Director of Finance and Accounting

What We Are Looking For

We're hiring a Director of Finance & Accounting to join our Ceres Environmental Services, Inc. team and become a member of the finance leadership team. This role reports to the CFO who is located at our corporate headquarters in Sarasota, FL. This role is critical to ensuring financial integrity and operational excellence across our global entities.

The Director will lead a team that is geographically dispersed and drive initiatives focused on leveraging best practices in accounting and treasury operations, system optimization. You will assess and leverage our accounting and finance global capability operations. In addition, you will ensure operational consistency across Ceres group of companies in support of operational and strategic objectives. The Director will be responsible for developing and overseeing change management plans.

Key Responsibilities:

Accounting Leadership & Financial Integrity

• Provide leadership and oversight of monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes across all entities.
• Review financial statements, balance sheet reconciliations, and management reporting for accuracy and consistency.
• Establish, standardize, and enforce accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls aligned with GAAP.
• Improve close timelines, reconciliation quality, and financial documentation.
• Ensure accounting processes are scalable, well-controlled, and audit ready.

Accounting Process Improvement & Systems

• Lead enterprise initiatives to standardize accounting processes across AP, AR, payroll, job costing, equipment costing, and intercompany accounting.
• Drive accounting improvements through ERP optimization (Vista/Trimble), system integration, and workflow automation.
• Partner with IT and Operations to improve data quality, reporting accuracy, and financial visibility.
• Oversee finance transformation initiatives to support growth and operational complexity.
• Lead change management efforts to ensure adoption of improved processes across global teams.

Global Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a globally distributed accounting and finance organization.
• Set clear performance expectations, accountability standards, and development plans.
• Mentor finance leaders and build depth within the organization.
• Foster consistency and collaboration across geographies and time zones.

Strategic & Executive Support

• Partner with the CFO on finance strategy, accounting governance, and organizational scaling.
• Support post-acquisition integration and new entity setup from an accounting and controls perspective.
• Develop dashboards and KPIs that enhance visibility into financial performance and process effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA (active or inactive)
• 15+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including leadership in multi-entity environments
• Strong technical accounting expertise and command of GAAP
• Demonstrated experience leading global teams and driving accounting standardization
• Proven success in accounting process improvement, system implementations, and change management
• ERP experience (Vista/Trimble preferred), advanced Excel skills, and exposure to BI tools (Power BI)
• Willingness to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally

Preferred Qualifications

• CMA, MAcc
• Experience in construction, environmental services, disaster recovery, or infrastructure-based organizations

Why Join Ceres?

At Ceres, you won't just have a job, you'll have a mission. Your work will directly impact the speed and strength of community recovery after disasters.

We offer:

• A collaborative, mission-driven culture.
• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
• The chance to make a lasting difference for communities.

Ceres Environmental Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, religion, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Ceres does not sponsor employmentbased visas for this position unless stated otherwise.

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