Accounting Manager

The h.wood Group is a Los Angeles based lifestyle and hospitality company with establishments and events across the United States and Europe. We are committed to providing a warm, inviting, and uniquely lavish experience for our diverse clientele. Our company is built on integrity, creating the world’s best restaurants, nightlife, and events.

The Operations Accounting Manager owns the day-to-day accounting for our venues and the end-to-end accounts payable function. This role is the operational engine of the accounting department: it makes sure venue-level activity is recorded accurately and on time, that every invoice is coded, approved, and paid correctly, and that the close calendar is met without exceptions.

The position leads our internal Staff Accountants and serves as the primary point of accountability for our third-party accounting partner, which processes AP invoices and executes check runs. The focus of the role is operational: ensuring the transactional data and venue-level results that feed consolidated financial reporting are accurate, complete, and delivered on schedule.

• Oversee daily accounting operations across all venues, including daily sales reconciliation, cash and deposit verification, credit card settlement, comps/discounts, and inventory-related entries.
• Own the venue-level month-end close: accruals, prepaids, recurring journal entries, intercompany allocations, and preparation of assigned balance sheet reconciliations.
• Review venue P&Ls for reasonableness before hand-off to corporate; investigate and resolve variances, misclassifications, and unusual activity.
• Partner with General Managers and operations leadership on coding questions, budget-to-actual discussions, and month-end explanations.
• Maintain and enforce the chart of accounts at the venue level to keep coding consistent across locations.
• Monitor venue cash handling and over/short trends; escalate control gaps.

• Serve as day-to-day owner of the relationship with our third-party accounting team, including workload assignment, service-level expectations, escalation path, and performance review.
• Oversee full-cycle AP processing performed by the partner: invoice intake, coding accuracy, three-way match, approval routing, and posting.
• Review and approve check runs and other disbursement batches prior to release; ensure payment timing supports cash flow targets and vendor terms.
• Own the AP aging — drive down past-due balances, manage vendor inquiries and statement reconciliations, and resolve disputes.
• Maintain vendor master data integrity, including new vendor setup, W-9/1099 collection, banking change verification, and duplicate prevention.
• Enforce segregation of duties and approval thresholds across the AP workflow; ensure documentation supports audit requirements.
• Coordinate annual 1099 preparation and filing.
• Supervise, coach, and develop the Staff Accountant team — set priorities, review work, and hold the team to close deadlines and accuracy standards.
• Establish clear ownership and backup coverage across venues and functions so no account or process is single-threaded.
• Conduct performance check-ins, deliver feedback, and identify training and growth opportunities.
• Build and maintain written desk procedures for recurring accounting and AP processes.

• Identify and close gaps in transactional workflows; standardize processes across venues rather than allowing location-by-location variation.
• Recommend and implement improvements in AP automation, approval routing, and reporting to reduce manual handling and cycle time.
• Support internal and external audit requests…