Senior Accountant

Location: Hybrid. Two Days at our Leesburg, VA office, one day potentially in DC, and two days remote.

Required: US Citizens

Node is seeking a Senior Accountant with a strong finance background to support us on a federal program. The individual should have proven extensive knowledge and success in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the financial reporting within the federal sector.

Skills such as business process re-engineering, developing resource management strategies, conducting project-related assessments, and recommending solutions are a huge plus.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage Federal programs/projects – involving process improvement, reconciliations, Governmentwide Treasury Account Symbol (GTAS), Journal Vouchers (JVs), IPAC, intragovernmental transactions, Property Plant & Equipment (PP&E), capitalization, depreciation, and financial statements.

Conduct recurring and special-purpose reconciliations to ensure data accuracy and prepare federal financial reports, statements, and related documentation per prescribed formats to meet reporting requirements established by Treasury, OMB, other accounting authorities, and legislation such as the Chief Financial Officers Act.

Prepare annual financial statements following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), encompassing disclosures, footnotes, supporting schedules/analytical files, and collecting and consolidating supplemental data to analyze the Service’s actual financial performance against established measures.

Maintain clear audit trails from the general ledger to subsidiary records and from the accounting system to interfacing management systems.

Works collaboratively and leads as a subject matter expert within a team environment to meet aggressive goals and pre-defined measurement criteria.

Develop short and long-range plans to prioritize issues, develop program objectives, obtain needed resources, and meet reliability compliance program objectives.

Advise senior management team on various reliability compliance, risk management, and strategic issues.

Manage client initiatives, including resource management, executive readouts, project plans, activity management, and gateway communication. 

Set priorities, meet deadlines, and make decisions affecting the project.

Requirements

Skills Required:

• 10+ years of total experience supporting various organizations, including 8+ years of relevant federal financial experience.
• At least 3 to 5 years of resolving fatal accounting errors and submitting accounting data within a designated deadline.
• Minimum of 3 years experience supporting a federal financial management division or an organization that functions similarly in the federal government, preferably with DHS or USSS (not required).
• Minimum of 3 plus years experience providing federal business process reengineering, strategic program management, communications, change management, and financial operations support, understanding and applying applicable finance and accounting federal laws, regulations, standards, and guidance.
• Minimum of 3 plus years experience that shows proficiency and understanding of federal or DHS-specific financial management processes and requirements such as sub-ledger and general ledger activity, Journal Vouchers (JVs), reconciliations, accruals, payment certifications, IPAC, invoicing, Invoice Processing Platform (IPP), intragovernmental transactions, property plant & equipment (PP&E), capitalization, depreciation, financial statements, etc.
• A minimum of 3 years experience in supervisory principles and practices to direct, review, and evaluate the work of subordinate personnel. The Program Manager shall be capable of planning, directing, and coordinating the work of the technical personnel involved.
• Must have a working knowledge of the Federal Government or DHS federal financial management practices and requirements.
• Familiarity with financial and operational internal controls is a plus.
• Familiarity with Federal Oracle Financials is required.
• Familiarity with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is desired but not required.
• PMP certification is a plus.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain Public Trust Clearance

Company Overview:

Node. Digital is an independent Digital Automation & Cognitive Engineering company that integrates best-of-breed technologies to accelerate business impact.

Our Core Values help us in our mission. They include:

OUR CORE VALUES

Identifying the~RIGHT PEOPLE~and developing them to their full capabilities

Our customer’s “Mission” is our “Mission”. Our~MISSION FIRST~approach is designed to keep our customers fully engaged while becoming their trusted partner

We believe in~SIMPLIFYING~complex problems with a relentless focus on agile delivery excellence

Our mantra is “~Simple*Secure*Speed~” in the delivery of innovative services and solutions

Benefits

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life
• Long-Term Disability
• Health Saving Account
• 401K
• Three weeks of PTO
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Pre-Approved Online Training