Senior Accountant

Full Time

Location

Remote

Position Overview

• Ensures that transactions are in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Responsible for account analysis and reconciliations, variance analysis, and monitoring the integrity of system generated calculations
• Interface with budget owners to provide insight into financial results by business unit, G/L account coding for purchase requisitions
• Supports audit requests
• Participates in evaluating, improving and documenting policies and procedures
• Prepares month-end close journal entries, accruals and system processes in accordance with the month-end close schedule to ensure timely reporting
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts, such as prepaids, bank accounts, IT stock and liabilities
• Manage fixed assets in Costpoint monitoring CAPEX transactions in accordance with capitalization policies and posting depreciation
• Works with registered agent on new state registrations and annual renewals and tracking state requirements
• Ensures transactions are properly coded and applied to the correct budget
• Maintains and monitors recurring journal entries
• Comprehends and troubleshoots complex accounting items such as revenue recognition, R&D costs, lease accounting and system related variances etc.
• Supports monitoring of internal controls
• Work with Procurement team to correctly apply sales tax rates for purchases
• Reviews transactions for proper support documentation and is attached to each transaction in Costpoint
• Works with and supports A/P and A/R personnel
• Prepares specific month-end reports for distribution and analysis
• Some knowledge of FAR and understands unallowable charges
• Understands cost pools and how they affect financial results
• Self-starter and detail oriented to ensure accurate financial statements

 

Required:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, finance, with 5-7 years’ experience as an Accountant, Financial Analyst or similar
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive professional accounting experience in a Federal contractor environment
• Knowledge of US GAAP
• Experience with Deltek Costpoint ERP system
• Strong Excel knowledge (formula creation, graphs, dashboards) for data analysis
• Advanced analytical skills
• Problem-solver with a solution-based attitude
• Collaborative and team player
• Experience with Cognos and report writing in a Deltek Costpoint table environment (preferred)
• Eager to provide input for process and system improvement
• Proactively report issues, concerns, results, etc. to Controller
• Willingness to “own” the general ledger and scrutinize for accuracy

 

 

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