systems such as Quick Books, Toast,Market Man, 7

Shifts, Paychex,SharePoint,and related platforms.

Routinely assess the financial and administrative technology stack for relevance,utility,and cost.

Research and develop new systems when appropriate and maximize functionality and interoperability among platforms.

Develop simple, reliable management reports and dashboards that help leaders see trends and make decisions.

Identify duplicate data entry, manual reconciliations and inefficient workflows and simplify,integrateor automate them where practical.

Build a department that spends less time moving information and more time understanding and using it.

3. Administration, HR Systems & Risk

Supervise and develop staff responsible for HR administration, ensuring payroll, tips, benefits administration, onboarding/offboarding, employee records, permits and certifications, and other HR administrative functions are accurate,timely,and well documented.

Oversee the administrative systems and controls supporting payroll, benefits, compensation, insurance, workers’compensation, licenses, permits, and other recurring business-compliance requirements.

Support specialty reporting and administration of the Local Ocean Seafoods Stewardship Trust, as assigned.

Ensure Finance, HR, and Administration functions have clear owners, documented processes, recurring calendars,and appropriate backup coverage.

Provide management with guidance on HR policy, documentation, compensation,compliance,and administrative matters within the Director’s area of expertise.

Recognize employee relations, compliance, and legal risks and ensure complex matters are appropriately escalated to the CEO…