Are you a Senior Accountant looking for a role with greater ownership, visibility, and long-term growth potential?
GHJ Search & Staffing is working with a growing, PE-backed construction services organization who is seeking a Senior Accountant to join its corporate accounting team in Carson, CA. Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, this position will play a key role in leading month-end close activities, supporting multi-business-unit reporting, driving process improvements, and helping standardize accounting practices across a rapidly expanding organization.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Own month-end and year-end close processes
- Prepare and review journal entries and account reconciliations
- Manage balance sheet schedules and financial reporting
- Support multi-entity accounting and consolidation activities
- Analyze financial results and provide meaningful business insights
- Partner with operational leaders to improve financial accountability
- Drive automation and process improvement initiatives
- Assist with audit, tax, and compliance requirements
- Support job costing, WIP reporting, and revenue recognition activities
What They're Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Strong GAAP knowledge
- Experience owning month-end close
- Advanced Excel skills
- Multi-entity or multi-business-unit experience
- Self-starter with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Preferred:
- Construction industry experience
- Job costing, WIP reporting, and Percentage-of-Completion (POC) accounting
- Experience with construction ERP systems such as Spectrum, Sage 300 CRE, Foundation, or Viewpoint
- Audit or public accounting background
Why Consider This Opportunity:
• Opportunity to help build and standardize accounting processes
• Growing organization with acquisition activity and expansion plans
• Clear path for future leadership and management growth
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Strong GAAP knowledge
- Experience owning month-end close
- Advanced Excel skills
- Multi-entity or multi-business-unit accounting experience
- Self-starter with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Construction industry experience
- Job costing, WIP reporting, and Percentage-of-Completion accounting
- Experience with construction ERP systems (Spectrum, Sage 300 CRE, Foundation, Viewpoint)
- Audit or public accounting background
What We Do
GHJ is an accounting and advisory firm that specializes in nonprofit, food and beverage, entertainment and media and health and wellness companies. Previous recipient of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Employee Champion For Life Work Harmony Award and named a “Best Places to Work” by the Los Angeles Business Journal eight times since 2008, GHJ is passionate about helping clients and its people #BeMore by focusing on building thriving businesses and creating a better future. GHJ works as a business advocate for its clients — providing personalized service and building long-term relationships to help position our clients for growth. Through its affiliation with HLB International, a global network of independent professional accounting firms and business advisers, GHJ is able to partner with other top firms across major cities throughout the U.S. and the world. GHJ’s audit, tax and advisory teams leverage the HLB network to better serve its clients and give clients access to member firms in over 158 countries across the globe and over 775 offices worldwide. Also ranked as a top-20 largest accounting firm on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Book of Lists, GHJ has 15 partners and more than 160 staff members that serve over 3,000 clients. GHJ is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center (GAQC), the California Society of CPAs and the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofit).
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