Financial Controller-CPA (Govt contracting experience required)

Position: Financial Controller

Location: Hybrid (Frederick, MD or Tampa, FL)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Description:

The Controller is accountable for the accounting operations of the company, including the production of periodic financial reports, maintenance of an adequate system of accounting records, and a comprehensive set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of the company’s reported financial results, and ensure that reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The Controller is also responsible for cash management and risk management, tax planning with an outside tax accountant, and paying estimated taxes for all LLC’s.

What You Will Do:

Management

1. Maintains and enforces a documented system of accounting policies and procedures.

2. Manage outsourced functions.

3. Oversee the operations of the accounting department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department’s goals and objectives, as the company grows in the future.

4. Oversee the accounting operations of subsidiary corporations or affiliated companies, especially their control systems, transaction-processing operations, and policies and procedures.

5. Oversee a team of other accounting professionals, including their optimal work performance, and train them for higher efficiency and productivity

Transactions

1. Ensure that accounts payable are paid in a timely manner.

2. Ensure that all reasonable discounts are taken on accounts payable.

3. Ensure that accounts receivable are collected promptly.

4. Process payroll in a timely manner.

5. Ensure that periodic bank reconciliations are completed on a regular basis.

6. Ensure that required debt payments are made on a timely basis.

7. Maintain the chart of accounts.

8. Maintain an orderly accounting filing system.

9. Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions.

10. Manage time and labor system.

11. Calculation of Indirect rates.

12. Forward rate calculation.

Reporting

1. Issue timely and complete financial statements.

2. Coordinate the preparation of the corporate annual report.

3. Recommend benchmarks against which to measure the performance of company operations.

4. Calculate and issue financial and operating metrics.

5. Manage the production of the annual budget and forecasts.

6. Calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to management.

7. Provide for a system of management cost reports.

8. Provide financial analyses as needed, in particular for capital investments, pricing decisions, and contract negotiations.

9. DCAA compliance, forward rates, indirect rates reporting.

Compliance

1. Conduct internal audits controls, including proper bookkeeping for external audits.

2. Coordinate the provision of information to external auditors for the annual audit.

3. Monitor debt levels and compliance with debt covenants.

4. Comply with local, state, and federal government registrations, reporting requirements and tax filings.

5. Manage worker compensation audit functions with HR team

Requirements

What We Need:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration, or equivalent business experience
• Minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience for a major government contracting company or division of a large government contractor corporation
• DCAA & GAAP experience.
• Deltek Costpoint and QuickBooks experience.
• Active CPA license a must.