List of new openings:

Payroll Specialist – DT
Senior Accountant – Oil & Gas – DT
International Tax and Accounting Director – DT
Financial Analyst – Galleria – Heavy Modeling experience required
Budget Analyst – Galleria
Benefits and Compensation Manager – Galleria
Sales Tax Accountant – The Woodlands
Financial Planner – Galleria
Accounting Supervisor – Northwest Houston

Email dlemaire@cfstaffing.com

http://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/30-of-the-most-inspiring-things-anyone-ever-said.html

The start of a new week or a new month–heck, a new anything–brings with it an opportunity. You can either keep doing what you’ve done in the past (whether it’s worked well or not). Or, you can take stock, take charge, and try something new.

If you’ve ever found yourself in a rut, chances are you could use a little bit of inspiration. So, start your day by reading and reflecting on some great pieces of advice like the ones below. They’re among the most inspiring things anyone has ever said.

1. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
–Helen Keller

2. “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
–Teddy Roosevelt

3. “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.”
–Erica Jong

4. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
–Abraham Lincoln

5. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
–Maya Angelou

6. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
–Mark Twain

7. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
–Henry Ford

8. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
–Roger Staubach

9. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt

10. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
–Aristotle

11. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
–Dalai Lama

12. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”
–Vince Lombardi

13. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
–Chinese Proverb

14. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
–Muhammad Ali

15. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.
–Charles Swindoll

16. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
–George Eliot

17. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
–Babe Ruth

18. “Retirement planning is like life insurance. It should be viewed as nothing more than a hedge against the absolute worst-case scenario.”
–Tim Ferriss

19. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
–Seth Godin

20. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
–Albert Einstein

21. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
–Stephen Covey

22. “The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”
–Benjamin Disraeli

23. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
–Booker T. Washington

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
–Henry David Thoreau

25. “One man with courage makes a majority.”
–Andrew Jackson

26. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
–Erma Bombeck

27. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
–Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

28. “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
–Margaret Thatcher

29. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
–Billie Jean King

30. “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.”
–Ann Landers

• Strength in quantitative analysis, critical thinking, systems knowledge, and innovation.
• Ability to understand and work with multiple products, services, and markets.
• Able to effectively question current practices and pricing structures relative to the market environment and Company objectives.
• Responsive to deadlines, changes in priorities, and a dynamic work environment.
• Must be very detail-oriented, highly organized, and be able to effectively organize/present data.
• Strong mathematical skills.
• A solid working knowledge of PC Applications (especially Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• A solid working knowledge and familiarity with reporting applications such as Access, SQL, Crystal Reporting, Sales Logix and other similar reporting applications.
• Experience with MAS and Sage software products a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Partner with finance and sales personnel to determine and respond to customer needs.
Additional Duties:
• Additional responsibilities and/or duties as assigned by the Corporate Controller.
Education: B.A. or B.S. degree plus 2 to 4 years of related experience and/or training.
Work Experience:
• Prior work experience as a Business Analyst and sales support professional
• Experience in any healthcare or pharmaceutical-related business a plus
Computer Software Skills:
• Outlook
• Word
• Excel
• Powerpoint
• Access

http://www.businessinsider.com/simple-resume-formula-2015-3

Here’s a little thing I learned from working on hundreds — at this point probably thousands — of MBA recruiting resumes.

The top 1% of resumes for the top 1% of jobs in the most competitive industries, such as investment banking and strategy consulting, all focus on specific accomplishments over job descriptions.

It’s so competitive, they have no choice but to compete on actual value and impact.

There’s no reason this approach can’t be applied to all jobs, in all industries, at all levels.

The underlying philosophy is simple. It’s about focusing on the impact you have had … in anything you have done.

What did you achieve for your employers? How did you add value to your clients? How did you help people in your network or community?

So this is Rule #1, and the only rule. Well, OK, it’s a two part rule:

Write every single sentence or bullet point in an ACTION X led to RESULT Y format.
Support your claim with data and numbers; in other words, quantify the result.
Let me demonstrate …
So remember … it’s always about impact. Whether you are a banker or a line cook, it should always be about impact. Did you do something faster? Better? Did you help cut costs, increase revenues, raise funds, build relationships, manage staff?

Here are some specific examples for different types of work.

Project Management – Completed all project milestones 30 days ahead of schedule saving the organization 20% in expenditures.

Customer Service – Resolved 92% of customer complaints on the first call resulting in a 11% increase in Consumer Satisfaction Index (CSI) scores.

Digital Media – Ran a tight multi-platform social media campaign resulting in a 35% increase in page visits, a 10% increase in average time on site, and a 3% increase in clickthrough rate.

Marketing – Developed a sales and marketing strategy for a brand with the potential to increase global revenue from $29 million to $50 million within two years.

Finance/Accounting – Successfully implemented restructuring initiatives leading to a 10% decrease in COGS from $683 million to $613 million, and a 10% increase in operating margin.

Now, I hear you say … but what if I was in a non-profit job or in a non-numbers oriented line of work? Still works.

Non-profit — Wrote 24+ grant proposals, and helped raise $120,000 per fiscal year over 5 years; organizations included the Gates Foundation.

International development — Provided strategic direction to the government of Mozambique in the development of a US $1.2 billion HIV prevention plan.

HR — Implemented new policies for a better work-life balance for staff, leading to a 10% decrease in employee turnover.

If you’d like to see more examples check out our 200+ RESUME BULLET EXAMPLES. We’ve broken it down by industry and functional roles.

“But I haven’t done that!”
OK, so now you are convinced that it can be done. But you are thinking “but I haven’t done that!” As in “me personally … I haven’t done things like that”

Trust me, you have! Everyone has. They just don’t know it. Either you have never thought of your work like this, or you don’t know where to get the numbers and how to quantify. We can help you with that.

Sometimes people struggle to see their own impact, or have not really thought about their work history in those terms. But if you took a minute to think about it, you’d be amazed.

You have accomplished many definable things for your past employers, clients, and others. You have probably done many good things in your community or for teams you have been part of.

So, take a minute and look over each sentence on your resume and start thinking like this. In any event a focus on value and impact is what will make your resume not just a good one but the one that cinches the interview.

Because let’s face it, nowadays everyone has a good resume, especially if they’ve used the services of a professional resume writer. You need something more. And this is that ‘more.’

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/simple-resume-formula-2015-3#ixzz3TzRoxYuN

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/boomers-wont-budge-us-jobs-market-experiencing-massive-congestion-2015-03-05?siteid=rss&rss=1

Many older workers are holding on to their jobs instead of retiring — and that’s causing a logjam in the labor market.

After reaching a historic peak in 2000, the labor force participation rate — the sum of workers and those who want to work as a proportion of the working-age population — “drifted gradually downward,” says Patrick O’Keefe, director of economic research at CohnReznick, an accounting and advisory firm. The decline accelerated with the 2008 recession and the rate fell to a 36-year low of 62.8% at the end of 2013 and, he says, “has hovered around that level since.” The rate was at 62.9% in January 2015.

There’s been a sharp decline in labor force participation among younger workers (aged 16 to 24) and prime-age working adults (aged 25 to 54), according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, while older workers have been holding on to their jobs. “Coincidentally, a larger share of baby boomers, an exceptionally large cohort, continues to participate at historically high levels,” O’Keefe says. “Fewer Americans have or are seeking jobs and that has long-term implications for the U.S. economy and economic policy.”

In the fourth quarter, the labor force participation rate of younger workers was just 55.5% after holding steady at about 66% from 1998 to 2000, and participation by the prime earning group (ages 25 to 54) was unchanged at 80.8% after peaking at 84.4% in early 2000. However, participation among those approaching retirement had slipped only slightly from the mid-2010 post-war record rate of 65.3% to 64.3% in the most recent quarter and was 18.6% for those 65-plus, just shy of a two-year high of 19%.

Americans have either decided to remain in the workforce at a time when they might have otherwise retired due to finances or because they like working, “and that has meant greater competition for jobs,” says Mark Hamrick, Washington bureau chief at personal finance site Bankrate.com. Only 26% of Americans have a traditional notion of retirement in which they plan to stop working altogether, according to a new survey of 7,000 households released last week by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Many Generation Xers — those born between 1965 and 1980 — are stuck in middle management and waiting for leadership jobs, says Dan Schawbel, founder of WorkplaceTrends.com. “They’re the most stressed out, raising children, hit hardest by the property market crash and impatient and frustrated because they want to seize those executive-level roles, but they’re going up against boomers who are not ready to leave,” he says. “But they potentially have the first shot when these positions become available.”

This creates problems for those at the bottom of the ladder.

Many millennials — born between 1981 and 1996 — are choosing to stay in college longer and go to graduate school, a decision designed to help their employment and wage prospects in later years, Bankrate.com’s Hamrick says. “This also helps explain why the near-term financial prospects for many young people have been dampened early,” he adds. “The result is a ripple effect touching on many things including the housing market, vehicle purchases and saving for retirement.”

This is also manifested in the trend of more young people living at home. A record high of 21.6 million millennials were living with their parents in 2012, up from 18.5 million of their same-aged counterparts in 2007, according to a 2013 report released by the Pew Research Center. Of these young people living at home, at least a third and perhaps as many as half were estimated to be college students, Pew found. One theory: With more boomers working, Generation Xers are holding on to jobs that were once available to millennials.

Boomers, meanwhile, are hanging on, too. CohnReznick‘s O’Keefe, 68, is one such case. “I have a job that requires virtually no physical activity,” he says. “Many of my peers are still in the process of repairing the damage of the twin meltdowns.” Technology has also rendered many jobs obsolete in recent years, he adds. “Changes in calculations that used to take a couple of days now take minutes,” he says. “We didn’t have electronic calculators back then. We actually knew how to do a square root or calculate compound interest.”

• Staff Accountant – Galleria
• FP&A Manager – Westchase
• Staff Accountant – Greenspoint
• Accounting Manager – Cypress
• Senior Tax Analyst – Galleria
• Budget Analyst – Galleria
• Business Analyst – Galleria

Email: dlemaire@cfstaffing.com

http://money.cnn.com/pf/best-jobs/2015/list/index.html

Best Jobs in America – CNNMoney 

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Here are some of our current Staff and Senior Audit, Accountant and Tax openings.

• Staff Accountant – GL – NW
• Staff Accountant – Inventory – W
• Staff Accountant – GL – NW
• Staff Accountant – Corporate Accounting – NW
• Senior Accountant – Corporate Accountant -NW
• Senior Accountant – SEC – Woodlands
• Staff Accountant – SEC – Memorial City area
• Senior Accountant – SEC – Memorial City area
• Staff Auditor – Greenway
• Senior Auditor – Close to downtown
• Tax Staff Accountant – S&U – Close to downtown
• Tax Staff Accountant – Federal, State, Property – Galleria

Dlemaire@cfstaffing.com

Our client is growing and adding to their HR Team. We are looking for candidates who started their career in Accounting, but prefer to work in Human Resources. This is a newly created role and a blank sheet of paper to make into your own. Email me for more details at dlemaire@cfstaffing.com

Responsibilities:

• Support bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closes with the recording of needed journal entries.
• Analyze data and reconcile and balance payroll results, payroll postings and general ledger interface transmittals for all on and off cycle processing’s and adjustment runs.
• Provide reconciliations of payroll-related balance sheet and bank accounts.
• Provide analysis and back up for all payroll accrual accounts.
• Provide subject matter expertise related to HR queries and reports.
• Design and develop timely and accurate ad-hoc reports for management; provide analysis and interpretation of report data as required.
• Manage regular reporting of employee data to state and federal regulatory agencies, EEO-1.
• Interpret and forecast data, as well as translate the metrics into a compelling story and relate it to business impact for HR and company leadership.
• Perform analysis of relevant HR data, identify trends and develop predictive analytics to support the business and fact-driven decision making.
• Keep current with emerging industry standards and industry issues as they relate to HR accounting and reporting.
• Responsible for 401(k) audit and Form 5500 preparation
• Serve as primary contact for record-keeper
• Prepare quarterly report for the 401(k) Committee
• Review and reconcile claims paid
• Reconcile health plan-related general leger accounts
• Prepare Form 5500 work papers
• Other
  • Supervise the Payroll Administrator, HR Admin (Comp and Benefits), Receptionist and Operator
  • Take ownership of and ensure integrity of HR data through development of audit reports; troubleshoot irregularities; research, correct discrepancies, and ensure compliance

Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or finance required
• Knowledge of GAAP and statutory accounting principles