Boos & Associates is growing, we were recently named one of the Fastest Growing Accounting Firms and Businesses in the Fresno area by the Fresno Business Journal. That growth has led us to expand to different markets, and we are in need of a highly skilled and experienced Accounting Specialist to join our Turnaround and Restructuring team. This role is open to candidates located in Fresno, CA.
If you are looking for an opportunity to help grow our firm, have an entrepreneur spirit, and enjoy leading and developing professional individuals this might be the role for you!

The T&R Accounting Specialist relies on significant private industry experience working in distressed enterprises to execute, lead, and train a team of T&R Staff in business restructuring and bankruptcy related engagements, including bankruptcy litigation and financial due diligence, and addressing complex questions and issues under the direction of a T&R Managing Director, Director or Senior Manager.

• Partners with the T&R leaders and decision-makers
• Creates interactive models and operational and financial analysis and prepares financial memorandums, reporting packages, and other financial presentations
• Prepares and analyzes complex, detailed cash flow forecasts and financial models together with assumptions and detailed supporting schedules
• Reviews and analyzes financial statements, recommending changes or highlighting unexpected results
• Functions as a business advisor to clients
• Supports business development activities with appropriate financial research, including preparation of new business proposals
• Works in crisis environments while delivering consistent high-quality work in an accelerated fashion
• Other duties as require

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Superior analytical and research skills
• Ability to structure complex analyses, gather and analyze data and provide insights
• Solid organizational skills especially ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details
• Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
• Excellent research abilities including familiarity with Capital IQ as well as other research sources
• Proven ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Capable of effective managing a team of professionals and delegating work assignments as needed
• Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with client personnel
• Willingness to travel as required
• Ability to successfully interact with professionals at all levels, inside and outside of Boos, including attorneys, financial advisors, clients and prospects
• Superior interpersonal, communication, marketing, sales and organizational skills
• Intermediate knowledge of bankruptcy and insolvency proces

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

The T&R Accounting Specialist relies on significant private industry experience working in distressed enterprises to execute, lead, and train a team of T&R Staff in business restructuring and bankruptcy related engagements, including bankruptcy litigation and financial due diligence, and addressing complex questions and issues under the direction of a T&R Managing Director, Director or Senior Manager.

• Partners with the T&R leaders and decision-makers
• Creates interactive models and operational and financial analysis and prepares financial memorandums, reporting packages, and other financial presentations
• Prepares and analyzes complex, detailed cash flow forecasts and financial models together with assumptions and detailed supporting schedules
• Reviews and analyzes financial statements, recommending changes or highlighting unexpected results
• Functions as a business advisor to clients
• Supports business development activities with appropriate financial research, including preparation of new business proposals
• Works in crisis environments while delivering consistent high-quality work in an accelerated fashion
• Other duties as required

Turnaround/Restructuring:

• Collaborates with debtor clients in restructuring the client’s businesses in and out of Chapter 11
• Assists with refinancing efforts and sale transactions
• Assists clients with downsizing operations, and meeting operational and financial goals
• Assists creditors with obtaining the most favorable distribution of assets from companies undergoing formal bankruptcy proceedings or informal workouts
• Evaluates management to determine ability to operate and reorganize
• Ensures compliance with all court filing requirements under a formal proceeding
• Investigates transactions with insiders, financial institutions and other creditors to determine causes of action
• Assists engagement leaders with financial, operational, and strategic oversight and responsibility in a distressed interim financial management capacity
• Supports growth strategy and performance improvement plan implementation in a distressed environment

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Supervises the day-to-day workload of T&R Associates and Interns on assigned engagements and reviews work product
• Ensures T&R Associates and Interns are trained on all relevant software and resources
• Delivers periodic performance feedback and completes performance evaluations for T&R Associates and Interns
• Acts as mentor to T&R Associates and Interns, as appropriate

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE ROLE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent industry experience (defined below), required
• Three (3) plus years of experience in private industry in progressively responsible roles such as Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Manager in distressed companies or crisis situations
• If substituting education in lieu of a bachelor’s degree, minimum seven (7) plus years of substantiated experience in private industry in progressively responsible roles such as Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Manager in distressed companies or crisis situations
• Strong financial analysis and complex modeling skills including expertise with cash receipts and disbursements analysis, financial statement modeling/forecasting, valuations and the due diligence processes, preferred
• Specialty skills such as cost accounting, FP&A, consolidation/intercompany issues, grower accounting, etc., preferred

License/Certifications:

• CPA certification, preferred
• CTP and/or CIRA designation, preferred

Software:

• High proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, required

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Superior analytical and research skills
• Ability to structure complex analyses, gather and analyze data and provide insights
• Solid organizational skills especially ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details
• Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
• Excellent research abilities including familiarity with Capital IQ as well as other research sources
• Proven ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Capable of effective managing a team of professionals and delegating work assignments as needed
• Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with client personnel
• Willingness to travel as required
• Ability to successfully interact with professionals at all levels, inside and outside of Boos, including attorneys, financial advisors, clients and prospects
• Superior interpersonal, communication, marketing, sales and organizational skills
• Intermediate knowledge of bankruptcy and insolvency process

Compensation Information: Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.
About Boos & Associates, a Professional Corporation is a Certified Public Accountant and Consulting firm established in February 2004. Prior to founding the firm our Managing Director was a Tax Director with a Big 4 accounting firm with over 30 years public accounting experience. We currently have a staff of approximately 117 and anticipate significant expansion opportunities in the near and long term. Our greatest strength is our people. We foster and support innovative, strategic ideas that can transform developments in accounting, tax, and consulting into practical solutions for our clients. Our Fresno office is a first-class facility located in the Fig Garden Financial Center. The firm is paperless and uses the latest in technology to assist our associates in performing in a more efficient and effective manner. The firm provides above market performance-based compensation and provides competitive employer paid employee benefits and a generous personal time off policy. We continually invest in our people by providing extensive training and career advisor programs.
We recognize our unique opportunity to embrace the cultural and ethnic opportunity our clients and people have to offer. We are committed to optimizing this opportunity to hire outstanding individuals of diverse backgrounds, and to offer them a dynamic, challenging environment to develop their skills as trusted advisors to our clients. Our commitment to diversity encompasses all people within our firm, professionals, and administrative support alike, including people of different races, religions, cultural backgrounds, national origins, disabilities or medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and ages.
We are an independent member of the BDO Alliance USA.
As an independent member of BDO Alliance USA, our shared Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm, you will live true to our Core Values of people first, being exceptional every day in every way, embracing change, feeling empowered through knowledge, and choosing accountability. Our Core Values are the standards by which we conduct ourselves day in and day out, both internally and externally.