Chief Accounting Officer

Woolpert; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Woolpert seeks a Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) to lead its Finance and Support Team remotely. This executive role involves ensuring financial governance and compliance while overseeing accounting operations across multiple entities, enhancing the company's growth and operational expansion. The CAO will report directly to the CFO and lead several multifunctional teams.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Career development opportunities

Comprehensive benefits including health insurance

Qualifications

• 15+ years in accounting and financial leadership roles.
• Experience in multi-entity organizations.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the global accounting function.
• Manage the Corporate Controller and related teams.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and internal policies.

Skills

Leadership

Financial Governance

Audit Management

Compliance

Collaboration

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Overview

Seeking a new career challenge? Then Woolpert is seeking you! Woolpert is hiring a Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) to join our dynamic Finance and Support Team remotely . This position reports to the Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for ensuring the integrity, scalability, and compliance of the company’s financial reporting and accounting operations. This is a critical leadership role at the enterprise level, supporting Woolpert’s continued global growth and operational expansion. The CAO will manage the Corporate Controller, the Project Financials Group Leader, and related teams, and serve as a key steward of financial governance across all business lines.

Overview

Seeking a new career challenge? Then Woolpert is seeking you! Woolpert is hiring a Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) to join our dynamic Finance and Support Team remotely . This position reports to the Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for ensuring the integrity, scalability, and compliance of the company’s financial reporting and accounting operations. This is a critical leadership role at the enterprise level, supporting Woolpert’s continued global growth and operational expansion. The CAO will manage the Corporate Controller, the Project Financials Group Leader, and related teams, and serve as a key steward of financial governance across all business lines.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

As a Chief Accounting Officer at Woolpert, you will:

• Lead and develop the global accounting function, ensuring compliance with GAAP and internal financial policies.
• Oversee the close calendar, general ledger, and consolidated financial statements for accuracy and timeliness.
• Manage the Corporate Controller and Project Financials Group Leader, as well as other direct reports across accounting operations.
• Ensure strong internal controls, audit readiness, and compliance across geographies and sectors.
• Serve as the primary liaison with external auditors, coordinating annual audits and managing technical accounting issues.
• Guide accounting policy decisions, oversee technical memos, and ensure accounting treatment supports complex business arrangements, including acquisitions.
• Drive integration of new financial solutions into Woolpert’s ERP ecosystem and lead ongoing updates to support evolving business needs.
• Standardize and scale accounting practices across international entities to support growth and M&A.
• Partner with the finance, tax, legal, and compliance functions to align accounting with broader business strategy.
  
  

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in accounting and financial leadership roles, preferably in AEG, engineering, construction, or professional services industries.
• Demonstrated success leading accounting operations in a global, multi-entity organization.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP; experience with IFRS is a plus.
• Proven ability to manage audits, internal controls, and cross-border financial compliance.
• Experience with ERP systems and technology integration in a growth-oriented environment.
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
  
  

Unique Benefits

This executive role includes a competitive compensation package reflective of experience and impact. Woolpert offers comprehensive benefits, performance-based incentives, and participation in its employee ownership program. Full compensation details will be discussed during the interview process.

Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) companies in the world. With over 60 offices and countless projects around the globe, Woolpert makes a real difference at home and abroad. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

• Diverse experiences: Work on meaningful projects that improve quality of life around the world.
• Freedom to work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Flexible vacation
• Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
• Paid sick time, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more: Choose the benefits that work best for you.
  
  

Level up your career with Woolpert. Apply today and join our team to help shape the future of tomorrow!

Why Woolpert?

Woolpert is looking for supportive, goal-oriented, and career-minded individuals who are, or are looking to become, industry leaders in their fields. We blend design excellence with innovative technology and geospatial applications to deliver exceptional value to our clients. When you join us, you'll join a team of experts who are passionate about their work and dedicated to building the next generation of industry leaders. Woolpert embraces progress and innovation, creating limitless opportunities for your career growth.

Our vision: http://woolpert.com/about-us/

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

Posted Salary Range

USD $200,000.00 - USD $275,000.00 /Yr.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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