Staff Accountant

OSC Global

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Accountant supports day-to-day accounting operations, maintaining accurate financial records, executing month-end close procedures, and ensuring overall compliance with GAAP. This position plays a critical role in maintaining the integrity of the general ledger, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting, and supporting compliance with federal regulations, including Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) requirements. Within a cybersecurity and software engineering environment, the Staff Accountant ensures proper accounting for labor-intensive contracts, indirect cost allocations, project cost structures, and compliance with government cost principles. This role supports a DCAA-ready accounting environment and collaborates closely with forecast, planning and analysis (FP&A), contracts, and operations to ensure accurate financial reporting for federal programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• At least one year in government contracting or public accounting.
• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed to support project deadlines, deployments, outages and critical business needs.
• Must have ability to pass a background screening.
• Must be U.S. Citizen
• Strong knowledge of government contracting financial structures, cost accounting, and compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate financial data and records to support business operations and decision-making.
• Knowledge of, and ability to apply, generally accepted accounting principles and reporting standards including thorough understanding of payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash receipts and general ledger.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal, and technical communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across all organizational levels and communicate complex financial information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to self-motivate and be proactive in exercising sound judgment, solving complex problems, managing competing priorities and performing effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• High degree of sensitivity regarding confidential information.
• Sufficient fine motor skills for use of computers, calculators with an ability to withstand repetitive keyboarding for extended periods of time.
• Visual and communication abilities adequate to perform the essential functions of the job.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in applicable field preferred.
• Current CPA or CMA certification, or active progress toward obtaining a CPA or CMA certification strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations and supporting schedules.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies.
• Support the preparation of accurate and timely financial statements and management reports.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, OSCG policies, government contracting requirements and applicable regulatory standards.
• Support DCAA audits and financial statement audits by preparing schedules and documentation.
• Maintain fixed assets ledger, depreciation schedules, and prepaid expenses.
• Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and project accounting functions as needed.
• Record and reconcile intercompany labor, shared service and overhead allocations.
• Prepare monthly intercompany reconciliations.
• Assist with consolidation and elimination of entries between affiliated entities.
• Ensure timely settlement of intercompany balances.
• Reconcile payroll, benefits, taxes, and labor distributions.
• Support labor transfers and project labor adjustments.
• Review timesheet compliance and process labor.
• Maintain supporting documentation for financial transactions.
• Perform other duties as appropriate and as assigned.

Benefits

• paid holidays
• paid time off
• 401k with employer match
• dental
• vision
• health insurance plans through the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program
• life and disability benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level