Chief Accounting Officer

Job description

Ascension Search Partners has been retained by a rapidly growing, PE-backed industrial platform with approximately $1 billion in revenue . The organization consists of leading manufacturing, engineering,and industrial technology businesses and continues to expand through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions.

We are seeking a Chief Accounting Officer to partner directly with the top-performing CFO and lead the transformation and scaling of the company's accounting organization across a multi-business platform.

This is an ideal opportunity for a leader who enjoys building teams, improving processes, driving accountability, and partnering closely with operations. The successful candidate will bring deep technical accounting expertise alongside the ability to roll up their sleeves, lead change, and develop a high-performing organization in a complex manufacturing environment.

What You'll Do

As Chief Accounting Officer, you will lead Accounting, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, and key finance transformation initiatives across the enterprise.

Key areas of focus include:

Integrating businesses to create a world-class accounting and treasury organization

Leading accounting across multiple operating companies and legal entities

Driving process improvement, standardization, and scalability across the platform

Implementing a best-in-class internal controls environment and leading SOX readiness efforts

Partnering with executive leadership to support strategic growth initiatives

Leading acquisition integrations from an accounting, controls, systems, and reporting perspective

Enhancing ERP, reporting, consolidation, and financial systems capabilities

Developing future finance leaders and building organizational bench strength

Establishing performance metrics and accountability throughout the accounting organization

Working closely with Operations, Supply Chain, FP&A, Tax, and business leaders to improve financial and operational performance

We are looking for an executive who combines strong technical expertise with exceptional leadership and business partnership skills.

Qualifications include:

Active CPA required

15+ years of progressive accounting and finance leadership experience

Experience serving as a CAO, Corporate Controller, VP of Accounting, or similar senior finance leader

Strong background in manufacturing, industrial, engineered products, aftermarket services, or other operationally complex environments

Deep understanding of cost accounting and manufacturing operations

Experience leading SOX implementation, public-company readiness efforts, or operating within a public company environment

Demonstrated success integrating acquisitions and scaling finance organizations

ERP and finance transformation experience

Prior private equity portfolio company experience strongly preferred

The Leadership Profile

The ideal candidate is:

A strong people leader who develops talent and builds high-performing teams

Hands-on and engaged in the business rather than operating from the sidelines

Process-oriented with a passion for continuous improvement

Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with day-to-day execution

Highly accountable with a bias toward action

Effective at creating structure and discipline without creating bureaucracy

Able to influence executives, operating leaders, board members, auditors, and private equity stakeholders

Motivated by building something bigger rather than simply maintaining the status quo

Why This Opportunity

This role offers the opportunity to help shape the future of a highly successful industrial platform at a pivotal stage of growth.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

Partner directly with the CFO and executive leadership team

Build and scale the accounting infrastructure of a $1 billion enterprise

Lead public-company readiness and SOX implementation initiatives

Play a key role in future acquisitions and integrations

Develop and mentor an accomplished team of finance leaders

Drive meaningful systems and process transformation

Influence strategic decisions at the highest levels of the organization

Participate in long-term value creation through equity ownership

This is a unique opportunity for a driven accounting executive who enjoys leadership, transformation, operational partnership, and building organizations capable of supporting significant long-term growth.

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Worksite address

houston, TX, 77246, US

Who can apply

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