Non-for-Profit Accountant

Area CFS has teamed up with a non-for-profit who focuses on the conservation of marine resources. They are a company who provides a family-oriented work environment and the chance to partake in the implementation of processes and procedures within the accounting department.

Essential Job Functions:

-Performs general bookkeeping functions for National office and various state chapters, as assigned.

-Assists with month-end close and year-end close financial activities.

-Recommends financial actions by analyzing accounting options.

-Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.

-Substantiates financial transactions with supporting documentation.

-Performs with balance sheet reconciliations and schedules.

Required Education and Experience:

-Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

-2+ years of experience in full cycle accounting

-Strong Excel Skills

-Experience and knowledge of Sage, preferred

-Experience working with a non-profit and/or small business, preferred

Location: Memorial

Why work for this company?

• Family oriented work culture
• Growth opportunity to move into an assistant controller role
• Flexible work schedule
• Health, Dental, Vision & 401K

Job Duties:

• To help provide complete and accurate financial information to satisfy the needs of management, owners, lenders, and regulatory agencies.
• Assist controller with outside auditors as needed.
• Prepare and enter monthly and yearly journal entries.
• Prepare general ledgers for monthly, quarterly and year-end close reporting.
• Prepare monthly account reconciliation’s.
• Prepare US Government census reports for quarterly and annual reporting.
• Prepare US GAAP & HFM monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements.
• Prepare US GAAP consolidated financial workpapers and financial statements.
• Maintain plant, property and equipment detailed sub-ledgers using Sage FAS software.

Qualifications:

• Accounting degree
• 3-5 years of experience in GL
• Experience with preparing GAAP financial statements, consolidated reporting, account analysis, audit schedules, accounting systems and analytical projects.

Our client is adding a Senior Finance Manager to their team. The company is publicly traded and services segments of the oil & gas industry. This position will serve as a liaison between operations, executive leadership, corporate finance and report directly to the President, Operations.

Why work for this company:

• Over 100 locations worldwide. Focus on expanding international operations.
• A stable company with a long stand reputation in their industry. They have been in business for over 40 years.
• An entrepreneurial company, with a strong management team and expansive international growth plans.
• Direct line to executive leadership! Their management team values the input of its employees.
• Ability to make an impact on the bottom line.
• Newly created role with unlimited possibilities.
• Generous compensation and benefits package.
• CFS has successfully placed several professionals with them for over 10 years!

Summary:

• This role is responsible for overseeing the operations financial planning & analysis functions, including coordination, evaluation, and monitoring of division level performance and reporting.
• Provides timely, accurate data and reports to management to proactively influence sound business decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Drives strategies and process improvement intended to meet organizations long-term financial objectives, while partnering with corporate finance, division finance, and operational leadership.
• Prepares Management reports including KPI”s and variance explanations. Creates dashboards for upper management.
• Provides direction of functional counterparts in operating units and senior management on matters involving cost determination, inventory valuation, distribution of overhead, treatment of joints costs and product pricing.
• Conducts complex financial analysis projects, including preparation of trend analysis to suggest improvements to the leadership team.
• Partners with operational management in evaluating sales and marketing programs performing value-added ad-hoc analysis.
• Collaborates with executives to develop and maintain annual budgets and track results on a monthly basis.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree
• MBA preferred
• 10 plus years of professional experience
• Extensive MS Excel (queries, macros, advanced pivot tables)
• Working knowledge of B.I. products preferred

Job Openings:

• Senior Financial Accountant – Energy Corridor
• Senior Treasury Analyst – DT
• Internal Auditor – Woodlands
• Staff Accountant – Pearland
• Internal Audit Manager – Galleria
• Senior Cost Analyst – Pearland
• Assistant Controller – Energy Corridor
• Consulting Company Senior Associate to Senior Manager (Transaction Advisory & Financial Assurance)
• Financial Analyst – Woodlands
• Tax Senior – Greenway Plaza
• Revenue Accounting Manager – DT
• Senior IT Auditor – Galleria
• Senior IT Auditor – Cypress
• Internal Controls Manager – Galleria
• Director FP&A – Galleria
• Internal Financial Reporting Manager – Galleria
• Bookkeeper – Law Firm
• Accounting Analyst II – NW Houston
• Senior Accountant – Greenspoint
• Audit Partner – CPA Firm
• Controller – Financial Services – Westchase
• Tax Analyst – Woodlands

• SEC Reporting Supervisor – O&G – Woodlands
• Nonprofit Staff Accountant – Memorial Park Area
• Nonprofit Staff Accountant- Montrose Area
• Senior GL Accountant – Private Equity / Investment Company – Greenway Plaza
• Accounting Manager – Small Company – Sugar Land
• Controller – Small Company – Sugar Land
• Controller – Private Equity – Sugar Land – 150K
• Senior Internal Auditor – 30% travel – Galleria
• Tax Managers (Public Accounting – multiple firms)
• TRUE Rotational Internal Audit Program – Fortune 100! – Galleria
• Staff Auditor – CPA Firm – NW Houston – Great work-life balance
• Staff Internal Audit – Woodlands – Rotational!!!!
• Senior Auditor – Public Accounting 9/80’s – GREAT work life balance – less than 20% travel!
• Junior Financial Analyst – E&P – Woodlands(Investment Banking or PE exp required)
• SEC Reporting Manager – Clearlake

Email: dlemaire@cfstaffing.com

Why work for this company: 

• 4.5-day work-week. 9-hour M-Thursday,  half days on Friday.
• 3 weeks vacation, 3 sick days, 10 holidays. Relatively flexible work-schedule.
• AWESOME benefits: $50 for health insurance (out of pocket for employee + family!), dental covered 100% by the company
• Lots of visibility in this role.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in close processes including reporting financial data from general ledger system into consolidation system, analyzing financial results and explain variances from budgets, reconciling mapping and financial flows and coordinating with the accounting team to proactively resolve issues.
• Assist/prepare reporting packages in the consolidation system, including balance sheet, profit and loss, and cash flow.
• Assist in the preparation of IFRS and statutory financial statements and various reports for internal and external parties.
• Assist, lead and work cross-functionally to achieve project planning and forecasting deliverables.
• Assist in the timely and accurate preparation of the annual budget.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
•  4-10 years’ experience as an accountant
• Public Accounting
• Good and deep knowledge of international accounting requirements.
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred.
• Experience with business consolidation tools. SAP BPC preferred.
• Demonstrates proficiency in consolidation, internal reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

CFS has teamed up with a non-for-profit who focuses on the conservation of marine resources. They are a company who provides a family-oriented work environment and the chance to partake in the implementation of processes and procedures within the accounting department. 

Essential Job Functions

• Performs general bookkeeping functions for National office and various state chapters, as assigned.
• Assists with month-end close and year-end close financial activities.
• Recommends financial actions by analyzing accounting options.
• Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
• Substantiates financial transactions with supporting documentation.
• Performs with balance sheet reconciliations and schedules.
• Helps provide detailed inventory schedule and reconciliation.
• Records income and expenses for certain state chapters and National office for events including the chart of accounts coding and journal entries, bank statement reconciliations and other organizational activity related to the general ledger.
• Processes credit card payments from banquet auctions and sales.
• Responsible for most phases of accounts receivable.
• Makes and prepares bank deposits.
• Ensures accurate documentation and compliance with policies, processes, and internal controls.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge

• Demonstrates knowledge of GAAP.
• Knowledge of accounting procedures.
• Knowledge & experience with accounting software and administration
• Intermediate understanding of accounting and reporting standards, gaining experience in researching as it relates to accounting issues.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• 2+ years of experience in full cycle accounting
• Strong Excel Skills
• Experience and knowledge of Sage, preferred
• Experience working with a non-profit and/or small business preferred

Why work for this company! 

• Global Fortune 500 company
• Over 400 subsidiaries with one of them in Pearland, Texas!
• CFS has successfully placed several people on their accounting team
• Company is a leader in the chemicals business.
• They offer a comprehensive benefits package.
• Over 100,000 employees worldwide with a small company feel.

Description: 

• Planning, studying and collecting data to determine costs of business activity, such as raw material purchases, inventory, and labor
• Development and analysis of monthly revenue cost reporting and forecasts
• Analyze changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods or services provided to determine the effects on cost
• Estimate new and proposed product costs as well as product changes
• Provide management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products
• Analyze the profitability of special pricing suggestions/programs
• Reconcile various general ledger accounts on a monthly basis
• Update balance sheet reconciliations: prior to recurring journals, after journals have been posted and once the month is closed prior to final Trial Balance
• Complete month end close process for costing
• Ensure the accuracy of the Company’s inventories including the adequacy of physical count procedures and reliability of reported physical inventory results.
•  Perform special projects and analyses to assist management in interpreting trends impacting the business.
• Address low/negative margin sales through costing review

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required
•  4+ years of progressive Accounting experience

Our client is a publicly traded oil & gas company with locations all over the world. One of their plant locations is adding a staff accountant to their team. The ideal candidate should have 2 to 3 years of general accounting experience and enjoy working with operations at a plant setting. 

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly financial reporting and coordinate month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing.  Explain variances from the forecast.  Monitor performance to key financial and operating goals.
• Coordinate analysis related to product line profitability and expense variance analysis.
• Ensure accuracy of financial statements in accordance with USGAAP and compliance to internal policies, reconciliation of inter-company transactions.
• Assist in audits, providing requested information on a timely basis.
• Maintain a listing of all completed Journal Entries and Schedules assuring completion in the designated time
• Interface with management in various departments, providing information and various analyses on a daily basis.
• Support special projects or financial analysis when needed by management.
• Support initiatives for process improvements such as cost accounting, expense analysis and margin analysis or other opportunities. Work directly with the Accounting Manager and Accounting staff in completing essential accounting/finance functions of the company.
• Assist in completion of the full accounting cycle including journal entries, fixed asset tracking, and supporting tasks for submitting monthly financials.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/ Finance or equivalent.
• 2+ years of experience or Master’s Degree in Accounting/Finance
• Beginning to intermediate skills required in MS Excel and Word.

Location: The Woodlands

Job Description:

CFS has teamed up with one of the top waste service companies in Houston who is looking for a highly motivated, results-oriented Staff Internal Auditor to join our team in The Woodlands, TX. The Internal Audit Department looks for individuals who embrace servant leadership, and who are eager to learn the business, accounting processes, and systems throughout the company. Many of the Internal Auditors have rotated into Controller positions around the country, as well as other areas such as Operations and Risk in as few as two years.

Requirements:

• BS degree in Accounting or Finance
• A good understanding of GAAP and internal controls
• Strong analytical skills
• Able to travel up to 35%
• Strong written and communication skills

You will be joining a team environment and colleagues who embrace a “work hard, play harder” culture. You’ll also be associating yourself with a company that likes to lead by example, through a strong presence in our local communities, charitable giving, sustainability initiatives, and more.

Our client is a Fortune 500 company with multiple locations throughout the US. One of their top 10 divisions is located in Houston. The Houston division is in succession planning mode due to two recent promotions. We are looking for a go-getter, so if you are looking for an organization who likes to promote from within, this role may be just right for you!
The Assistant Controller role will have an active role in monthly reporting and analysis, land accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and ad-hoc analyses.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead monthly reviews with Finance and Operations teams to reconcile all balances. Ensure all lot cost assumptions are appropriate and documented.
· Prepare soft cost budget analysis and lot cost calculations. Work with Operations and Finance teams to identify deficits.
• Participate in the month-end process, journal entry process and maintain monthly SOX binder for all land related activities.
• Assist the Controller in preparing the annual Departmental Operating Budgets, Asset Development Budget, and Cash Flow Budget
• Assist the Controller in preparing financial forecasts of projected revenue and profit in conjunction with financial analysis of budget vs. actual operating results.
• Review subdivision financial performance.
• Prepare and participate in quarterly forecasts and annual planning.
• Perform any additional ad-hoc analysis, as needed

REQUIRED 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• CPA, Preferred
• 5 to 10 years of Accounting experience, Public preferred
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, accounting theory, practice, and financial reporting
• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving skills, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent time management and organizational ability
• Ability to multitask and meet constant deadlines