Temporary Senior Director (Financial Control)
Atrium Staffing
Houston, TX
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Client Overview:
Our client is a worldwide conglomerate specializing in energy and services. They operate mainly in three critical sectors: low-carbon electricity generation (with a focus on natural gas and renewables), energy infrastructures, and customer solutions. Currently, they are looking to add a Temporary Senior Director (Financial Control) to their team.
Salary/Hourly Rate:
$70/hr
Position Overview:
The individual in this role delivers enterprise-level leadership for global accounting operations spanning the U.S., UK, Philippines, and Chile. This position ensures the accuracy, compliance, and timeliness of financial reporting, maintains a robust internal control environment, and spearheads the modernization of the controllership function as the business evolves. A strong foundation in accounting, technical standards, and global compliance is essential. The role operates within a data-driven, technology-enabled environment and collaborates closely with FP&A, Technology, and business leaders to drive operational excellence and financial clarity.
Responsibilities of the Temporary Senior Director (Financial Control):
- Oversee global accounting operations, ensuring that accounting processes align with the needs of a modern service and SaaS supported business model, including consistent policies, processes, and standards across all legal entities.
- Oversee accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual close cycles, ensuring strong reconciliation, review, and documentation disciplines.
- Consolidate global results for internal and external reporting, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and confidence in financial statements.
- Serve as the organization's primary authority on U.S. GAAP and IFRS, including interpretation, policies, and technical accounting matters.
- Ensure appropriate accounting treatment for all revenue streams -services, technology-enabled offerings, and data-supported engagements - applying sound judgment and rigorous technical standards.
- Maintain alignment between accounting processes and operational systems (ERP, CRM, billing, data platforms) to ensure data integrity and accurate financial outputs.
- Compliance, Controls & Risk Management:
- Establish and maintain a strong internal control framework across global operations.
- Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, IFRS, statutory reporting, and tax requirements across all jurisdictions.
- Lead annual audit processes and manage relationships with external auditors and local accounting firms.
- Identify risks, design effective controls, and drive continuous improvement in the control environment.
- Finance Process Optimization & Transformation:
- Support preparation to lead a multi-year transformation of global accounting operations focused on simplification, standardization, and scalable processes.
- Partner with Technology on ERP roadmap and system optimization to ensure accounting requirements-including global consolidation, close efficiency, data structure, and reporting, are fully supported.
- Implement automation, workflow orchestration, and data quality improvements that strengthen financial accuracy and reduce manual effort.
- Apply disciplined accounting perspectives to modernization efforts, ensuring that automation and digital tools enhance-not compromise - control, compliance, and precision.
- Business Partnership & Strategic Support:
- Partner with FP&A to align operational metrics, drivers, and forecasts with GAAP results.
- Provide the CFO and leadership teams with timely, clear, and actionable insights grounded in strong accounting fundamentals.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis with accounting insight into trends, risks, and underlying data drivers.
- Build financial acumen across the business, educating leaders on accounting principles, governance expectations, and the downstream impacts of operational decisions.
- 10+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience, including global operations.
- Proven expertise in U.S. GAAP and IFRS, including technical accounting, policy development, and complex transactions.
- Experience in environments undergoing significant change - transformation-focused, or fast scaling.
- Strong ERP experience (e.g., SAP, NetSuite, Oracle) and comfort working within data-enabled, technology-supported financial environments.
- Experience managing multinational teams and working across time zones.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is required.
- A CPA is required.
- Atrium Care Package available, upon eligibility (including healthcare plans, discount programs, and paid time off).
As a woman-owned firm, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), age, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, veteran status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Candidates who apply for roles through the Atrium website will be added to our candidate pool and may be considered for additional roles of a similar title. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
EOE/M/F/D/V/SO
Position ID: 160302
About the Company
Atrium Staffing
Founded in 1995, Atrium is a privately held, woman-owned staffing and recruitment firm. Our mission is to find people jobs they love and create custom staffing and contingent workforce solutions for our clients’ toughest business challenges. We remain dedicated to our founding Applicant-Centric philosophy, the personalized service we offer to every client and the importance of hiring talented, hard-working internal staff who embody our core values every day! Everyone we place and every problem we solve is made that much more rewarding by the motivated, engaging people that make up our team.
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