Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Lead and support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, including preparation and review of journal entries, accruals, adjustments, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain and review general ledger activity for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Prepare internal and external financial statements, management reports, and variance analyses to support business decision-making.
• Analyze financial results, research account activity, identify trends and variances, and communicate findings and recommendations to management.
• Oversee and perform accounts payable and accounts receivable functions, including invoice processing, payment preparation, billing, collections, account coding, and reconciliations.
• Review payroll records, timecards, labor distribution reports, prepaid expenses, accruals, fixed assets, and depreciation schedules for accuracy and completeness.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, cash management, and other financial planning activities through analysis and reporting.
• Prepare audit schedules and supporting documentation and coordinate information requests for internal, external, customer, and government audits.
• Support government contract accounting activities, including contract cost accumulation, labor charging, timekeeping, billing, and financial reporting.
• Maintain proper segregation of direct costs, indirect costs, and unallowable costs within the accounting system and chart of accounts.
• Review contract costs for allowability, allocability, and reasonableness in accordance with contract requirements, company policies, and applicable government contracting regulations.
• Accumulate and reconcile costs by contract, task order, project, and cost objective to support accurate job-cost accounting and reporting.
• Maintain and reconcile indirect cost pools, including fringe, overhead, and General & Administrative (G&A) expenses, and assist with indirect rate calculations and reconciliations.
• Support billing and revenue recognition activities for various contract types, including Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP), Time-and-Materials (T&M), and Cost-Reimbursement contracts, as applicable.
• Reconcile contract-related accounts, including billed and unbilled receivables, project costs, contract revenue, and funding balances.
• Prepare and maintain records, reconciliations, and supporting documentation necessary to ensure audit readiness and compliance with contract and regulatory requirements.
• Assist with the implementation, enhancement, and maintenance of the accounting and timekeeping systems to support government contract accounting, reporting, internal controls, and audit trail requirements.
• Develop and improve accounting procedures, internal controls, documentation standards, and workflow efficiencies.
• Support tax compliance activities, including 1099 reporting, sales tax filings, and other business tax requirements, as assigned.
• Collaborate with Operations, Human Resources, Contracts, and Program Management teams to support accurate financial reporting and resolve accounting or contract-related issues.
• Provide guidance, training, and technical support to Staff Accountants and Junior Staff Accountants.
• Review and approve journal entries, reconciliations, schedules, and workpapers prepared by accounting staff and serve as a resource for complex accounting matters.
• Protect confidential company, employee, customer, contract, and financial information.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field.
• Minimum of six years of progressively responsible accounting or finance experience, including general ledger, financial reporting, reconciliations, and close activities.
• Minimum of six years’ experience supporting government-contract accounting requirements, indirect cost structures, billing, timekeeping, and contract compliance.
• Experience applying FAR cost principles and supporting DCAA accounting system or audit requirements.
• Proficiency with QuickBooks, including general ledger, transaction processing, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, internal controls, and core accounting processes.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and working proficiency with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
• Experience reviewing the work of others and providing day-to-day guidance or training to accounting staff.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work remotely and attend in-person meetings when business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field.
• Experience with Oracle NetSuite, Deltek Costpoint, Unanet, or another government contracting ERP system.
• Relevant professional certifications.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

• Government contracting accounting and compliance awareness
• Financial reporting, general ledger accounting, reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, and fixed assets
• QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel proficiency
• Analytical thinking, research, and problem-solving
• Accuracy, attention to detail, and sound judgment
• Organization, prioritization, accountability, and follow-through
• Confidentiality and information management
• Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to coach and support accounting team members
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new systems and processes

Security and Credentialing Requirements

• Successful completion of a background investigation, as required by company requirements.

Physical Requirements

• Continuously: communicate and exchange information using a computer, telephone, and virtual meeting technology.
• Frequently: remain in a stationary position and perform repetitive keyboard and computer work.
• Occasionally: move within an office or meeting location and carry typical office materials weighing up to 10 pounds.
• Occasionally: travel locally or to another designated location for in-person meetings, training, or business needs.

Work Environment

Benefits Package