Title:  VP Controller

Reports To:  CFO    

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Owns all of the accounting, including revenue recognition, general ledger, accounts payable, payroll, taxes, treasury services, and consolidation
• Ensures financial functions are compliant with GAAP, the SEC, and other regulatory and advisory organizations
• Maintains appropriate internal controls and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
• Requires an in-depth understanding of both US and International accounting principles
• Oversees risk, internal controls and the preparation of monthly financial information on a timely basis
• Develops, implements and upgrades financial systems and controls as necessary
• Ensures appropriate resources and staffing are available for department
• Interfaces with IT, Investor Relations, Operations, HR and other departments within organization
• Represents the accounting function in acquisition analysis and integration
• Applies knowledge of US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting
• Minimum of 20 years of broad-based accounting and financial experience.
• CPA required.

Experience:

• Manufacturing industry experience is required.

• Deep knowledge and experience in financial reporting and analysis
• Big 4 audit experience a must
• History of developing and implementing accounting policies, procedures, controls and financial reporting requirements
• Experience working in a publicly traded company.  IPO experience a must.
• Ability to credibly influence others with his/her point of view.

• Ability to work collaboratively with all teams, departments, management levels within the company, and external stakeholders.
• Ability to understand the vision of the organization and translate it into specific plans and actions that achieve desired results.
• Ability to have an organization-wide perspective and understand how the business operates.
• Must be a strong executor who has the ability to assist with strategy development at all levels of the organization to drive business performance.
• Demonstrates the ability to hold self and team accountable for actions and results.
• Demonstrates a passion for learning and a willingness to build new skills.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing organizational and operational needs; ability to lead people through change.
• Ability to recognize and implement opportunities to simplify processes and create efficiencies.

Assistant Controller

Responsibilities:

• Assures that an effective internal control environment is maintained. Assesses risk factors to safe guard assets.
• Coordinates the preparation of financial statements, reports, and financial analysis.
• Compiles financial statements. Assess and explains most budget to actual variances. Reviews financial processing.
• Assists in managing the monthly close cycle. Analyzes variances and reviews with management.
• Performs monthly close review and or posts journal entries.
• Reviews and approves accounts payables processing for account distribution.
• Prepares monthly narrative analysis of account variances from budget.
• Assists in the coordination of the annual year end external audit process
• Assist with external tax support, provides information for the 990.
• Reviews and approve bank reconciliations/investment entries.
• Reviews accounting regulations and pronouncements. Demonstrates knowledge of general accepted accounting principles.
• Ability to take on additional duties as assigned

 Position Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business Administration

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain standard inventory cost system
• Assist with month-end close
• Perform journal entries and account reconciliations
• Perform analytical review of financial statement fluctuations
• SOX testing
• Work with Director of Accounting on special projects
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Five to seven years’ total accounting experience
• Three years’ experience in a manufacturing
• Intermediate proficiency in Excel
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Responsibilities: 

• Prepare journal entries and supporting details
• Responsible for monthly reconciliation of assigned accounts
• Fixed assets accounting
• Assist with month-end close
• Prepare, process and maintain customer credit application packets
• Process customer invoices
• Post customer payments
• Daily treasury management and bank reconciliations
• SOX testing
• Perform analytical review of financial statement fluctuations

Required Experience: 

• Three years full-cycle accounting
• Intermediate proficiency in Excel

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Our client is a leading Oil & Gas company located in South-West Houston(Westchase). They are rapidly expanding and looking to add to a 5-person Fixed-Assets team in their corporate office. This company has been operating for roughly ten years and it is an opportune time to get in the door during these massive years of growth. Please respond directly to this posting to be considered.

75-90K +15% bonus | Westchase Location
Duties:

• Responsible for all property, plant equipment ledgers
• Perform fixed asset month end close process
• Liaison between accounting, finance & management
• Develop budget to actual reports to management

Why work here?

• Relatively new company with high growth
• Close-knit group
• Provided meals
• O&G Industry

      Requirements:

• 5+ years of Fixed Asset Accounting
• CPA certification preferred (not required)
• Great Plains ERP experience preferred (not required)
• O&G Industry experience preferred (not required)

Our Client is an established, privately-held diversified wealth management company Headquartered in Downtown Houston, with one of its strategic lines of business in real estate development.

Why work here:

• Work life balance!
• Amazing office with great company culture!
• Role is open due to promotion!
• Free downtown parking or fully subsidized transit!
• Ability to be part of real estate deals!
• Bonus!!!!

Click to access Economy_at_a_Glance.pdf

JOB GROWTH TO PICK UP IN ’18
The Partnership’s employment forecast for this year calls
for the region to create approximately 45,500 jobs. Growth
will be driven primarily by the strength of the U.S. and
global economies and Houston’s links to them. While
turmoil in the energy industry has for the most part subsided,
the forecast doesn’t anticipate the sector contributing
to job growth in ’18, but neither does it detract
from overall expansion. Only two sectors, construction and
information, are forecast to finish the year with fewer jobs
than they started with. All remaining sectors are expected
to expand, some robustly, others modestly, in ’18.

Downtown/Galleria

• Senior Accountant – Real estate investment firm – heavy acquisition mode
• Senior Tax Accountant – Real estate investment / Wealth management / Family Foundation
• Assistant Controller – large nonprofit
• Revenue Accountant – onshore, revenue, royalty & severance tax reporting
• Hyperion Administrator
• Staff Accountant – Non-profit – 1-2 years GL experience
• Senior Division Accountant – POC – 1 to 2 years  of public accounting experience required
• Bilingual Senior Treasury Analyst – Trading
• Accounting Analyst – Must have E&P and heavy IT /SQL experience
• Property Accountant – 10-11 properties – small but growing firm – Associate’s preferred
• Corporate Accountant – Property Management – small but growing firm – QuickBooks required
• Lead – Consolidations Accounting – O&G services – Big 4 required
• Senior IT Auditor – O&G services – public or strong industry experience
• Senior Auditor – O&G services – management rotational role
• IT Audit Manager – O&G services – management rotational role
• Tax Supervisor – CPA firm – Non-profit experience is a plus

North/Northwest Houston

• Staff Accountant – Construction Services
• AP Manager – Construction Company – Woodlands
• SEC Reporting Director
• Senior Financial Analyst – E&P
• Corporate Accounting Manager
• Consolidations Accounting Manager
• Staff Treasury Analyst
• Tax Manager
• Senior Treasury Analyst
• Global Cash Manager
• Senior Director Tax (Federal & State)
• Senior IT Auditor – 2 to 4 years of SOX testing experience
• Corporate Controller with prior IPO experience (15 plus years minimum experience required)
• Accounting & Operations Manager –  Real Estate Development and Investment – Woodlands!
• Senior Internal Auditor – O&G services – 50% international travel
• Staff Tax Accountant – O&G services –
• Tax Analyst – Energy – 2+ year provision and compliance experience – growing company

West/Southwest Houston

• Cost Accountant – 1 year of standard or average cost – global manufacturing
• Senior Fixed Asset Accountant – oil & gas
• AR Specialist
• Remit Clerk
• Senior Accountant – 3 to 5 years of GL experience – Manufacturing
• Property Accountant – Property Management – 1+ year property accounting – Accounting degree

Southeast:

• Assistant Controller
• Plant Controller
• Internal Auditor
• Senior Financial Analyst

Phoenix, AZ

• CFO – Private Equity Manufacturing portfolio company

Dallas:

• Plant Accounting Operations Analysts

San Antonio:

• Controller- Growing Oil Field Service company, construction experience preferred *Pleasanton*
• Full Charge Bookkeeper- Growing Company in the Real Estate Industry
• Senior Accountant- Homebuilding industry, construction experience & public accounting preferred
• Controller- Non-Profit, CPA, Budgeting, Audit, Grant Reporting
• Accounting/Office Manager- Non Profit
• Corporate Financial Reporting Manager- Stable organization, heavy consolidations, internal reporting, international reporting
• Non-Profit Director of Fund Development-heavy fundraising & relationship building
• Non-Profit Director of Resident Services- needs experience working in a management services role
• Senior Financial/Data Analyst- High Tech Service Company-PE backed, SQL, heavy excel
• Tax Manager- Midsize public accounting firm, growth opportunity
• Audit Senior Manager or Partner- Public accounting
• Audit Senior- local midsize growing public accounting firm, specializing in the Construction industry, work-life balance & competitive pay!

Diane Delgado LeMaire | Senior Managing Director, Executive Search & Branch Manager | Creative Financial Staffing (CFS)

5718 Westheimer Suite 800, Houston, Texas 77057

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