Staff Accountant

Overview

This Staff Accountant role supports day-to-day accounting operations, maintains accurate financial records, executes month-end close procedures, and ensures overall compliance with GAAP. The position helps maintain the integrity of the general ledger and supports timely, accurate financial reporting for federal programs.

Responsibilities

• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies.
• Support preparation of accurate and timely financial statements and management reports.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, organizational policies, government contracting requirements, and applicable regulatory standards.
• Support DCAA audits and financial statement audits by preparing schedules and documentation.
• Maintain the fixed assets ledger, depreciation schedules, and prepaid expenses.
• Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and project accounting functions as needed.
• Record and reconcile intercompany labor, shared service, and overhead allocations.
• Prepare monthly intercompany reconciliations.
• Assist with consolidation and elimination entries between affiliated entities.
• Ensure timely settlement of intercompany balances.
• Reconcile payroll, benefits, taxes, and labor distributions.
• Support labor transfers and project labor adjustments.
• Review timesheet compliance and process labor.
• Maintain supporting documentation for financial transactions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of government contracting financial structures, cost accounting, and compliance requirements.
• Understand and apply generally accepted accounting principles and reporting standards, including payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash receipts, and general ledger.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate financial data and records to support business operations and decision-making.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal, and technical communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across organizational levels and communicate complex financial information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to self-motivate and be proactive in exercising sound judgment, solving complex problems, managing competing priorities, and performing effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• High degree of sensitivity regarding confidential information.
• Sufficient fine motor skills for use of computers and calculators and the ability to withstand repetitive keyboarding for extended periods.
• Visual and communication abilities adequate to perform essential job functions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; Master’s degree in applicable field preferred.
• At least one year in government contracting or public accounting.
• Current CPA or CMA certification, or active progress toward obtaining a CPA or CMA certification (strongly preferred).
• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed to support project deadlines, deployments, outages, and critical business needs.
• Must have ability to pass a background screening.
• Must be U.S. Citizen.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in an applicable field.
• Active progress toward obtaining a CPA or CMA certification.

Compensation & Benefits

Eligible employees receive paid holidays, paid time off, a 401k with employer match, dental and vision, health insurance plans through the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program, and life and disability benefits.

Work Authorization / Compliance

• This employer participates in E-Verify. Information from each new employee’s Form I-9 is used to confirm work authorization.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The employer provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, age, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, handicap or disability, genetics, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic, and adheres to federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws.

Reasonable Accommodation

Reasonable accommodations are provided in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), requests for accommodations to apply for a position may be submitted according to applicable procedures.