Accounting Manager

Job Summary: *Fully Remote Position* OPSPro specializes in providing small businesses and government contractors with compliance and operational support to include Accounting, Payroll, HR, Contracting, and IT. The Accounting Manager position is a full-time, fully remote position. This position is primarily responsible for all areas relating to financial reporting, GAAP accounting, government contract accounting, and the ability to manage complex projects within a fast-paced General Accounting environment for multiple clients across various industries. This role requires supervision of department staff members and is responsible for managing the team and client project work to ensure that responsibilities are properly allocated and completed in a timely and accurate manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Management of internal accounting team:

• Manages results-driven project teams.
• Organizes team roles and evaluating employee performance.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Provides individualized coaching and mentoring of staff.
• Executes department training plan to include weekly team development.
• Leads weekly team meetings.
• Manages department workflow to ensure that responsibilities are properly allocated and completed timely and accurately.
• Defines objectives, identifies and evaluates trends and options, chooses a course of actions and evaluates outcomes of department tasks and workflow for continuous improvement.
• Assists in accomplishing company-established objectives by providing forecasting, maintaining a department budget, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
• Responds to inquiries from executive or management team regarding department financial results and special reporting requests.
• Serves as the team resource in government contract accounting, GAAP, DCAA, and FAR standards and regulations to advise internal team as necessary, as well as expertise in all client consulting areas below.
• Performs other duties and special projects as assigned.

Multi-client consulting:

• Maintains quality customer service standards and resolves customer service issues.
• Maintains the integrity of the financial systems and the maintenance of accounts and records in such areas as assets, liabilities, equity, income, and expense in accordance with GAAP.
• Understands FAR and DCAA cost allocation requirements to ensure costs are allocated in accordance with proper accounting standards and guidelines.
• Ensures financial deadlines are met for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closings, this includes project reporting requirements.
• Analyzes financial statements and meet with clients to present completed analysis and recommendations.
• Reviews contracts and contract modifications as it pertains to the accounting and project setups of the system and client recommendations.
• Supports budget and forecasting activities.
• Supports cash flow activities.
• Responds to inquiries from the clients regarding financial results and special reporting requests.
• Performs other duties and special projects as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, or similar.
• 10+ years of management experience, preferably in a multi-business consulting environment.
• Willingness to learn various accounting systems, advanced system knowledge a plus (i.e., Procas, Unanet, Costpoint, QuickBooks).
• Experience with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR).
• Demonstratable knowledge of government contract funding and invoicing.
• Must be PC proficient and able to thrive in a fast -paced setting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, etc.)
• Proficient with other Microsoft products (Teams, Outlook, Word, and SharePoint).
• Experience with successfully handling multiple projects and customers.
• Detail oriented with strong organizational, time management, delegation and prioritization abilities.
• Planning and development of projects.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Creative problem solver.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently in a fully remote environment demonstrating strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications a plus:

• CPA or other state licensure.
• Advanced degree in accounting, finance, management, or similar.
• Certification in an accounting system (i.e., Unanet, Costpoint, QuickBooks).

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental & Vision
• FSA
• HSA
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• PTO
• Education Reimbursement

Minimum Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem solving situations; uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
• Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively; able to read and interpret written information.
• Diversity - Demonstrates knowledge of EEO policy; shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; promotes a harassment-free environment; builds a diverse workforce.
• Ethics - Treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; works with integrity and ethically; upholds organizational values.
• Strategic Thinking - Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; understands organization's strengths & weaknesses; analyzes market and competition; identifies external threats and opportunities; adapts strategy to changing conditions.
• Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; develops realistic action plans.
• Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner; reacts well under pressure; treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments.
• Innovation - Displays original thinking and creativity; meets challenges with resourcefulness; generates suggestions for improving work; develops innovative approaches and ideas; presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention.
• Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Language Skills - Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, proposals, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Mathematical Skills - Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Reasoning Ability - Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to question activities and issues in all functional areas and make sound business decisions based on that data.
• Physical Demands - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, type or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Work Environment - The work environment characteristics described here, representative of those encountered by employees while performing essential functions of this job, include the ability to effectively operate in a fully remote position.

Core Values:

• Own Your Stuff
  • Willingness to accept responsibility for one's actions
  • Owning the outcome of one's assigned tasks and projects, ensuring on time and satisfactory client delivery
  • Ensuring deadlines are met
  • Proactive communication
  • Ability to adeptly adapt to changes (e.g., new regulations, new client requirements)
  • Recognition that there are usually multiple ways to achieve a task
  • Willingness to step outside your comfort zone
  • Mutual accountability equates to achieving the balance you want in life
• Team First
  • Working with the team to achieve common goals
  • Willingness to pick up tasks that need to be completed even if not assigned to you
  • Collaborating with internal (OPS) and external (clients and/or vendors) as needed to achieve goal(s)
  • Proactively sharing information and lessons learned
  • Providing support to your teammates
  • Open to the ideas of others and the validity of those ideas
• Trusted Advisor
  • Providing informed advice to clients on a regular basis
  • Recommending (and implementing as appropriate) process improvements
  • Recognizing opportunities to expand the scope of services provided
  • Finding a way to say "yes" or finding a path to the desired outcome of the client
  • Understanding client expectations; addressing with the client if expectations are unrealistic or meeting or exceeding (no cost impact) realistic client expectations
• Actively Seeks Knowledge
  • Continually working to build a solid foundation of functional knowledge
  • Commitment to a constant state of learning
  • Sharing expertise with teammates
  • Adaptable to constantly changing technology and client requirements
• Good Egg
  • Integrity
  • Trustworthiness
  • Treats people with kindness
  • Compassionate
• Client Excellence Mindset
  • Rabid commitment to excellent customer service
  • Delivering exceptional value while exceeding expectations
  • Understanding our customer's needs
  • Focusing on operational excellence
  • Empowering employees to see, deliver, and improve the value of services provided
  • Being courteous and respectful

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