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# FP&A Manager (R&D) at Restaurant365

- **Company:** Restaurant365
- **Location:** Irvine CA Austin TX San Francisco Bay Area CA Denver, CO
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/restaurant365/5f1fdd62-cb2a-450d-8b69-8fb90bb91e62

## Job description

Restaurant365 is a SaaS company disrupting the restaurant industry! Our cloud-based platform provides a unique, centralized solution for accounting and back-office operations for restaurants. Restaurant365’s culture is focused on empowering team members to produce top-notch results while elevating their skills. We’re constantly evolving and improving to make sure we are and always will be “Best in Class” ... and we want that for you too!

The Instructional Video Designer designs and creates engaging, high-quality instructional video content that supports client adoption and advances R365’s learning and certification strategy. This role combines creative visual storytelling with instructional expertise—developing original media assets that transform complex product concepts into compelling, easy-to-understand learning experiences. Instructional Video Designers operate with creative autonomy to determine visual approach, pacing, and structure. They manage multiple concurrent projects, scoping timelines and deliverables, and ensuring consistent alignment with instructional objectives, brand standards, and project goals. This position requires both creative judgment and strong project management discipline to balance artistry with precision and delivery efficiency.

How you'll add value:

- Serve as the key FP&A business partner to R&D leadership (Engineering, Product, and DevOps), supporting all planning, budgeting, and forecasting for the organization

- Build and maintain R&D headcount and opex models, including hiring plans, contractors, and capitalized software costs

- Build scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate investment trade-offs — hiring plans, infrastructure commitments, technology, and other strategic R&D initiatives — and partner with R&D leadership on prioritization

- Own monthly R&D budget-to-actual and forecast variance analysis, partnering with functional leaders to identify anomalies, trends, and key drivers behind variances in R&D spend and hosting costs, and incorporate opportunities for optimization into future forecasts

- Partner with Engineering and DevOps to forecast and manage Azure and AWS hosting costs, including usage trends, contract terms, capacity requirements, and committed spend, and provide financial analysis to support cost optimization initiatives such as reserved instance/savings plan commitments and vendor contract negotiations

- Own the COGS model for our multi-tenant SaaS platform — hosting, cloud infrastructure, third-party services, and support costs — and build and maintain unit economics (cost per customer, per location, per transaction) tied to gross margin trends and pricing

- Build business cases with Product that connect technology investment to payback period, margin impact, and revenue or retention upside, and establish a cost allocation and tagging approach so spend is attributable to products, features, and customers

- Forecast and evaluate AI tooling and infrastructure spend (e.g., Claude, agentic workloads) across R&D and other teams, and recommend cost-effective usage and licensing strategies

- Ensure the timely delivery of accurate R&D financial reporting, forecasts, and management analyses — including dashboards and a regular operating cadence for near real-time visibility into cost and margin impact — and support board- and executive-level reporting on gross margin, R&D efficiency, and capital allocation

- Applies AI tools to accelerate R&D financial analysis and reporting, validates the accuracy of AI-generated outputs, and incorporates AI-driven insights into forecasts and recommendations

What you'll need to be successful in this role:

- 8+ years of FP&A, Finance, Business Analysis, or related experience, including experience supporting an R&D, Engineering, or Product organization

- Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting or related field, or equivalent work experience

- Experience with financial planning, ERP, CRM, and spend management systems (e.g., Aleph, Sage Intacct, Salesforce, Ramp) preferred

- Ability to interpret financial statements and convey key recommendations to the business

- Experience in leveraging AI tools to build and manage complex financial models (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT)

- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to self-review work and consistently deliver accurate, polished outputs

- Advanced knowledge of Excel including modeling, and experience preparing executive-level presentations

- Knowledge and experience in the SaaS/software industry

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure billing and cost management (e.g., Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer) and FinOps concepts preferred

- Comfort partnering with technical stakeholders (Engineering, Product) and translating technical concepts into financial terms

- Ability to solve complex business challenges and work with company executives to understand business needs and strategy, delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on the business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits), backed by excellent written and verbal communication skills

R365 Team Member Benefits & Compensation

- This position has a salary range of $96,400 - $144,600. The above range represents the expected salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic location. Restaurant365 focuses on equitable pay for our team and aims for transparency with our pay practices.
- Comprehensive medical benefits, 100% paid for employee
- 401k + matching
- Equity Option Grant
- Unlimited PTO + Company holidays
- Wellness initiatives

This role is hybrid, balancing flexibility with the value of in-person collaboration. To support connection, partnership, and team effectiveness, employees are expected to work onsite each Tuesday and Wednesday.

Internal Employees - R365 is committed to growing talent from within.  If you see a role that excites you and you meet the qualifications, we encourage you to apply -regardless of your current location or work arrangement.  Reach out to your People Business Partner if you have questions.

DYN365, Inc d/b/a Restaurant365 is an equal opportunity employer.

## About Restaurant365

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Restaurant365 provides an all-in-one, cloud-based Restaurant Enterprise Management (REM) platform that unifies accounting, inventory, payroll, and workforce management to help restaurants increase sales, control costs, and optimize labor.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed, $437.5M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Irvine, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2011 (first market release in 2012)
- **Founders**: Tony Smith, Morgan Harris, John Moody

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Restaurant Technology (SaaS), Hospitality Management, Restaurant Enterprise Management (REM)
- **Target customers**: B2B – Quick-service, fast-casual, full-service, and multi-location restaurant groups (SMB to Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: To empower restaurants by eliminating complex, generic ERP systems and providing a purpose-built platform that drives optimal productivity and profitability.

## Products & Services
- **R365 Accounting**: Automates back-office financial operations – general ledger, accounts payable, bank reconciliation, and financial reporting – with seamless POS integration.
- **R365 Inventory**: Tracks food and beverage costs across locations, from receiving to consumption, with real-time variance analysis.
- **R365 Payroll**: Automates payroll, tip allocation, and tax compliance by pulling hours and tips directly from workforce data.
- **R365 Workforce**: Employee scheduling, time tracking, and labor forecasting – includes AI-powered scheduling that optimizes for sales and labor targets.
- **R365 AI (Intelligence)**: AI engine trained on full restaurant P&L data – provides AI Advisor for variance insights and financial queries, plus automated schedule generation.
- **R365 Mobile App**: Enables restaurant leaders to track sales, labor, and inventory in real time and communicate in English and Spanish.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: $100M annual revenue (LinkedIn estimate), $437.5M total funding across 4 rounds; serves over 50,000 restaurant locations.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources, but the company has raised substantial venture funding. Partners include CORE (Children of Restaurant Employees).
- **Growth Signals**: 725 employees (+6.8% YoY, +254 people), launched R365 Intelligence and AI features, acquired Compeat and Ctuit in 2021 to consolidate the REM category, and expanded with international offices in Mexico City and Palestine.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: R365 is the only solution combining accounting, inventory, payroll, and workforce data into a single P&L-connected system, eliminating the need for multiple point solutions.
- **Deep restaurant-specific functionality**: Built from the ground up for restaurant operations, with native integrations to major POS systems, banks, and vendors.
- **AI trained on full P&L data**: R365 AI is trained on the entire restaurant profit and loss, connecting what was sold, what it cost, what was paid, and what was made – a moat that generic ERP or payroll-only platforms cannot replicate.
- **Scale & adoption**: With 50,000+ locations, the company has significant data and network effects, continuously improving algorithms and benchmarks.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-powered automation and insights**: Continue expanding AI capabilities across scheduling, variance detection, and advisory to reduce manual work for restaurant operators.
- **International expansion**: Growing presence via offices in Mexico City and Palestine, indicating a global talent strategy and potential market expansion.
- **Consolidation of the REM category**: Building on the Compeat/Ctuit acquisitions to remain the dominant end-to-end platform for multi-location restaurants.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Restaurant365 emphasizes autonomy, innovation, and authenticity – “bring your whole self to work.” They foster a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive opportunity.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly. Offices in Irvine (HQ), Austin, Akron, Mexico City, and Palestine. Many team members work remotely, with offices used for in-person collaboration and events.
- **Benefits**: Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees; 401k with employer match; stock options; annual learning & development reimbursement; LinkedIn Learning access; paid parental leave; fertility support; pet insurance; and a TIP (employee recognition) program.
- **Growth & development**: Emphasizes professional development with autonomy to design career journeys, plus learning reimbursement and internal recognition programs.
- **Impact**: Employees work directly with an industry that serves millions of guests daily – the company partners with CORE to support restaurant employees in crisis.

## Sources
1. [restaurant365.com](https://www.restaurant365.com/careers/) – Careers page with benefits and culture details.
2. [restaurant365.com](https://www.restaurant365.com/about-us/) – About Us page with company history, founders, values, and office locations.
3. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/restaurant365) – Active job listings.
4. [restaurant365.com](https://www.restaurant365.com/) – Product page with AI features and software capabilities.
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/restaurant365-cloud-erp-for-restaurants) – Company page with employee count, revenue estimate, funding, and ratings.

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