Our client is currently recruiting for the position of a full-time, Remote Senior Staff Accountant to support management with the financial aspects of running the company.

Assignment of Work and Travel:

This is a remote access assignment. Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access systems and therein use approved client provided communications systems. Regular travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend offsite meetings as requested.  

Description:

The Senior Staff Accountant will assist in planning the business’s financial operations, as well as mind the company ledger while working with executive management to create and control budgets. The Senior Staff Accountant will also be responsible for ensuring that actual business activities are in line with the organization’s plans by providing management with detailed, monthly financial reports.

Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):

·        Setting up prepaid and deferred revenue accounts

·        Balance sheet account reconciliations, monthly bank reconciliations, monthly credit card reconciliations

·        Preparing ad hoc financial analysis reports for executive team

·        Prepare and maintain the corporate budget, project budgets and cash forecast

·        Preparing monthly invoices to the client

·        Review and post expense reports, vendor invoices and process vendor payments

·        Review and process annual 1099s

·        Conversion of books from accrual to cash

·        Interfacing with various auditors and tax preparers

·        Financial statement preparation, including balance sheet and profit and loss, for review and presentation

·        Setting up and managing people and projects in Unanet, including project burn reports

·        Should have experience managing payroll process, from timesheet screening and expense reimbursement to ultimate processing of payroll, review tax remittances, monthly/quarterly reconciliation of payroll reports, and year-end W2 review.

·        Will prepare and review journal entries to record unbilled receivables, prepaid expenses, accruals, depreciation, and other entries to assist in monthly financialclose.

·        Candidate will interpret results of transactions and communicate necessary actions needed to comply with accounting standards and business procedures

·        Ensures financial standards, and legal requirements are met and managed forcompliance

·        Proficiency in Microsoft Excel required

·        Should be ready to start immediately

·        Other duties as assigned

Requirements: 

·        Direct experience in general accounting, reporting and managing the close process

·        Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Accounting

·        Knowledge and understanding of accounting theory, policies, practices/procedures

·        3 years of recent experience with Unanet financials required

·        Experience processing payroll in multiple states (Paylocity payroll experience a plus)

·        Excellent customer service and organization

·        Ability to quickly multi-task and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment

·        Excellent verbal and written communication skills

·        Proactive and motivated self-starter

·        Ability to manipulate, analyze, and interpret data

·        Strong organizational and communication skills

·        Accuracy, attention to detail, and the ability to multi-task/prioritize tasks appropriately to meet deadlines

·        Ability to work independently to identify resources and resolve issues encountered

Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:

·        3 years of experience with government contracts and accounting (preferred)

·        Understanding of DCAA, GSA and FAR as it relates to accounting

·        Must be a self-starter with ability to work remotely as part of a team, or independently with little supervision or direction

Integration & Test Engineer 

The client is currently building a rapid innovation team, which is responsible for transforming the needs, obstacles, and visions of stakeholders into viable solutions. Measurable results will be cultivated by industry evolution, academic improvements, and government modernization efforts.

Desired Experience

The candidate will support the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) by evaluating the effectiveness and applicability of a broad range of information systems on technical matters on an as-needed basis to all task assignments. Extensive experience is desired in the following areas:

• Enterprise Architecture (EA) experience, creating roadmaps, developing long term plans for technology solutions and The Open Group Architectural Framework experience (TOGAF)
• Map mission requirements and business problems to re-usable end-to-end technology solutions
• Provide support and expertise to all facets of the EA Program
• Prepare briefings on EA for all levels of government; Prepare responses to EA PMO
• Provide support to the government liaison with external stakeholder entities, to collect and validate detailed EA data
• Design and implement the layers of the EA including technology, data, services, and business
• Publish and provide EA artifacts to the COR and TM, which include but are not limited to: EA Repository and the CIO Quarterly Roadmap
•  Identity, Credentialing, and Access Management (ICAM) solutions and shared services

• Innovation Design Concepts, Rapid Design Model(s), Iterative Design Thinking, Lean Agile and SAFeExtreme Prototyping methods
• Increasing Endpoint visibility and capability
• Developing security access to cloud-connected resources utilizing common Cloud Edge Security concepts (CASB, UCE, SASE, etc.)
• Expanding secured data access to various environments and edge devices
• Customer needs assessment commercial techniques for evaluation of satisfaction measurement/metrics tools
• Effective interpersonal skills to coordinate efforts and work with other internal and external organizations
• Direct extensive experience translating legacy desktop configurations into a mobile-connected workforce (Unified Endpoint Management, Mobile Device Management)
• Delivery of minimum viable products (MVP) in condensed timeframes
• Knowledge of Federal Law Enforcement organization concepts, networks, applications, and architectures (or DOJ, IC and DoD) including their “As-Is” and “To Be” plans
• Awareness of industry shifts and recently evolved areas of cybersecurity, network design/protocol changes, and application development
• Provide research and/or analysis as needed in support of data calls and meetings
• Develop and maintain a consolidated EA repository, using agency specific software packages
• Produce written technical cost analysis on the architectural impact of proposed IT investments
• Research and interpret guidance, regulations, and mandates to make recommendations to government personnel
• Map mission requirements and business problems to re-usable end-to-end technology solutions

Frameworks/Methodologies/Technologies/Tools

· MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

· Cloud related technologies (AWS, Azure, cloud security, CASB, UCE, SASE, etc.) 

·  IPv6

·  Automation/ML/AI Improvement

·  Zero-Trust Architecture

·  Low-Code/No-Code Development

• NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Interpreting NIST/ISO Guidelines, DISA STIG configurations, and Cyber Security policies/frameworks such as 800+ NIST 800-53 Security, 800-37 RMF procedures, 800-76 Biometric Standards, 800-63-3 Digital Identify Guidelines and Authentication, 800-14 General Security Principals, FIPS 201-2, FIPS-140-2 Requirements and Encryption, FIPS199/FedRAMP
• Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA)

General Skills

• Highly specialized in one or more phases of systems engineering and testing.  
• Evaluate the applicability of a broad range of information systems issues, including hardware/software integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms. 
• Identifies, evaluates, and specifies system architecture and high-level design. 
• Provides advice and counsel to project and senior management through broad technical specialization of scientific theory and principals. 

Required Qualifications 

• BS/BA in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Networks, or related STEM field, or other technology-related discipline.
• Must have 6+ years’ minimum relevant experience in Federal consulting
• Active Secret Clearance needed

The candidate shall provide Business Analysis support to assess, validate and document the business needs for key stakeholders. Business analysis shall be provided for various types of projects at any stage of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) or Systems Engineering Life Cycle and coordinated through the PM for support in the appropriate functional area. 

The agency uses the Agile methodology for software development life cycle and is responsible for providing Technical Liaison support to the development and engineering teams. The candidate will provide support to the Technical liaison in facilitating business and technical operational needs for stakeholders within and outside agency; prepare and provide technical artifacts; and support the Technical PM with the integrated business and technical WBS&S, and other project management artifacts and activities. The candidate shall assess, manage, track, report, streamline and support the Agile fielding of agency information technology systems and services for business and technical stakeholders. 

In support of the Agile development process, infrastructure, and engineering initiatives, the candidate shall provide business level requirements and analysis for all new and/or enhanced software application initiatives, engineering initiatives, and enhance the current Business Process Improvement (BPI) efforts to support project management and business activities. Additionally, the candidate shall define, develop, and institutionalize Business Process standards, templates, processes, procedures, diagrams, and guidelines, in particular; the business process workflow as it relates to the Agile Software development framework, SCRUM Project Management Framework, Team Foundation Server workflow, and the engineering framework using Enterprise Service Management tools.

Required Experience

The IT Process Consultant III – Business Analyst / Requirements Support role shall provide business and technical support as described in the following areas:

• Enhancing the quality of products and services through feedback, mentoring, and continual process improvement
• Providing support in defining, developing, and institutionalizing standards to ensure consistent and measurable performance across the organization
• Conducting process improvement initiatives and performing routine internal audits to ensure compliance to established standards
• Utilizing customer, industry and business trends; and apply this understanding to meet project objectives
• Validating procedures and processes with a view toward enhancement or improvement; analyze information and situations; and implement actions through the management team to ensure project objectives are met
• Providing feedback, mentoring, and training support for staff to improve processes, enhance services, prevent work product defects, and refine standards. Also, supports Special Projects/Tasking
• Identifying, defining, developing, and institutionalizing Business Process standards, templates, policies, processes, and guidelines in support of as related to Agile Software development framework, Scrum Project Management framework and Team Foundation Server workflow. Also, maintain legacy process and procedures for projects using the waterfall approach
• Providing analytical, planning, and implementation support services for performance measurement, metrics analysis, and process improvement of Projects and Programs as well as support in the preparation and presentation of technical, management, and operational briefings, data calls, and reports
• Providing experience and expertise in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) implementation and reporting; in developing and implementing IT chargeback models for data centers; and in developing and marketing IT enterprise wide support services
• Providing Business Analysis support to assess, validate and document the business needs for key stakeholders. Business analysis shall be provided for various types of projects at any stage of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) or Systems Engineering Life Cycle and coordinated through the PM for support in the appropriate functional area. 
• Using the Agile methodology for software development life cycle and is responsible for providing Technical Liaison support to the development and engineering teams. 
• Providing support to the Technical liaison in facilitating business and technical operational needs for stakeholders within and outside agency; prepare and provide technical artifacts; and support the Technical PM with the integrated business and technical WBS&S, and other project management artifacts and activities. 
• Assessing, managing, tracking, reporting, streamlining, and supporting the Agile fielding of agency information technology systems and services for business and technical stakeholders. 
• Working with the Government PM to refine scope and coordinate with agency components and stakeholders for project information. 
• Providing business and technical support as described in the following subparagraphs.
• Developing, analyzing, maintaining, and conducting business analysis, business needs assessments and documentation for development, enhancements, and custom development services as prioritized by management via a Project Analysis Worksheet (PAW).
• Preparing prepare the business analysis and needs assessments in the form of Epics and User Stories, Course of Action (COA), Initial PAW Review Document (IPRD), System Information Package (SIP), workflow diagrams, surveys, tables, charts, spreadsheets or the most appropriate documentation format required to demonstrate and satisfy the high-level business requirements.
• Working closely with Project Managers and stakeholders to document context and scope; assist in the identification of the non-functional needs such as project/service criticality, approach, risks and constraints; personnel, infrastructure resource and privacy requirements; business process impact and dependencies; system performance and availability
• Facilitating stakeholder sessions to analyze, understand and document the business functional needs; provide recommendations for stakeholder business improvements to include potential system interfaces; document other pertinent information that would improve stakeholder functional services; and coordinate and facilitate strategic business decisions. 
• All documented analysis must follow agency standard templates and guidelines.

Tools

• MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Microsoft Office Visio 
• Microsoft Office Project 
• MS SharePoint 
• MS Power BI
• ServiceNow

General Skills

• Providing Weekly and Monthly Status Reporting
• Providing meeting support (facilitate meetings, prepare agenda, prepare project briefings, present to the stakeholders, document, and distribute meeting minutes, and track actions)
• Support other PMO tasks as assigned
• Flexibility is a must, as well as the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to coordinate multiple work streams, multi-task and work well under tight deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven experience in building partnerships with business and technical stakeholders as applicable
• Self-starter with ability to perform and lead work independently.
• Participate in project planning and schedule development/maintenance activities
  

 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (BS/BA in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Physical Science, or other technology-related discipline)
• Minimum 6 years in:
  • Using Information Technology based applications to implement process improvement and reengineering methodologies to client business processes. Duties may include: 
  • Data analysis and data modeling activities 
  • Developing improvements to business methods on IT related projects  
  • Transition planning introduction, and integration of new IT processes  
  • Group facilitation and training for newly implemented IT processes 
  • Act as key coordinator between multiple process stakeholders and project.
• Must have a minimum of Secret Clearance

Under the direct supervision of the Chief Financial Officer, this position will work closely with Corporate finance leaders, business and technology teams, and the 8 operating businesses. This highly motivated, strategic, innovative and results oriented manager will lead a team of Financial Application Analysts. This position will partner with all levels of management in order to successfully execute on
transformational initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Directly support Chief Financial Officer and VP of Company-Wide Systems and IT Controls to research and implement systems and processes that translate strategic initiatives into practice, leveraging the financial systems to capture and report critical metrics for use by corporate leadership
• Conduct financial systems due diligence reviews of prospective acquisitions, working closely with CFO, VP of Company-Wide Systems & IT Controls and other subject matter experts to Design, map, plan, migrate, validate and test transition of target’s systems into Costpoint, ADP Workforce Now, Concur, Planning Analytics, etc.
• Supervise team responsible for administrating, maintaining and managing Deltek Costpoint and Cognos tools, including updates, maintenance, account provisioning and SOX audits
o Support business unit finance teams with forecasting process
o Develop and maintain complex monthly financial package reports through Cognos TM1 Perspectives
o Develop and validate operational and financial reports to support business process
efficiencies across all areas of business, finance, manufacturing, human resources,
payroll, contracts, procurement, etc.
o Maintain and deliver end user training for Cognos Report Studio and Cognos TM1 Perspectives
o Create customized reporting model frameworks to better support reporting across disparate data sources and access segregation
o Administrate and maintain the Cognos Business Intelligence servers and software
ensuring a current, secure, healthy environment including disaster recovery and
development environments
• Manage and implement software upgrades through planning, installation, validation, testing, end user testing, integration testing, and documentation to go-live
• Develop curriculum and training tools and conduct live and remote training to support new users to Costpoint, Time & Expense, Cognos Analytics, Planning Analytics, and other business processes
Skills:
• Define, evaluate, budget, manage, track and adjust short and long term interdependent cross functional projects through achievable planning, measurable milestones and risk management
• Effectively translate executive level strategic initiatives into financial system
implementations and integrations and drive updates to business processes through to end users
• Analyze end user issues to find common themes and or trends, leading to efficiencies and synergies to improve productivity
o Map business processes to document the existing state including owners, decision
makers, subject matter experts and systems in the context of time, location and
effort
o Identify system driven efficiency opportunities
o Redefine and fully document business process with subject matter experts,
including training, reporting and analytics and validation
o Create training documentation and/or videos
• Consistently establish a collaborative work environment that focuses on identifying and leveraging team member strengths while defining a path to draw out and enrich new talents
• Preference for a model-based approach wherein all team members are active participants in the process; leaders should model the actions they want to elicit from the team
• Highly organized with clear concise communication skills
• Flexible and creative; able to adjust to new scenarios and priorities
• Curriculum development for corporate training, especially for end user software and business process implementation
• Easily acquires new software skills
Systems and Applications
Enterprise Resource Planning Applications
o Deltek Costpoint (includes Core, People, Materials Management, Reporting and Time & Expense)
o Manufacturing and/or services industry experience preferred
Business Intelligence Software
o IBM Cognos Analytics Administration, Configuration, Framework Manager, and Report Studio (Formerly Cognos Business Intelligence)
o IBM Planning Analytics Administration, Development, Perspectives (Formerly Cognos TM1)
Related Financial Systems (Experience with the following systems a plus)
o Concur
o ADP Workforce Now
o Salesforce
o SharePoint
Database Management
o Oracle
o Microsoft SQL server
Project Management
o Microsoft Project
Requirements:
• A minimum of experience leading business and technology teams
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferred in Information Technology or Business
o 10+ years of experience with Deltek in a manufacturing industry in lieu of degree may be accepted
• Related certifications preferred
• Flexibility of hours to provide support on off business hours as required

Under the direct supervision of the Sr. Manager Financial Systems Applications, this position will work closely with the Financial Systems team and Corporate finance leaders.
Responsibilities:
• Ensure new employees are provisioned with seats and create user accounts in Costpoint.
• Support business unit managers in maintaining their charge trees by guiding them in the process and helping troubleshoot issues in Costpoint
• Resolve business unit trouble tickets with Costpoint internally whenever possible and escalate trouble tickets to Deltek for support when needed.
• Serve as liaison between Comtech and Deltek for all trouble tickets that require escalation to their service team
• Manage and respond to the tickets, test resolutions in a test environment whenever possible, and communicate back to the business units with a solution or work around
• Work with Deltek when defects are identified to test and resolve
• Compile and test, where possible, select scripts or run queries to resolve database issues. Verify the scripts yield the desired result. Get approval to execute the scripts in production and manage the DBA’s execution. Validate the results and document/archive should a transaction require additional review or be selected for audit.
• Maintain and manage reporting for Monthly Financial Package (MFP) in TM1
• Support user access provisioning and deprovisioning in Costpoint
• Manage TM1 user access provisioning/deprovisioning
• Support the review of Cognos security groups, and directory security, and
provision/deprovision user access
• Assist in the creation of new Cognos reports including matching the report to business requirements, building the report, validation, and end user review/change requests.
• Assist in existing report evaluation, troubleshooting, upgrades and validation in Cognos.
• Help initiate and manage system access reviews annually for Costpoint, Cognos and Time & Expense. Manage any changes resulting from the reviews. Compile and archive all documentation and approvals.
• Help with the execution of testing of the updates and patches in the financial systems and documenting testing results to demonstrate the objectives of the update pass.
• Help manage the Company Wide Financial systems tickets for all users
Skills:
• Must be proficient in SQL and Oracle query languages in order to query data from
various business systems.
• Must be proficient in excel to mine, analyze, and present data.
Systems and Applications
Enterprise Resource Planning Applications (experience with these applications are required)
o Deltek Costpoint (includes Core, People, Materials Management, Reporting and Time & Expense)
o IBM Cognos Analytics Administration, Configuration, Framework Manager, and Report Studio (Formerly Cognos Business Intelligence)
Related Financial Systems
o Concur
o ADP Workforce Now
o Salesforce
o SharePoint
Database Management
o Oracle
o Microsoft SQL server
Project Management
o Microsoft Project
Requirements:
• A minimum three (3) to five (5) years of experience supporting financial systems applications
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferred Management Information Systems or equivalent
experience/certifications
• Flexibility of hours to provide support on off business hours as required