Assistant Controller
$110,000–$140,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Conduct monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closes for multiple subsidiaries in accordance with US GAAP. Oversee project accounting activities for government contracts, including cost tracking, billing, revenue recognition, and margin analysis. Manage shared-services and home-office accounting, intercompany transactions, and reconciliation processes. Lead audit execution and support financial statement, tax, and regulatory reviews. Prepare and oversee annual Incurred Cost Submissions with supporting reconciliations and adequacy documentation. Maintain internal controls and improve accounting policies to ensure compliance with GAAP, FAR, and CAS. Supervise and mentor up to 3-5 employees across accounting and project accounting functions. Partner with finance and operations leaders to enhance reporting quality and audit readiness. Support budgeting, forecasting, and indirect rate management for leadership decision-making. Work in a fully remote environment with up to 10% travel.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience
- significant experience in federal government contracting
- Strong experience with multi-entity accounting
- intercompany transactions
- consolidated financial reporting
- Demonstrated experience leading DCAA audits
- supporting other audits from planning through resolution
- Direct experience preparing and submitting Incurred Cost Submissions/Indirect Cost
- Proposals, including related reconciliations and adequacy support
- Strong knowledge of project accounting
- indirect rates
- FAR
- CAS
- government contract compliance requirements
- Prior experience supervising accounting and/or project accounting staff
- Ability to work effectively in a fully remote environment
- collaborate across multiple entities and functions
- Excellent attention to detail
- analytical skills
- time management
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- industry-standard capture and proposal management tools
- Must be able to work during EST core business hours
- Extended hours will be required during training and payroll processing days
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines under tight timelines
- Professional proficiency in English
- Ability to pass a federal background investigation including fingerprinting
- credit check will be conducted as part of the pre-employment process
- Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
- PQT Ayaquhs LLC will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
- Must be able to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time
- Ability to sit, stand, talk, and hear
- Employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to operate a computer
- 0-10% / Minimal travel
- Preference will be given to qualified Native Americans and spouses
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with JAMIS ERP
- Experience with Deltek Costpoint
- Experience with Tribal or Alaska Native entity owned accounting
- BI/Cognos report writing skills
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