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Our client is a leading manufacturer who has been in business for over 60 years. They are private equity backed and growing by acquisition and organic growth. They are a global producer of custom sealing solutions. They have locations in the US, South America, Europe, and Asia. They are located north of the Woodlands.
They are seeking a Division Operations Controller with 7 to 10 years of cost accounting experience in a heavy inventory setting for this newly created role!

Why work here?
• Discretionary Bonus
• International Exposure
• Opportunity to make this role your own!
• Highly visible role. Work with GM, CFO and upper management!
• Company is in acquisition mode, but also growing organically with the market shifting.

Requirements:
• 7 to 10 years’ experience. Combination of cost & inventory accounting.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• MS Office experience
• Great leader and go-getter personality!

Downtown & Galleria:

• Senior Project Accountant – Engineering Firm – Deltek required
• Senior Accountant – Midstream – Degree and major ERP required – $10B
• Treasury Accountant – Investment Firm – A+ environment
• Pipeline Accountant – Midstream – Pubic accounting required
• Revenue Accountant – E&P – 4-7 years strong revenue experience – $8B
• Royalty Accountant – E&P – 4-7 years strong royalty experience – $8B
• Senior Auditor – mid-size CPA firm – long-term Partner opportunities – CPA required
• Corporate Accountant – property management – CPA required
• SEC Accountant – O&G services – public accounting highly preferred
• Tax Accountant – large regional firm – O&G and/or strong provisional work required
• Senior IT Auditor – O&G services – 10% travel – $2B
• Business Analyst – Payroll focus – Workday required
• Senior Auditor –  O&G services – true management rotational program – 30% travel – $20B+
• Senior IT Manager – O&G Services – looking for heavy hitter, Big 4 highly preferred – $20B+
• Staff Accountant – Healthcare – public accounting required
• Assistant Controller – Commodity Trading – Industry experience required
• CFO – Non-profit – strong leader + industry experience
• Senior Accountant – Investment firm – Big 4 with high performance reviews
• HR Manager – healthcare – strong generalist needed
• Income Tax Manager- CPA firm – strong domestic provision experience and CPA required

NW Houston:

• Assistant Controller – O&G services – 2-4 years Big 4 required
• Production Analyst – 1-3 years E&P accounting (either in production, revenue, or royalty)
• Senior Internal Auditor – O&G services – 50% travel
• Controller – distribution – CPA, public, and industry required

North Houston:

• Cost Accountant – manufacturing – standard cost required
• AR Accountant – New grads! – “Manager in Training”
• Staff Accountant – manufacturing – degree required
• Leadership Development Program – major O&G company – Big 4 required
• Payroll Manager – construction – in-house multi-state payroll required
• Staff Auditor – consumer goods – 1-3 years internal or external audit – SOX required

West Houston:

• Corporate Controller – chemicals – Hyperion Essbase & consolidations required
• Senior International Accountant – chemicals – Intercompany and international accounting required
• Property Accountant – real estate/property experience required
• FERC Accountant – growing midstream company
• SEC Accountant – public accounting or SEC required – growing midstream company
• Corporate Controller – professional services – Big 4, CPA, and Great Plains required

SE Houston:

• Junior Accountant – chemicals – new grad or someone pursuing degree, go-getter
• IT Audit Manager – manufacturing – Big 4 required

SW Houston:

• Grant Accountant – education – 2-4 years GL experience
• Inventory Analyst – O&G services – 1-3 years GL experience, highly prefer inventory

San Antonio:

• CFO – Heavy Civil Construction – , High growth company – Unlimited PTO – CPA highly preferred
• Controller – High Tech Manufacturing – CPA REQUIRED, SOX, SEC, GAAP, Public Company Experience a must
• Assistant Controller – High Tech Service Company – PE Backed Company
• Controller- Property Management Company
• Tax Partner with Regional Firm

Forth Worth:

• Plant Controller – Manufacturing and advanced excel

 Industry News and Updates

We have hit the half way point of 2017! I cannot believe the 4th of July has come and gone and that we are less than a month from football season kicking off (Go Texans & Coogs!). As I take a step back and look at CFS Houston for the first half of 2017, we have seen the market finally rally! Even though we were off to a slow start in the first quarter, things really picked up steam in the second quarter. Based on how we are trending right now, I am confident that the second half of 2017 will continue to have a strong demand for hiring. In the many years I have recruited in the Houston market, the strongest have always been August, September and October. You might be wondering what the slowest months are – this is not the case every year, but typically they are January and July.

If you’re looking to make a move, it’s the right time to start dusting off and updating your resume. If you don’t feel like you’re in a position to accept the right offer “today,” then it probably makes sense to hold off until you are, as you don’t want to invest time and effort interviewing if you’re not truly looking to make a move. The good news is that unemployment continues to fall, which creates a low supply of talent to match a high demand for talent. If you’re in that “wait and see” mode, that is okay too. Just let me know when you are ready. I hope to be your go to recruiter when the time is right.

Feel free to reach out to me with any questions. See you again in September!  

Local Statistics:

• National Unemployment Rate: 4.1 (last year 4.5)
• Houston Unemployment Rate:  5.1 (last year 4.9)
• Labor Participation Rate: 62.8% (last year 62.7%) – January 2007 66.4% (Why are there not more people coming back into the job market nationally?)
• Manufacturing Index: 54.1 (last year 45.8) This jumped up a lot of in the past two months!!!!
• Oil Rig Count: 893 (last year 407)  
• Price of Oil:  $51.06  (last year $40.75)
• Industries hiring:  Manufacturing, Real Estate, Consumer Goods, Limited Oil & Gas is coming back, Non Profit, Public Accounting Firms!!!! 
• Positions in demand: Audit, IT Audit, Staff Accountants, Controller roles are coming back, SEC

Interesting Articles:

• Why your handshake matters: http://wp.me/puDjI-1VB
• Interview questions on resilience and how to answer them: http://wp.me/puDjI-1UP
• Free Resume Writing Tutorial! www.careertuners.com: http://wp.me/puDjI-1TG
• List of Certifications for Accounting & Finance Professionals: https://dianedelgadolemaire.com/certification-list/
• 41 REASONS WHY CANDIDATES FAIL AT INTERVIEW: http://wp.me/puDjI-1Sd

http://www.oncontact.com/blog/30-motivational-quotes-inspire-sales-team/

1. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
2. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
3. “The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse.” – John Mason
4. “Prospecting – find the man with the problem.” – Ben Friedman
5. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
6. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
8. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” – David Brinkley
9. “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford
10. “Make a customer, not a sale.” – Katherine Barchetti
11. “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
12. “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” – Estée Lauder
13. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
14. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
15. “Every sale has five obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar
16. “Most people think ‘selling’ is the same as ‘talking’. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job.” – Roy Bartell
17. “Today is always the most productive day of your week.” – Mark Hunter
18. “Your competition is everything else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.” – Don Cooper
19. “The same wind blows on us all. What matters is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.” – Jim Rohn
20. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.” – Les Brown
21. “If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.” – Fran Tarkenton
22. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” – Thomas Jefferson
23. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.” – William Clement Stone
24. “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” – Thomas J. Watson Jr
25. “Begin by always expecting good things to happen.” – Tom Hopkins
26. “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust.” – Bob Burg
27. “Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.” – Ben Feldman
28. “Nobody likes to be sold to, but everybody likes to buy.” – Earl Taylor
29. “It is not your customer’s job to remember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you.” – Patricia Fripp
30. “The key to mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you – how great you are, and what you do – to statements about them.” – Jeffrey Gitomer

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Summary 

Each year our client hires a number of outstanding candidates as analysts and accountants.  They target individuals with a CPA license and a minimum of 2 years public accounting experience.  These professional positions are a vital part of the organization supporting the company’s business lines by ensuring accurate accounting and financial statements for all operations.  You can expect to rotate through two to three assignments in the first four to five years allowing for a variety of experiences to build skills and knowledge.

Responsibilities 

•Analysis of relationships between complex operations, related contracts and financial transactions

•Communicating and implementing changes in accounting standards

•Utilizing and updating computing systems to accurately record financial transactions

•Designing and evaluating controls

•Improving financial and accounting processes

•Providing financial support to operating and financial organizations

#houston #hiring #jobs #accounting #analyst #recruiter 

With succession planning in the forefront, our client is recruiting Big 4 external auditors for a multi-year leadership rotational program, which will prepare the associate for consideration for a senior level leadership position.

The rotational program provides intensive field-based training in communication, leadership, finance, sales and operations, enabling the associate to apply these skills in critical roles throughout the company as they begin a career with the company. The program also provides access to an instant peer group and networking opportunities to help the associate learn and grow within the organization. The associate will learn directly from company leaders. Through training and real-life assignments the associate will gain the technical skills and leadership knowledge they will need to run their own part of the business.

Position Summary:

Our client seeks a bright, motivated, detail-oriented audit professional for an Internal Auditor position in their Houston, TX office. This position will report to the Audit Manager and the Audit Director based in Houston, TX and will be part of the audit team responsible for the company’s US-based corporate functions. This position provides excellent international work experience and requires travel to top domestic destinations with some international and local area travel as well.

Responsibilities: 

• Participate in multiple and simultaneous risk-based audits, while maintaining departmental quality standards.
• Effectively complete audit planning, fieldwork and reporting for financial, operational, integrated and system reviews, both domestically and internationally.
• Assist in preparing audit reports that accurately summarize the most significant control weaknesses and resulting impacts to the organization.
• Assist management and audit team members through all phases of audit engagement execution, as requested.
• Represent Corporate Audit on company initiatives and special projects, including SOX compliance.
• Contribute to internal department initiatives, such as training, departmental development and other internal projects, as requested.
• Understand the company organization and develop relationships to provide value-added solutions and best-practices.

Qualifications: 

• Must have a minimum of 3 to 4  years progressive audit experience in a Big 4 or renowned regional public accounting firm and/or internal audit department.
• CPA or CIA is preferred;
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/business is required.
• Exposure to Sarbanes-Oxley.

dlemaire@cfstaffing.com

#internalaudit #SOX #oilandgas #job #jobs #hiringnow

The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metro area created 10,700 jobs in June and
56,100 over the previous 12 months, according to data released today by the Texas
Workforce Commission. The monthly job gain was on par with the region’s 20-year
average of 11,000 jobs added for a June. The 12-month job growth was well above the
20-year average of 48,300 jobs. Houston’s total nonfarm payroll employment now stands
at 3,058,900, a new high for the metro.

Five sectors accounted for the bulk of the job gains over the past 12 months—
employment services, health care, local education, fabricated metal products, and
restaurants and bars.
• Employment services, a subsector of professional and business services, added 16,000
jobs over the year, roughly one in every four new jobs in the region. The subsector
includes workers hired on a contract basis through a temporary help agency.
Employment in the subsector has trended up since November ’16 and now stands at
an all-time high.
• Health care and social assistance added 12,600 jobs in the past 12 months, a robust
Ambulatory health care (i.e., non-hospital services) accounted for two-thirds of the
jobs created in the sector.
• Local education (i.e., school districts) added 10,400 jobs. The sector continues to
benefit from healthy population growth and a surge in school construction in the
suburbs.
• Fabricated metal products, which includes machine shops and structural metals, is
benefiting from the recent growth in the rig count. The sector added 6,600 jobs over
the past 12 months.
• Houstonians continue to enjoy dining out. The sector added 6,100 jobs in the 12
months ending June ’17.
Job gains were somewhat offset by losses in oil and gas extraction (-5,300 jobs),
construction (-5,200 jobs), machinery manufacturing (-4,500 jobs), retail trade (-3,000 jobs), wholesale trade (-1,400 jobs) and minor losses in several other sectors.
Readers should be cautioned that the numbers reported today are subject to revision in
March of next year.
Houston’s June unemployment rate was 5.3 percent, up from 5.1 percent in May but
down from 5.6 percent in June ’16.

Texas’ unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in June,
up from 4.4 percent in May but down from 5.0 percent in June ’16.

The U.S. rate was 4.5 percent in June, up from 4.1 percent in May but down from 5.1 percent in June ’16. The rates are not seasonally adjusted.

Prepared by Greater Houston Partnership Research Department

Patrick Jankowski, CCR
Senior Vice President, Research
713-844-3616
pjankowski@houston.org

Jenny Philip
Director, Economic Research
713-844-3615
jphilip@houston.org

Treasury Accountant

Why take a Treasury Accountant role with this company?

• Dynamic industry exposure from real estate, investments to oil & gas
• Extreme growth on the horizon
• Opportunity to grow within the organization – position is open due to a promotion
• Professional yet casual work setting

What the Treasury Accountant will do…

• Daily treasury function for multiple companies including wires, positive pay, ACH, deposits, etc. and assist with cash management.
• Weekly cash reporting as well as quarterly cash reports for Board meetings.
• Assist with management of banking relationships.
• Assist with preparation of annual budgets.

What the company needs in a Treasury Accountant:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• 2 to 4 years of total experience
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred
• Intermediate to advanced Excel 

Perks of the Treasury Accountant role:

• Discretionary bonus of 7.5%
• 100% match up to 8% 401K
• Paid parking or fully subsidized transit
• Work for a very stable and locally respected company