Accounting Manager

Overview

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, BWC Terminals is a premier provider of bulk liquid storage and logistics services to refiners, manufacturers, and distributors of bulk liquids in North America. The Company consists of 22 sites with over twenty million barrels of storage capacity, equipped to store a wide range of petroleum, chemical, renewables, and agricultural products.

• Assist the Corporate Controller in the preparation and review of consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
• Coordinate and execute corporate components of the financial close process, ensuring timely, accurate, and well‑supported results.
• Prepare financial statement schedules, disclosures, and supporting documentation for management reporting, lenders, auditors, and other external stakeholders.
• Support external audit activities by preparing audit schedules, responding to auditor inquiries, and maintaining audit‑ready documentation.
• Assist the Corporate Controller with technical accounting research and documentation related to complex accounting matters, including acquisitions, divestitures, leases, capital projects, debt arrangements, and other non‑routine transactions.
• Play a key role in financial, accounting, and operational due diligence related to M&A activity, including analysis of historical financial statements, quality‑of‑earnings support, accounting policy assessments, and integration planning.
• Assist with preparing accounting position memoranda, purchase accounting analyses, and post‑transaction accounting support.
• Support implementation of new accounting standards and updates to accounting policies and procedures.
• Prepare debt covenant calculations, compliance certificates, and related supporting schedules in accordance with credit agreements and lending requirements.
• Coordinate with Treasury and the Corporate Controller to ensure timely and accurate completion of lender reporting and compliance deliverables.
• Maintain documentation supporting covenant calculations and debt‑related accounting conclusions.
• Support accounting for capital projects and fixed assets, including construction‑in‑progress tracking, capitalization, placed‑in‑service determinations, and depreciation.
• Prepare analyses related to capital expenditures and capital project activity for management review.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering and Construction to ensure capital project activity is properly authorized, classified, recorded, and supported.
• Oversee accounting and analysis for corporate SG&A departments, ensuring expenses are properly classified, accrued, allocated, and reported.
• Prepare SG&A expense analyses, trend reviews, and variance explanations to support management review and decision‑making.
• Partner with department leaders to resolve accounting questions and ensure accurate cost center reporting.
• Assist Assistant Controllers with terminal‑level financial analysis as needed, including revenue and expense review, variance analysis, and support for cross‑terminal consistency and comparability.
• Own and manage all aspects of the accounts payable function, including invoice processing, payment execution, vendor payment maintenance, and expense coding.
• Ensure accounts payable transactions are processed accurately, timely, and in compliance with Company policies and internal control requirements.
• Establish and maintain strong AP controls, procedures, and documentation standards.
• Lead, manage, and develop accounts payable staff, including workload management, training, and performance oversight.
• Partner cross‑functionally to resolve invoice discrepancies and payment issues.
• Support the design, execution, and maintenance of internal controls over corporate accounting and accounts payable processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting, reporting, and AP processes to increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Assist with documentation and implementation of process improvements, system enhancements, and standardized procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• CPA certification required.
• 8+ years of progressive accounting…