Panera Bread is a specialty concept with unparalleled people and quality products offering careers as diverse as our breads. We are actively seeking a Staff Accountant to support our bakery-cafes, leadership team, and other departments which require accurate financial reporting information and general accounting support.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Prepare and take ownership of assigned account reconciliations and account analyses each period, quarter, and year-end in an accurate and timely manner.
- Work closely with management with updating various accrual spreadsheets, pulling invoices, and researching variances to ensure accruals for bakery-cafes and overhead departments are accurate on a monthly basis.
- Participate in reviews with bakery-cafe and overhead management to answer questions pertaining to items within the P&Ls while developing proactive relationships to ensure exceptional customer service.
- Work within a team on special projects and other ad hoc requests.
- Accounting degree required with 2+yrs of experience preferred.
- Ability to handle high volume and tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
- Solid technical accounting skills with an ability to understand detailed accounting entries.
- Good communication skills to articulate to non-accountants and accountants about the actual financials.
- Friendly, helpful, and driven to achieve.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
- Workday experience a plus, but not required.
- Required travel – 0%
- While performing this job, the incumbent is regularly required to stand, sit, talk hear & use hands and fingers to operate keyboards.
Top Skills
What We Do
Panera began in 1987 as St. Louis Bread Company, a humble community bakery founded with a sourdough starter from San Francisco and a dream of putting a loaf of bread in every arm. While our business has expanded well beyond St. Louis since then, that same sourdough starter is still used in our iconic sourdough bread and the craft of baking bread fresh each day remains at the heart of Panera Bread. Each day, our trained bakers fill our bakery shelves with delicious freshly baked cookies, pastries, bagels, and a range of breads from focaccia to classic baguettes.
We believe in serving delicious, freshly prepared, clean food made with carefully selected ingredients that we are proud to serve our own families. Our menu, crafted by chefs and bakers, features classic, comforting dishes, each with an intriguing twist.
We respect our planet and take measures to lessen our impacts. We believe in treating people with warmth, kindness, and respect, whether it’s a guest in our cafe or one of our associates. And we believe in helping our local communities, especially in times of need.
We’re also focused on improving quality and convenience. With investments in technology and operations, we offer omni-channel access to your Panera favorites – like mobile ordering, catering, and Rapid Pick-Up® for to-go orders, Curbside pick-up and delivery – all designed to make things easier for our guests.
Today, Panera operates as both Panera Bread® or Saint Louis Bread Co St. Louis Bread Company in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Canada.
Panera Bread is privately held by JAB Holding Company. Panera Bread is part of Panera Brands, one of the largest fast-casual restaurant platforms in the U.S., comprised of Panera Bread®, Caribou Coffee® and Einstein Bros.® Bagels.
