Senior Accountant

Powell’s Service Division is currently seeking a Senior Accountant. This Division is located in Southeast Houston, and offers a flexible schedule.

Fiduciary - Maintain controls and procedures to ensure that company assets are properly recorded and protected.

Business partner - Provide financial reports to operations and financial management.

Team with division management and staff to improve business processes, profitability, and working capital management.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Lead the month-end close process, assuring timely completion of all activities per the closing checklist approved by the controller

- Reconciles balance sheet accounts; may review reconciliations

- Prepares journal entries - Prepares and analyzes key performance metrics for the division explaining variances from historical trends or expected results

- Coordinates quarterly and year-end audit activities among internal and external auditors and corporate finance

- Perform annual standard labor and overhead rate analysis

- Recommend, draft or implement financial control procedures. Instrumental in evaluating and updating the internal control framework

- Assists the Controller in developing the annual budget and forecasts

- Leads the preparation of departmental budgets

- Manages the financial aspects of the POC Revenue recognition process, including assuring compliance with related corporate policy over maintaining processes to determine cost-to-complete, loss reserves, segmentation, etc.

- May direct the activities of other accountants in the division

- Lead and participate in teams to improve processes and performance (all financial or cross-functional teams), including the use of process maps

- Ad hoc financial reporting and analyses - Documents and maintains financial processes and procedures

- Leads and/or participates on cross-functional or financial process-improvement teams Qualifications

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required. CPA or MBA, preferred

- Minimum 2-5 years of accounting experience required, preferably in manufacturing and/or project environment (e.g. Percentage of Completion Accounting – POC revenue recognition) - Knowledge and understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

- Microsoft office software proficiency, especially Excel and Word - Experience with an ERP system, Oracle preferred

- Team Player, ability to work with cross functional teams & business units (Including international) - Strong organizational and time management skills. Plans, organizes, and schedules in an efficient and productive manner. Able to manage multiple priorities and projects

- Able to handle complex and multiple tasks with limited direction - Detail and results oriented, excellent accuracy and commitment to meeting deadlines - Analytical - macro (financial trends, comparisons, relationships) and micro (getting to "root cause") - Good oral and written presentation skills, including organizing data in spreadsheets and graphs - Ability to lead meetings cross-functionally (e.g. month-end project review POC meetings) - Accepts constructive feedback and strives for continuous improvement - Work independently and responsibly - Excellent attendance and punctuality - Must be a highly motivated self-starter - Persistent and diligent with unquestionable integrity - Honest, full and open disclosure - Professional curiosity