dcd@fittsroberts.com

713-490-6003

MANAGING DIRECTOR – INVESTMENT BANKING

The Managing Director is typically the No. 1 person on relationships with larger and medium-sized clients, but may be the No. 2 individual working with a Senior Managing Director or executive officer of the firm.　 The Managing Director should be fully capable of managing activity independently.　 May be responsible for management of an organizational unit or geographic area or may supervise administrative support staff.

Description of Responsibilities

• Originates business to be entered into by the firm.　 Develops and recommends strategies, objectives, policies, and plans for the investment banking business to senior management.　 Demonstrates insight with regard to business opportunities and risk implications and uses firm resources wisely
• Conducts field visits to companies under consideration, interviewing company executives. Creates and implements client relationship/business development strategies, maintaining the highest level of business ethics and client sensitivity
• Utilizes excellent negotiating skills to persuade and influence others at the highest levels
• Takes the lead during initial drafting sessions. Applies broad in-depth strategic knowledge of banking products and services to complicated situations leading to profitable business results
• If the Managing Director is the No. 1 person on a deal, assigns responsibilities to each member of the team and is ultimately responsible for the completion of due diligence, compliance with SEC regulations and all written materials prepared by the team
• May take the lead on road show presentations, assisting company’s management to market to potential investors, brokers and dealers to facilitate the securities offering
• If the Managing Director supervises staff, he/she communicates objectives, priorities and performance standards and delegates responsibilities appropriately.　 Responsibly and thoroughly contributes to the performance management process

Qualifications

• High level of technical expertise in corporate financing. Significant experience in resolving complicated problems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to articulate the most substantive issues clearly and concisely
• Excellent negotiating skills; adept and persuasive with senior members of firm and clients.　 Ability to write eloquently and persuasively
• Outstanding and proven ability to develop and close business transactions
• Highly developed planning and organizational skills.　 Ability to set realistic objectives and time schedules and to leverage his/her own time and others’ time effectively
• High level of commitment to the firm
• Series 7, 63,　 and 24 licenses are required
• MBA and 8+ years of industry experience, or equivalent combination of experience and education

Vice President, Investment Banking

Description of Responsibilities

The Vice President may begin to assume some important new business responsibilities, however, the main focus of their efforts is in structuring and executing transactions.　 Typically, they are No. 2 or 3 on relationships with important clients, but may be the key contacts with some clients.　 The VP is often responsible for handling all client meetings except those involving negotiations on pricing or structure of a financing. May report to a Senior Managing Director, Managing Director or Senior Vice President.

• Assists senior management in searching for new underwriting business.　 Analyzes prospective clients through use of financial modeling.　 Demonstrates willingness and ability to generate thoughtful, creative approaches to meet goals
• Commands respect and confidence of clients and has influence.　 Demonstrates sensitivity to clients’ objectives and constraints and is able to identify and help create business opportunities.　 Actively developing good negotiation skills
• Fully knowledgeable in several banking coverage and/or product areas.　 As a member of the underwriting team, applies this knowledge during drafting sessions to complicated situations which leads to profitable business results
• As a member of the underwriting team assigned to a deal, is responsible for organizing and taking the lead at client meetings for the purpose of completing due diligence, preparing all paperwork required by the SEC and producing all other written materials
• Participates in road show presentations, assisting company’s management to market to potential investors, brokers and dealers to facilitate the securities offering
• If the VP oversees work assigned to junior members of the group, he/she functions well as a team leader, delegating responsibility appropriately and training and developing team members by instruction, involvement and example.　 The VP ensures that team members are evaluated and coached toward firm performance standards
• Displays strong commitment to firm goals and values. Participates in internal and external/industry related community activities for the benefit of the firm and takes a leadership role in the recruitment of junior personnel

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of theoretical and applied investment banking techniques.　 Excellent analytical ability
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.　 Ability to convey complex ideas in a persuasive manner.　 Comfortable in making client presentations.　 Ability to write in a convincing, thoughtful and thorough manner.　　 Good negotiation skills
• Ability to set priorities and realistic objectives and to be responsive to clients and the tea
• Series 7 and 63 licenses are required
• Knowledge of spreadsheets, presentation software and the Internet.　 Proficiency in MS Office preferred
• MBA and four years experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Internal Audit Director

Education and/or Experience:

• CPA and/or CIA a plus, bachelor’s degree in accounting from four-year college or university
• Large accounting or consulting firm experience, previous lead role in internal audit in industry.
• Thorough understanding of internal controls over financial reporting, COSO and SOX 404.
• General understanding of SEC reporting.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the Internal Audit staff as aligned with the standard.
• Perform the necessary risk assessments of all field businesses in order to develop an annual Audit Plan for field operational audits.
• Oversee and execute the Audit Plan for field operational audits.
• Oversee and execute value-added consulting site visits in order to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness of field businesses with respect to Company policy & procedures.
• Maintenance of an internal control monitoring system to support management’s assertions required by Section 404 of SOX.
• Develop, manage and execute the documentation and testing of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.
• Work with department heads in the documentation required by Section 404 focusing on processes, risk assessments, and internal controls over financial reporting.
• Identify control gaps and work with process owners to document and monitor remediation plans.
• Identify, recommend, and implement changes to the Company’s financial processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Serve as liaison for internal and external auditors in connection with Section 404 engagement to ensure requests are fulfilled in a timely manner.
• Prepare communications and status reports for senior management and the Audit Committee.
• Keep abreast of new Sarbanes-Oxley and related developments and identify their potential impact on the Company.
• Must be able to effectively communicate to all levels both at corporate and in the field.
• Provide support, as needed, for ad hoc projects.
• Travel requirement may be up to approximately 20%.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have general knowledge of accounting software (Great Plains and Enterprise a plus), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Hyperion.

Diane Delgado LeMaire|　Senior Managing Director, Accounting & Finance Recruiting | Creative Financial Staffing, a division of Fitts, Roberts CPA Firm | 5718 Westheimer Suite 800 | Houston, TX 77057 |713-490-6003 | dcd@fittsroberts.com|

• Development and maintenance of product standard costs for all new and existing products
• Cost estimating
• Inventory costing and management
• Analysis of standard cost variances
• Working closely with warehousing to ensure proper inventory reporting.
• Reporting and analyzing direct operating expenses
• Reporting and analyzing indirect manufacturing costs
• Management of PP&E and capital expenditures by business unit
• Support monthly reporting and close activities
• Degree in accounting or finance

Senior Accountant – East Houston

• Perform the monthly financial closing and reconciliations with closing deadlines and schedules.
• Consolidate the results of the operating entities.
• Management Reporting, Budgeting, and Forecasting.
• Assist in the Billing/Accounts Receivable, Cash Application, Inventory/COGS, Purchases/Accounts Payable, Cash Disbursements, Fixed Assets, Payroll, General Ledger/Reporting, Sales Tax, General Accounting/Reconciliations, Cost Accounting, Project Accounting, and Intercompany Accounting processes.
• Help in the set up and maintenance of an effective Cost Accounting System including standard costing and overhead absorption rates.
• Work with the Information Systems Manager to set up the architecture of the financial ERP system (MDSL).
• Assist in developing and maintaining all accounting, reporting, and financial control policies and procedures for the Company to ensure compliance with relevant accounting principles and procedures.
• Assist in coordination of the external audits, all tax and other statutory filings.
• BS, Accounting.
• Experience in the manufacturingindustry
• CPA desirable, not mandatory.

Diane Delgado LeMaire |　Senior Managing Director, Accounting & Finance Recruiting | Creative Financial Staffing, a division of Fitts, Roberts CPA Firm | 5718 Westheimer Suite 800 | Houston, TX 77057 |713-490-6003

• Oversee and enhance monthly financial reporting process
• Provide financial reports to equity holders by the 15^th of every month following and creditors by the 30^th of every month following
• Present financial report to Management Team monthly
• Establish and modify internal accounting controls
• Manage cash flow of company
• Train, manage, and motivate Accounting Staff
• Integrate accounting functions of acquired clinics
• Manage information exchange with external accounting firms (Audit and Tax)
• Manage HR and Payroll functions of
• Provide management team resources for recruiting and retaining staff
• Provide management team resources for performance reviews

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Excellent written and verbal communications and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Be ethical in dealings with referral sources, patients, vendors, and co-workers
• Ability to lead by example through training and coaching
• Proven effectiveness as an accounting professional
• A desire to work within a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment

Diane Delgado LeMaire|　Senior Managing Director, Accounting & Finance Recruiting | Creative Financial Staffing, a division of Fitts, Roberts CPA Firm | 5718 Westheimer Suite 800 | Houston, TX 77057 |713-490-6003 | dcd@fittsroberts.com|

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assist with the administration and maintenance of the HFM and Planning databases, including:
• Maintaining entity hierarchy structures
• Maintaining financial statement accounts and dimensions
• Maintaining calculations
• Loading exchange rates
• Loading monthly statistical data
• Managing and modifying metadata.
• Security Administration and maintenance
• Routine upgrades
• User maintenance
• Report maintenance, creation and quality control
• General trouble-shooting and user support
• Assist with the administration and maintenance of the Citrix server, including:
• Routine back-ups
• User maintenance
• Routine upgrades
• General trouble-shooting
• Assist with the administration and maintenance of the FDM application, including:
• Maintaining and modifying the account mapping  between the HFM database and the two general ledger systems
• Routine upgrades
• General trouble-shooting
• Creating and modifying reports
• Quality control, reconciliation and documentation of all changes to the HFM and Planning databases and FDM application
• Administration and maintenance of the Hyperion Disclosure Management application
• Training and support of both corporate, regional and local users

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in business administration, information technology, accounting or finance
• Three to five years experience working with Hyperion products
• Accounting and finance acumen – understanding of financial statements, accounting concepts, and analytics
• Detail-oriented with an emphasis on quality control and reconciliations
• Self-motivated and independent worker
• Team-oriented with a positive attitude towards being “on call” and working nights or weekends, as necessary
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills

Reuters

12:34 p.m. CDT, August 3, 2012

Stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs growth in July included another large contribution from the temporary help services sector, lifting shares of staffing companies in U.S. and European trading on Friday.

The fastest growth in U.S. temporary payrolls in more than a year also lifted the temp penetration rate — the percentage of temps in the workforce — to its highest level in more than five years. The rate is still below past peaks and below levels in other countries, but its steady rise points to the central role that contract, or project-based, workers play in the labor market.

Industry executives and analysts expect the temp percentage rate to reach a record high soon, reflecting caution among employers amid economic uncertainty as well as a shift in the nature of American jobs.

The government reported on Friday that temporary help services added 14,100 jobs last month. The 10 percent year-over-year growth was the fastest since May 2011. About 2.5 million Americans are counted as temporary or contract labor.

The data was part of a broader employment report that showed the U.S. economy added 163,000 non-farm jobs in July, above forecasts of a gain of 100,000. However, the unemployment rate, based on a separate survey, edged up to 8.3 percent from 8.2 percent in June.

The percentage of temps in the labor force bottomed out in June 2009 at 1.34 percent. July’s rate of 1.91 percent was the highest since April 2007. The rate is approaching the peak during the last economic expansion, 1.96 percent in 2005, and could soon top the April 2000 record of 2.03 percent.

“We’re pretty optimistic about the rest of this year and into 2013,” said Joanie Ruge, chief employment analyst at the U.S. unit of Randstad Holding NV, the world’s second-biggest staffing company by revenue.

“There’s a shift in the way companies hire. They want to use talent on an on-demand basis, when they need them for projects. I would predict that (temp penetration) number to cross 2 percent and break a record, maybe by the end of the year.”

At midday Friday, staffing shares were outperforming the wider stock market. ManpowerGroup jumped 4.3 percent to $35.64, Robert Half International added 2.7 percent to $27.47, and TrueBlue Inc, which specializes in blue-collar staffing, roes 6.6 percent to $15.30. Kelly Services and KForce were also higher.

In European trading, Randstad, Adecco and Michael Page closed up 4 percent or more.

CAUTIOUS EMPLOYERS

Temporary payrolls have been rising steadily since the U.S. jobs recovery gained traction in mid-2010, accounting for about 15 percent of all job gains since then.

When temp payrolls spike up or drop sharply, it can indicate a turn in the wider labor market: an imminent acceleration or a slowdown. That is not happening now, economists and staffing experts say. Growth is steady but not spectacular and shows an uncertain economy, rather than indicating an imminent pick-up in hiring. Employers are cautious about expanding the permanent workforce, and are using temps selectively.

Temporary staffing payrolls and hourly wage trends are the two components of the government’s monthly jobs report that are most predictive of future labor trends, said Chris Varvares, senior managing director and co-founder of Macroeconomic Advisers.

Varvares called temp payrolls “a small category that accounts for a large number of job gains.” Temp gains are being driven by “increased uncertainty about the sustainability of the expansion,” he said.

Over the long term, temporary staffing is growing faster than other categories because employers in manufacturing and other industries have grown accustomed to trying out workers before bringing them on staff, or use temps to lower overall costs, he said.

Business is steady, said Joel Capperella, vice president of Yoh, a Philadelphia-based staffing provider of workers for technology, healthcare and other fields.

“It’s not a waterfall, it’s more like a steady drip,” he said. “We still see plenty of larger (clients) that are sitting on cash that are talking about investing, but there’s a lot of uncertainty around the economy, the regulatory impact, what happens in the election.”

Copyright © 2012, Reuters

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Senior Accountant – $50-65k range

Duties include:

General ledger

Month end close

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Requirements:

Degree in Accounting

Minimum 2 years of gl accounting experience

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Job Description:

Work independently and assist other auditors in conducting internal audits and Sarbanes Oxley 404 reviews. Requires travel up to 50% including international travel. Must be able to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization including management and hourly employees.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist auditors in the preparation of accurate and complete audit work papers that adequately support audit findings and document work performed.

• Prepare audit findings and recommendations and discuss timely with auditee.

• Prepare an audit report which includes findings, risk analysis and recommendations for remediation.

• Obtain management responses from the auditee for inclusion in the audit report.

• Assist in the preparation of SOX 404 test results for the SOX team.

• Participate in special projects and investigations on an as-needed basis

Skills/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related field.

• 3-6 yrs. internal or external auditing and/or relevant experience.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Certification or certification candidate preferred (e.g., CPA/CIA/CISA/CPIM).

• Experience in a manufacturing and oil field service industry preferred

• Foreign language skills a plus; English/Spanish desirable.

• Experience in Oracle, SAP and ACCPAC a plus.

• Experience in a manufacturing and oil field service industry preferred

• Certification or certification candidate preferred (e.g., CPA/CIA/CISA/CPIM).

Professional Skills/Experience:

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Sound reasoning, analytical, investigative and problem-solving skills.

• Strong PC skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, for use in preparing reports, memos, summaries and analyses.

Position: Accountant 　Job Description: 　The Accountant will be responsible for supporting the Controller in carrying out the responsibilities of the accounting department. The Accountant will relieve the Controller of certain responsibilities that will allow her to direct her focus to Financial Statement review and analysis. 　Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Maintain fixed asset and associated depreciation schedules using excel; propose monthly general entries; insure proper recording of additions and disposals Perform monthly reconciliations for various balance sheet accounts. Coordinate the AFE process within Corporate and the field locations. Prepare correspondence as needed within the department. Assist Controller in establishing standard operating procedures including the development and maintenance of a system of internal controls. Maintain notes payable schedules. Prepare monthly and quarterly BS, IS and Cashflow Statement for investors and debt holders. Review monthly income statement(s), investigate and explain variances. Calculation of margin tax. Supervision and review of staff accountant work. 　 Skills and Abilities: A Bachelors degree in accounting is required. Holds a CPA license. Proficient in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point). General accounting and tax knowledge. Detail oriented with strong organizational skills. Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize, and meet deadlines. Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor. Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing. Ability to work well in a team environment that promotes inclusiveness and communication among team members.