Consulting Accounting Associate Dallas, TX
Position: Consulting Accounting Associate
Location: Dallas, TX
vcfo’s mission is to make our clients stronger
We do that by providing fractional finance and human resources / people operations consulting services to small and medium-sized clients ($10M to $300M) in every industry you can imagine.
CEO Ellen Wood co-founded vcfo in 1996, intent on helping a wide variety of clients develop the strategies and adopting the tactics they needed by providing a slice of expertise at an affordable price point. Many finance professionals told us it would never become a mainstream idea. History tells a different story. Today, our employees in four offices (Austin, Dallas, Denver, and Houston) are closing in on our 6,000th client!
If you enjoy:
- Supporting CFOs in improving financial performance, controls, and reporting accuracy
- Solving thorny problems for a variety of companies and industries
- Working collaboratively with multiple client teams and internal stake holders simultaneously
- Juggling three to five widely varied clients at a time
- Seizing the initiative to develop new business with an existing client
- Communicating with and educating clients
- Lifelong learning
- Collaborating with brilliant, deeply experienced peers who come from such widely diverse backgrounds you just won’t believe it
- Engaging with local nonprofit and community organizations
- Having the support of your firm’s executives, industry-leading best practices, and an employee-led culture of people first, integrity, and accountability
You will love working at vcfo!
As a Consulting Accounting Associate for vcfo, you will:
- Responsible for aspects of month-end close and year-end reporting; by executing account reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany transactions and accruals
- Process Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
- Maintenance and compliance of financial policies and procedures
- Support and coordination for annual audit
- Recommend enhancements to analysis techniques and analytical processes and controls
- Provide tactical support for funding activities (due diligence, documentation review, data mining for valuation support)
- Process payroll
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required, Accounting or finance degree preferred
- 5 – 7 years AP, AR and payroll experience
- Previous experience as a Sr. Accountant, Accounting Manager, or Assistant Controller required
- Knowledge of GAAP accounting
- Experience in processing high volume invoices
- Demonstrated competence in billing, general ledger software, Excel spreadsheets and overall general knowledge of system databases and master files
- Accrual Accounting, Fixed Assets and Inventory
- QuickBooks, Sage Intacct or NetSuite experience required
- Advanced Microsoft Excel experience: exposure to pivot tables and VLOOKUPs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
As a Consulting Accounting Associate for vcfo, you will serve as a respected and trusted advisor to our clients. Our culture supports diversity, giving every employee a voice, and we band together to give back to the community through our vcfo gives™ program. Our employees have opportunities to work alongside the best in the business and increase their knowledge through work with varied clients and projects, while enjoying flexibility for quality work/life balance.
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary
- Commissions for lead referrals that become clients
- Flexible schedules to accommodate work / life balance
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company match on 401k contributions
- Short-term and long-term disability (tax free)
- Life insurance
- Paid time off + paid company holidays
- Paid time to support networking activities
- Paid Admin time for your development and access to company-paid training to support continuing professional education (CPE) requirements
- Access to our corporate condominium in Port Aransas, Texas
- Give back to the community through our vcfo gives® program
vcfo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. Please visit our recruiting information on our website at www.vcfo.com/careers/ to learn what our employees say about working for vcfo
If you require alternative methods of application or screening, please let us know by contacting us directly at recruiting@vcfo.com.