Financial Controller

About Ramova Theater:

Ramova is a community and artist owned multi use space within a restored historic movie theater encompassing an 1,500+ capacity live performance venue, an independent brewery, a 200+ capacity live performance and event space, beer garden, grill, and taproom.

Ramova is more than live music, food, and beer. Our team, and by extension this role, will be charged with building a company culture that will create experiences with and for the community at large. Ramova exists to support the southside of Chicago, the greater Chicago area and national music scene, and anyone from near or far who appreciates good music, beer, food, and drinks.

Summary:

The Financial Controller role is responsible for maintaining financial procedures and confirming financial compliance through preparation of the company's reports and statements. The Financial Controller will oversee accounts payable and sales auditing for all components of Ramova Theatre while working with our outsourced finance support at Baker Tilly. This position will also work with our Sage Financials solution. The ideal candidate will be ready to jump in to support finance and accounting operations for the business, and be prepared for future opportunities as the business grows and we evaluate opportunities for expansion.

Essential Functions:

• Strong background in Accounts Payable for multiple venues within one operating space.

• Experience in receiving, processing, verifying all invoices within financial solutions for multiple venues.

• Communicate with all aspects of the operations to ensure all invoices are received weekly.

• Upload scanned invoices from each unit to company dashboards.

• Manage payments to vendors, cutting weekly checks and mail.

• Communicate regularly with Vendors.

• Set-up new vendor accounts, request W9 forms.

• Maintain accounting records by verifying & posting