Staff Accountant

Job Description

Staff Accountant | Horizon Environmental

The Tone:
This is a full-time, entry-level role at Horizon Environmental, located in Texas (with offices in Houston and Victoria). Horizon Environmental is a turnkey environmental services company providing emergency response, industrial cleaning, and environmental remediation. This Staff Accountant role is essential for ensuring the accuracy of financial operations, supporting payroll verification, job costing, accounts payable, and general accounting activities. The position offers a recent graduate the opportunity to gain foundational experience within a mission-driven environment focused on protecting communities and supporting industrial operations.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Texas

• Team: Accounting team, reporting directly to the Controller.
• Mission: Ensures accurate tracking and reconciliation of financial data across payroll, job costs, and accounts payable to support company operations and financial performance.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Excel, Sage 50 (familiarity a plus)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Time Verification: Review employee time records for accuracy prior to payroll processing, comparing them against job tickets, job numbers, locations, and supporting documentation, and helping resolve discrepancies.
• Job Costing Support: Assist with tracking labor, equipment, materials, fuel, and subcontractor costs, reviewing expenses for proper job and cost-category coding, and supporting reporting and discrepancy research.
• Accounts Payable Management: Assist with invoice review, expense coding, supporting documentation, vendor account reconciliation, and the review and coding of credit card and employee expense transactions.
• Accounting & Reporting: Support basic General Ledger research, account reconciliations, and month-end activities, while maintaining accounting schedules and assisting with recurring reports, data analysis, and special projects.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with Accounting, Operations, Payroll, and field management to obtain and verify financial information, performing other accounting and administrative duties as assigned.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. This is an entry-level position open to recent college graduates, with no previous professional accounting experience required. A basic understanding of accounting principles and financial statements is necessary.
• Experience: Comfortable working with numbers, spreadsheets, and transactional data. The ability to identify discrepancies and follow issues through to resolution, alongside a willingness to learn new accounting systems and processes, is key.
• Skills: Strong attention to detail, organization, analytical skills, communication, and time-management skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel or a willingness to develop advanced Excel skills is required.
• Bonus: Accounting internship, part-time, or academic experience. Familiarity with Excel functions like XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, PivotTables, and SUMIFS. Exposure to Accounts Payable, payroll, job costing, or account reconciliations. Familiarity with Sage 50 or similar accounting software.