Senior Staff Accountant

AIT•Plano, TX

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Staff Accountant will work closely with the Assistant Controller / Corporate Controller and must have cost accounting and journal entry experience. Possess an understanding of general accounting principles, financial reporting, and a working knowledge of PC-based accounting software.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or related field.
Minimum 5 years related, professional accounting and finance experience with some background in manufacturing.
Exposure to percentage-of-completion accounting is preferred.
Strong Excel experience including formulas, pivot tables and v-lookups
Strong GAAP knowledge
Can interpret financial data contained in reports and ledgers.
Performs day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
Work in a high energy, high volume, rapidly changing environment.
Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results.
Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
Ensures that decisions are made based on policies, rules and organizational directives to solve emerging problems.
Maintains confidentiality while processing and handling confidential information with discretion.
Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.
This position may require a government security clearance; you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at AIT must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1157-1158.

Nice To Haves

CPA (preferred) or pursuit of designation.

Responsibilities

Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded.
Ensure accuracy, completeness, and conformance of transaction coding to standards and policies.
Scrutinize intercompany reconciliations/eliminations to ensure data integrity
Reconcile and analyze balance sheet accounts to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and account balances are accurately stated in accordance with GAAP and Company policy.
Prepare and examine financial reports with an eye for accuracy and compliance.
Preparation of the company consolidation including foreign currency translations and intercompany eliminations.
Responsible for revenue and cost accounting on company projects. Maintain, reconcile, and analyze COGS and Revenue by project.
Maintains and balances accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
Prepare monthly financial statements, reports and records by collecting, analyzing and summarizing account information.
Reports the percentage of completion revenue recognition.
Prepare, manage, and support the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
Heavy involvement with external auditors as required to provide support when requested.
Management and reconciliation of general ledger sub-ledgers.
Provide sales tax preparation.
Perform other duties as assigned.