Controller

Controller | Government Contractor | Primarily Remote

We are partnering with arapidly growing, approximately $25M government contractor to identify a hands-onController who will work closely with senior finance leadership and take significant ownership of the company’s accounting operations.

The company supportsDoD customers, including the U.S. Navy and Air Force, and is experiencing strong growth following several recent contract awards. The organization is at an exciting inflection point, with continued expansion expected across both government and commercial markets.

This is an excellent opportunity for an accounting professional who wants aController title, broad responsibility, significant exposure to finance, and a clear path for continued advancement as the organization scales.

Position Highlights

• Location: Primarily remote, with limited travel toOrlando, FL, generally no more than quarterly and potentially less frequently.
• Work directly with senior finance leadership across a broad range of accounting and finance initiatives.
• Join a growing organization withminimal bureaucracy and direct access to senior leadership.
• Opportunity to help build and scale the accounting and finance function.
• Potential to mentor and eventually manage junior accounting staff as the organization grows.
• Strong opportunity for future advancement into broader finance leadership responsibilities.
• Unanet experience is strongly preferred. Candidates with strongCostpoint experience may also be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead themonthly and quarterly financial close process, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, variance analysis, and preparation of financial statements.
• Own and maintain thegeneral ledger, chart of accounts, and supporting schedules, ensuring accurate and timely GAAP-compliant financial records.
• Manage day-to-day accounting activities, includingaccounts payable, accounts receivable, invoicing, payments, payroll coordination, bank reconciliations, and month-end close.
• Support payroll administration throughADP for a single legal entity of approximately70 employees.
• Manage project setup, maintenance, and closeout within the ERP system, ensuring proper coding of labor, ODCs, and indirect costs.
• Partner closely withContracts, Procurement, Program Management, and Operations to ensure new awards, funding modifications, subcontracts, purchase orders, and financial records are accurately reflected in the accounting system.
• Support the development and monitoring ofindirect rates, budgets, cash flow forecasts, and related financial analysis.
• Help implement and optimizeAP automation and other accounting processes, improving efficiency and scalability.
• Strengthen and documentinternal controls, accounting policies, procedures, and financial reporting processes.
• Assist with year-end audit preparation, incurred cost submissions, and requests from external auditors, banks, and government representatives.
• Maintain fixed asset, prepaid expense, accrual, and other balance sheet schedules.
• Monitor and respond to accounting and finance inquiries involving vendors, payroll, taxes, and other accounting matters.
• Support special projects and ad hoc financial analysis as the organization continues to grow.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree inAccounting, Finance, or a related field, with relevant industry and accounting experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning thefull monthly and quarterly close process.
• Strong knowledge ofGAAP, general ledger accounting, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation.
• Hands-on payroll experience, preferably utilizingADP or a comparable platform.
• Experience withproject-based or job-cost accounting, including project setup and indirect rate structures.
• Unanet experience strongly preferred.
• Strong Costpoint experience may be considered for candidates with otherwise exceptional backgrounds.
• AdvancedMicrosoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and reconciliations.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to operate effectively in ahands-on, entrepreneurial environment where processes are continuing to evolve.
• Comfortable moving between higher-level financial responsibilities and detailed day-to-day accounting work.

Preferred Experience

• Experience within agovernment contracting environment.
• Familiarity withFAR/DCAA requirements, indirect rates, and incurred cost submissions.
• CPA, CPA-eligible, or progress toward CPA licensure.
• Experience withUnanet and ADP.
• Prior experience working with Contracts and Procurement teams on contract awards, modifications, subcontracts, and compliance.
• Experience in asmall, rapidly growing company where the accounting and finance infrastructure is being built and refined.

Why This Opportunity?

This role should be particularly attractive to someone who enjoys beinghands-on today but wants room to grow tomorrow. The Controller will have substantial visibility across the business, partner directly with senior leadership, and play an important role in building the accounting and finance infrastructure needed to support the company's next stage of growth.

The ideal candidate is someone who can comfortably roll up their sleeves, own the details, improve processes, and grow into broader leadership responsibilities as the organization expands.

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