Oldsmar, FL, USA | Operations | Full Time
| Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Paid Time Off, and the list goes on!
Job Title: Defense Account Manager
Place of Performance: Remote position
Remote hours may be performed in one of the following states only: Florida, Virginia.
Job Summary:
Cipher Tech is seeking an experienced full-time defense accountant and contracts specialist to join our growing finance team. We are looking for an extremely proficient computer user who has specific bookkeeping experience using QuickBooks Online. Applicants must have at least 5 years of experience working within a defense contractor and have a thorough understanding of Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) accounting practices for cost-@type contracts.
The Defense Accounting and Contracts Specialist will join an existing part-time bookkeeping and payroll team and execute and manage the closing process across all facets of corporate accounting to include QuickBooks - G/L, Banking, AR, and AP roles. Additionally, this employee will be responsible for financial contract management, tracking ceiling/funding burn-rates, and requesting and negotiating contract mods with the support of the owners, legal, existing bookkeepers, and outside financial consultants.
Duties/Responsibilities:
Accounting
Become familiar with the tasks of our existing bookkeepers, augment the team, and eliminate redundancies in the areas of QuickBooks - G/L, Banking, AR, AP and payroll.
Oversee the other bookkeepers to ensure seamless customer invoicing, transaction posting, report generation, payroll and expense classification.
Oversee to those preparing and processing bi-weekly payroll
Oversee to those who prepare recurring payroll journal entries using established templates
Reconcile company time data with Prime Contractor time data used to generate invoices, as needed.
Assist with finance-related HR activities (i.e. creating payroll accounts for onboarding employees, reconciling medical deductions with our benefits platform and handling mid-year qualifying event changes), preparing OFCCP salary reports.
Preliminarily review of monthly financial statements and other financial information prior to final statements going to the owners, Finance Team, and CFO consultant.
Consult with outside tax accounting firms and government auditors with support of CFO consultant
Establish working relationships with administrative departments: Recruiting, Purchasing, Travel and HR as well as with program managers. Create and coordinate while maintaining management reports on a as needed basis per customer requirements - for example project profitability, productivity standards for technical staff and more.
Contracts
Manage teams with our FFP, FFP-LOE, T&M, and Cost+ prime and subcontracts (from a financial perspective).
Track ceiling, value, utilization, and POP requests and modifications.
Manage with team our subcontractors (from a financial perspective)
Work with legal to issue funding modifications to our subcontractors as it relates to ceiling, value, utilization, and POP. (secondary responsibility)
Coordinate contractual information on an as needed basis to the owners, bookkeepers, and outside consultants' information about the above on an as needed basis.
Review and update contracts policies and procedures.
Consult with DCAA and other outside consultants as needed for contractual financial matters.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities:
Must be a US Citizen (no exceptions).
Must have held a US Government security clearance (Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret) within the past 10 years and be willing to have that clearance re-activated and/or be willing to be cleared.
Must possess outstanding organizational skills and pay extreme attention to detail.
Must maintain availability to enter data for review on a schedule requirement basis.
Must be familiar with defense contract / subcontract management
Must be proficient with QuickBooks Online
Must be proficient with using technology to include VPNs, Remote Desktop, Outlook/Excel, secure computing practices, etc.
Must possess a fundamental understanding of DCAA accounting principles for cost-@type contracts.
Must possess a fundamental understanding of how Defense and Intelligence rate-buildups work.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or another related field or comparable experience
Must have 5+ years' experience with required responsibilities as defined.
Benefits:
Mission focused work environment
Subsidized medical/dental/vision insurance
HSA contributions
401k matching
Holiday and Paid Time Off (PTO)
Monthly WAN parties & quarterly events
View this and more at: www.ciphertechsolutions.com/careers/perks-benefits/
About Us:
At Cipher Tech Solutions, Inc. (Cipher Tech), we take great pride in supporting some of the most mission critical work in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. The majority of our company is comprised of extremely talented software developers who write production tools which directly support one of two missions: digital forensics and malware reverse engineering.
Digital forensics is the practice of extracting and processing evidence from computers, phones, tablets, cameras, flash-drives, and just about any other form of digital media. The results of our work are then used to support federal and military law enforcement, counterintelligence, and counter terrorist activities.
Malware reverse engineering is the practice of analyzing malicious code. The goal of a reverse engineer is to understand how the malicious code works and determine facts such as:
How did it infect the victim's computer What kind of information it is seeking to steal How is it communicating with the author (actor) Who that actor might be.
Vaccination Notice:
Please be aware that you are applying for a position to work as a federal contractor. As such, Cipher Tech will require, and your employment will be subject to, such vaccinations as are required by federal, state, and local law requirements.
Important Security Clearance Information:
Be aware that you are applying for a job that requires a U.S. Government Security Clearance. If you do not already hold a US government security clearance, we do have the ability to sponsor, however be advised that this can be a multi-year process.
The U.S. government will not issue security clearances to recent users of illegal drugs. On your application to us, you must acknowledge that you have not engaged in any illegal drug use within the past twelve months (illegal drug use includes, but is not limited to, the use of illegal substances, the misuse of prescriptions, the misuse of over-the-counter substances, and the use of medical or recreational marijuana that may be deemed legal at the state level but is still considered illegal by the federal government). NOTE: CIPHER TECH WILL NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY QUALIFIED APPLICANTS WITH A DISABILITY, INCLUDING ILLEGAL DRUG USERS WHO HAVE RECENTLY SOUGHT PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT FOR A DRUG PROBLEM.--
Cipher Tech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All hiring and employment decisions are made on the basis of business requirements, performance, and merit with no regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, or other protected status.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
