Operational Accounting Manager Jobs in Spring, TX

Position Description: Accounting Manager – Cost & GL Focus

Reports To: Corporate Controller

Location: Katy, TX (On-Site)

Compensation: $95,000 – $115,000 (Based on Experience)

Bonus: Quarterly Bonuses (Individual & Business Performance)

Our client is a family-owned industrial specialty contractor serving the Texas market. The company is big enough to handle Tier 1 commercial projects but small enough that you will know everyone’s name.

As the company begins to execute the next leg of its growth strategy, they are seeking an Accounting Manager to serve as a key individual contributor within the accounting and financial reporting team. Despite the Manager title, this is not a people-management role. This person will own complex accounting work, partner closely with operations, and serve as a technical resource to the CFO and Corporate Controller.

This role is ideal for a hands-on accounting professional who enjoys digging into the details, solving complex problems, and understanding the “why” behind the numbers. It offers the opportunity to be part of an M&A growth story while helping strengthen the accounting infrastructure needed to support the company’s next stage of growth.

• Stability & Growth: Family-owned business with a long-term hold strategy, not a "buy-and-flip" PE target.
• Mentorship: Work directly with a CFO and Controller who prioritize professional development, including support for CMA/CPA maintenance.
• Tenure & Stability: This is a stable business that has been operating for over 30 years and is entering an exciting new stage of growth. There are many long-tenured employees, and the environment supports both career growth and longevity—rooted in a results-driven culture that values getting the work done, not watching the clock.
• Maturity & Modernization: The company is entering a maturity phase of its growth, with a clear commitment to strengthening internal infrastructure. Leadership is focused on improving processes, streamlining workflows, and investing meaningfully in the finance function to ensure the business is positioned to scale thoughtfully and sustainably.
• Impact: A company that is big enough to matter—with Tier 1 projects—but small enough that your work directly impacts the business.

What the Accounting Manager Will Do

• Cost Accounting & WIP: This is the heartbeat of the business. Partner with Project Managers to review job cost reports, analyze labor productivity and project performance, and ensure costs are accurately coded to projects versus GL expense accounts.
• Own the Close: Take ownership of key areas of the month-end close, including complex journal entries, accruals, account analysis, and balance sheet reconciliations across cash, prepaids, fixed assets, debt, and other significant accounts.
• Complex Reconciliations: Own and resolve complex balance sheet and project-related reconciliations, researching historical discrepancies, identifying root causes, and ensuring subledgers, job cost reports, and the GL are accurate, reconciled, and fully supported.
• Financial Reporting & Analysis: Support the preparation and review of monthly financial statements, investigate variances and unusual activity, and ensure the underlying accounting accurately reflects business performance.
• M&A Support: Partner with the CFO and Controller on due diligence for potential acquisitions and help integrate newly acquired companies into the organization’s accounting processes and financial reporting structure.
• System Optimization: The business currently uses Foundation Software. Maximize its utility today while helping prepare the accounting function for a future ERP migration, potentially to NetSuite, as the business scales.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to strengthen accounting processes, improve workflows and documentation, and build greater efficiency and scalability into the finance function.
• Process Integrity: Serve as a critical layer of quality control for the company’s financial data. Catch errors before they reach the financial statements, investigate discrepancies, and challenge information when the numbers don’t make sense.

The "Right Fit" Accounting Manager

• Highly Inquisitive: You want to understand the “why” behind the numbers rather than simply completing a task. When something doesn’t reconcile, you dig until you understand what happened and use those findings to improve the process going forward.
• Hands-On Technical Accountant: The Manager title reflects the level and ownership of the role—not the size of the team you manage. You prefer digging into a complex reconciliation, analyzing WIP, researching an accounting issue, or building a clean Excel model over managing a large staff.
• Operationally Minded: You understand that accounting doesn't operate in a vacuum. You are comfortable partnering with Project Managers and operations to understand what is happening within the business and how it should ultimately flow through the financials.
• Change Ready: You aren't intimidated by moving from a legacy system like Foundation to a modern ERP. You see system migrations, process changes, and growth as opportunities to make the accounting function better.
• Team Oriented: This is a "leave our egos at the door" environment. You are willing to jump in where needed and work collaboratively with the broader team during close and other high-demand periods.

Qualifications for the Accounting Manager

• Experience: 5+ years of progressive accounting experience.
• Construction, manufacturing, industrial services, or another project/job-cost environment strongly preferred.
• Combination of public accounting and industry accounting experience is ideal.
• Strong understanding of month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and financial reporting.
• Experience with job costing, WIP, project accounting, or cost accounting strongly preferred.
• Education: B.S. in Accounting or Finance required.
• Certifications: CMA (Certified Management Accountant) preferred. CPA is a plus but not required.
• Tech Stack: Experience with Foundation Software would be highly valuable, but advanced Excel skills—including PivotTables, lookups, and SUMIF/SUMIFS—are non-negotiable.
• Experience participating in an ERP implementation or migration is a significant plus.