Job Description
The Opportunity
8020 Consulting is seeking a strong Accounting Professional (Manager or above) to join our growing Los Angeles Team. This opportunity is ideal for someone who combines deep accounting expertise with construction industry experience and strong systems, ERP, and implementation capabilities.
As a full-time consultant, you’ll serve as a trusted advisor to CFOs, Controllers, private equity sponsors, and executive leadership teams, helping clients solve complex accounting, finance, and operational challenges.
The ideal candidate is someone who can step into an organization, quickly understand its accounting environment, identify opportunities for improvement, and lead both the accounting function and the systems/process transformation needed to support growth.
Projects are matched to your expertise and designed to stretch your skills while delivering meaningful impact—without the need for extensive travel.
Examples of Recent Engagements
- Serving as an interim Controller or senior accounting leader for a growing construction or project-based organization
- Leading accounting transformations for construction, engineering, contracting, and other project-driven businesses
- Improving month-end close, financial reporting, and accounting processes across multi-entity organizations
- Strengthening job costing, WIP, project accounting, and financial reporting processes
- Leading ERP implementations, accounting system conversions, and finance technology initiatives
- Evaluating existing accounting systems and recommending improvements, integrations, and automation opportunities
- Managing system implementations from requirements gathering and vendor selection through configuration, testing, data migration, training, and go-live
- Standardizing accounting processes and controls across multiple entities, business units, or projects
- Supporting acquisitions, integrations, and carve-outs, including accounting system and process integration
- Partnering with operations and project teams to improve financial visibility, reporting, and business processes
- Advising CFOs and executive leadership on accounting operations, systems strategy, process improvement, and scalability
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 7+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, with experience at the Manager, Senior Manager, Controller, Assistant Controller, or similar level
- Significant construction industry experience required, preferably within construction, general contracting, specialty contracting, engineering, or other project-based businesses
- Strong understanding of construction accounting, including job costing, WIP, project accounting, revenue recognition, and financial reporting
- Demonstrated experience leading accounting teams and partnering with operational and executive leadership
- Strong ERP/accounting systems experience, with the ability to evaluate systems, identify gaps, and drive improvements
- Proven experience with ERP implementations, accounting system conversions, integrations, or major system upgrades
- Experience leading or supporting finance and accounting process improvement and transformation initiatives
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, month-end close, financial reporting, internal controls, and accounting operations
- Ability to work hands-on in complex or evolving environments and quickly establish structure, processes, and priorities
- Strong analytical, project management, communication, and problem-solving skills
- CPA or other relevant professional designation preferred, but not required
Why Join 8020?
- Do challenging, varied work without changing jobs
- Be part of a culture that values your expertise and respects your contributions
- Collaborate closely with firm leadership and high-performing peers
- Skip the politics and focus on what matters—great work and measurable impact
- See your efforts recognized, rewarded, and instrumental to company success
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive base salary with paid bench time (full-time employment, not contract)
- Performance-based bonus plans
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with employer match
- PTO, company and floating holidays
- Ongoing training, mentorship, and educational reimbursement
- Robust professional development resources
Who We Are
8020 Consulting brings deep finance and accounting expertise to clients ranging from Fortune 50 corporations to venture-backed startups. We deliver high-impact solutions across the full scope of the CFO's office from strategic analysis and process improvements to system implementations and transaction support.
Our environment is dynamic, collaborative, and built on a culture that values clear communication, intellectual curiosity, and collective success.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Los Angeles, California |
| Industry | Management Consulting Services |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Website | http://www.8020consulting.com/ |
About Company
As a company, we believe broadening the application of the tools of financial analysis and reporting to every aspect of business operations—extending the reach of finance from compliance fulfillment reporting and incrementalist budgeting activity to critical analysis of business issues—is one of the great unleveraged business opportunities of our time. We also know that there are massive productivity gaps between the top individual performers and the average, and we have engineered our company to attract and retain the best. This isn’t rhetoric, it’s fact. Our Team applies focus, objectivity and superior academic and professional credentials backed by a business model that encourages and rewards individual initiative and creativity with a mandate to leave Clients provably better at the end of each engagement.
Skills
- Accountingunmatched
- Accounting Closeunmatched
- Accounting Policiesunmatched
- Accounting Softwareunmatched
- Acquisition Integrationunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Business Processesunmatched
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)unmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Constructionunmatched
- Construction Contractsunmatched
- Construction Engineeringunmatched
- Construction Managementunmatched
- Consultingunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Data Migrationunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Financial Controlunmatched
- Financial Operationsunmatched
- Financial Reportingunmatched
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)unmatched
- Head of Financeunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Politicsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- Revenue Accountingunmatched
- Revenue Recognitionunmatched
- Startupunmatched
- Strategic Analysisunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Test Dataunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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