Who we are

At McConnell Jones, we aim to be a catalyst for positive growth fostering an environment where unique perspectives come together to enhance client solutions. As one of the top 3 largest African American owned CPA firms, we pride ourselves on the quality of our work, the tenure of our clients, and our own diversity—nearly two-thirds of our people are from an ethnically diverse background. The diversity of our people empowers the diversity of our client solutions, as captured by the firm’s tagline, Diverse Thinking | Unique Perspectives.

Our Mission: To foster an environment where unique perspectives come together to enhance client solutions.

Our Vision: To be a catalyst for positive growth through the power of diverse thinking.

Our Values: Creativity, Inclusion, Transparency, Accountability

Position can be based anywhere in U.S. EST or CST time zone. Preference is Houston or Austin, TX based.

What you will do

Join our strategy and operations consulting practice! McConnell Jones is a well-established and nationally recognized, accounting, business consulting, and advisory firm. We are business, consulting and accounting experts who specialize in solving problems, reducing risk and improving business performance - and we do it all with a level of expertise unparalleled in our field. Formulated from years of proven expertise and extensive experience with a wide range of business and organizational challenges, our consulting practice offers solutions to help our clients operate more efficiently and cost effectively.

In this role, you will work with a variety of industries and clients. You will apply your analytical and critical thinking skills to fully understand a client’s current processes, benchmark against best practices, create a gap analysis and provide improvement recommendations. Your process mapping skills, abilities to diagram process flow charts and your strong writing skills will be valuable in presenting solutions. This is an excellent time to join our consulting team as we’re expanding and you can grow with us!

TECHNICAL

• Lead planning and implementation of consulting projects
• Facilitate project scope, goals and deliverables
• Manage project evaluations and assessment of project results
• Manage departmental budgets
• Analyze data, specific business needs, and business scenarios to dictate best outcome
• Possess strong interview, note taking, and data analysis skills
• Define project tasks and resource requirements
• Develop, plan and schedule project timelines
• Provide advice, suggestions, direction, and support to project team
• Develop and maintain relationships with client management

PROJECTS

• Develop comprehensive plans to ensure timely, successful completion of specific projects
• Ensure projects comply with company strategy and goals
• Plan, schedule, monitor, and control project timelines
• Manage and evaluate project staff
• Oversee projects being led by intermediate level staff
• Prepare status reports defining project progress, next steps, issues, and solutions
• Provide constructive feedback to staff
• Nurture and maintain relationship with clients throughout the business year
• Promote effective quality assurance in own work and that of others

BUSINESS

• Contribute to business area assessment and business design
• Become a primary source of subject matter expertise for MJ and their clients with relative technical focus
• Proven experience in people management
• Make associations to develop new business
• Contribute to client market development
• Work with Director and team to grow practice
• As part of our compliance program, all team members are required to follow industry leading data and system security practices.

What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or other discipline
• Experience in project management, consulting, customer interaction.
• 8+ years of consulting and project management experience delivering professional services in multiple industries, and business sectors including commercial services, healthcare, financial services, energy, technology, manufacturing state and local government, and K-12 through Higher Education.
• Knowledge of the theoretical and practical aspects of project management
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Business results focus
• Expert ability to lead and influence staff
• Possess intermediate knowledge of and ability to work with Microsoft Word and Excel
• Possess ability to write reports clearly and effectively
• Possess effective verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel

What we prefer

• MBA or advanced degree
• PMP certification

What we offer

• Generous PTO.
• 11 paid company holidays with 3 floating.
• Stipend reimbursement for home office equipment, cell phone and internet.
• Medical plan with HSA employer contribution, Dental, Vision available 1st of the month after start date.
• Company paid Long Term Disability.
• Company paid Life Insurance.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• 401k with company match up to 4% and 100% vested from day one.
• Certification Reimbursement program.
• CPA exam review benefit with Becker CPA.
• Employee Referral bonus opportunities from $1,000 to $5,000 per hired referral.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

McConnell & Jones is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer that does not discriminate in employment and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or status as a qualified individual with a disability or Vietnam era or other protected veteran. McConnell & Jones policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. To achieve our goal of equal opportunity, we maintain an affirmative action program through which we take good faith efforts to recruit, hire and advance in employment-qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, and other protected veterans.