Senior Staff Accountant - Corporate Finance

Responsibilities

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Staff Accountant to join our Corporate Finance team, based in the Downtown Houston office. As a key player in the team’s operations, this individual should be conscientious about their role and possess a strong “can-do” customer service attitude. The Senior Staff Accountant will have the following responsibilities:

• Tax Compliance
• Review US tax returns and related reports to ensure compliance with all federal, state, local tax statues, R&D tax study and regulations by working with external tax consultants to properly interpret tax laws and regulations
• Oversee international tax and compliance procedures, and ensure that appropriate internal controls are in place and documented for tax compliance for the following jurisdictions:
  
  

Canada, Latin America, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand

• Oversees transfer pricing process and for international subsidiaries
• Reviews accounting records ensuring tax transactions are recorded accurately in financial systems
• Research and implementation of tax processes, and makes appropriate recommendations from a tax perspective
• Manages tax disputes and resolutions, including audits
• Reviews preparation of audit work papers for external auditors related to tax compliance
• Other
• Mentors other Finance Team personnel on priority projects and other areas of accounting
• Communicates frequently with CFO, Controller and Assistant Controller
• Manages Staff Accountant(s) for Latin America
• Ad hoc financial analysis projects
• Review and/or prepare complex account reconciliations and journal entries
• This role is a hybrid position.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Minimum of 7-9 years’ experience in an accounting role
• Advanced knowledge of accounting principles
• Experience working within a dynamic multi-country team in a professional services firm
• Good working knowledge of tax rules and regulations with the ability to apply these rules to transactions in a professional services firm
• A strong passion for working with tax related items
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, establish priorities and organize efficiently in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional oral/written communication skills with ability to interact professionally with diverse groups
• Proficient in MS Office Suites – Advanced Excel
• Fluency in both English and Spanish (oral/written) is required to effectively translate complex business documents and facilitate meetings with diverse international teams
  
  

Walter P Moore is an equal employment opportunity employer, and provides equal employment opportunities (including offering competitive compensation and benefit packages) to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to any characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Overview

Walter P Moore is an international company of engineers, architects, innovators, and creative people who solve some of the world’s most complex structural and infrastructure challenges. Providing structural, diagnostics, civil, traffic, parking, transportation, enclosure, WPM technology and construction engineering services, we design solutions that are cost- and resource-efficient, forward-thinking, and help support and shape communities worldwide. Founded in 1931 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, our 1000 professionals work across 27 U.S. offices and 8 international locations.