Who We Are: Connor CX is a professional services firm made up of top-tier public accounting alumni and industry professionals who work alongside some of the world’s top growth companies. We find, train, and equip the best financial operators in the world, and connect our people, talent, tools, and experience to client accounting and finance teams. Our professionals are prepared to address the most common and the most complex issues finance and accounting executives face.
The “X” in our name stands for eXperience, eXpertise, and eXcellence; the three key areas of our focus. CX provides the best and broadest experience in the industry for our professionals, leading to accelerated growth and expertise. We push our professionals to achieve excellence through certifications, training, tools, and templates we provide to our professionals via our Academy, a cutting-edge educational platform developed for the exclusive use of CX professionals.
Connor CX is part of the Connor Group organization, which is trusted by 800+ world-class companies because of our vast expertise and quality of work. Our commitment to excellence has made us the #1 IPO service provider and market leader for over a decade in operational and technical accounting areas, such as: controllership, financial reporting, revenue recognition, lease accounting, debt & equity, and systems. We deliver high-value accounting consulting services to companies like Google, Tesla, Airbnb, Spotify, and hundreds of other high-growth companies in varying industries around the world.
What We Do: Whether due to growth, turnover, special projects or a variety of other reasons, our clients have critical and oftentimes sensitive needs that require high-quality professional resources. We at Connor CX understand these challenges and have worked to create a solution. Our professionals have the unique opportunity to be the solution to those needs and step into challenging and sometimes complex client roles, integrating with our clients on an interim basis, providing support when companies need it most. Opportunities to grow, learn, and accelerate your career with the world’s most recognized and exciting clients are endless.
Job Responsibilities: A Senior will have 2+ years of experience in public accounting and/or an industry role. CX professionals need to be problem solvers, critical thinkers, clear communicators, project management experts, capable of taking extreme ownership, and have the ability to act as the main point of contact for our clients. Our unique and exciting environment requires someone who will apply creative thinking to support ever-changing needs. We need someone who loves helping others solve problems!
Primary Activities and Responsibilities Include:
•Financial Statement Close Assistance
•Financial Reporting/SEC Reporting
•General Ledger
•Consolidation Accounting
•Managerial Accounting
•Complex Debt, Revenue, Lease and Equity Accounting
•ERP/Procurement/Close Management platform assistance
•Building client relationships through high quality deliverables, executed in a timely fashion, thereby adding value, and creating opportunities for new and further engagement opportunities.
Required Experience and Skills:
•2+ years Big Four or a similar top-tier accounting firm or a mix of public accounting and similar high performance industry accounting experience
•Proven solid verbal and written communication skills
•Ability to act and lead as the client contact
•Passion for helping clients with a strong interest in operational accounting
•Master’s degree in Accounting preferred, Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent required
•High levels of expertise in Microsoft Excel required
•Software accounting experience primarily with NetSuite or other large ERP is highly valued, and experience with other software such as QuickBooks, FloQast, Blackline, Workiva and Carta is a plus.
At Connor CX, we believe that growth and development are paramount to your success, both personally and professionally. As such we have made significant investments – and continue to invest – in our people through culture, technology, and our Academy. Our goal is to help all Connor CX professionals live happy, healthy, enriching, fulfilling and flexible lives. We believe our focus in these areas of investment will result in the highest caliber of accounting professionals who are equipped to live Connor CX’s core values of discipline, competence, likeability, and courage.
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What We Do
Connor Group is a specialized professional services firm of Big 4 alumni and industry executives. Our team of highly experienced professionals helps financial executives with their most complex and significant matters, including financial accounting and operations, IPO and M&A services, digital solutions, and managed services. Our clients are the world’s top growth companies, and we support them as they change the world and create new markets! The firm was founded in 2006 and has grown to more than 400 professionals with core offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, and Boston.
We have served more than 1,000 clients on six continents and have a 54% market share for Bay Area IPOs in recent years. Our client portfolio includes multi-billion-dollar public, mid-cap public, and pre-IPO companies ranging from early stage to late stage. Our global clients represent the most exciting industries including high tech, Internet, social networking, gaming, software, ad tech, cleantech, life sciences, financial services, consumer products, biotech, services, and manufacturing. Our goal at Connor Group is to be the most respected firm across our service lines by delivering the highest quality services to our clients. We are hired by finance and accounting executives who understand the importance of leveraging their time as well as having a partner that can successfully execute their needs.