Senior Accountant

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Senior Accountant owning close, audits, and GovCon compliance for Primordial Labs, which builds natural-language interfaces for autonomous systems. Fully remote across the United States.

Responsibilities:

  • Execute the month-end close, preparing journal entries, accruals, and supporting schedules under U.S. GAAP
  • Perform account reconciliations and resolve reconciling items for Controller review
  • Run monthly DCAA-compliant labor distributions and ensure time is charged correctly to contracts, indirect accounts, and unallowable categories
  • Prepare schedules and data for monthly reporting packages
  • Standardize and automate close tasks as the team scales
  • Manage day-to-day banking, billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, timekeeping, expense reporting, and fixed assets
  • Perform and document internal control activities while maintaining proper segregation of duties
  • Review timesheets and expense reports for compliance, including identifying and segregating unallowable costs
  • Serve as a power user of QuickBooks and Rippling and support implementation of a fully integrated GovCon ERP
  • Apply accounting policies consistently and raise unusual or complex transactions to the Controller
  • Gather contract terms and supporting data for technical memos and ASC 606 revenue recognition reviews
  • Prepare supporting schedules for inventory, leases, and stock-based compensation
  • Maintain audit schedules and serve as day-to-day contact for external auditors
  • Provide data and schedules to the external tax firm for returns, provision, and credits
  • Maintain multi-state registrations, sales and use tax filings, and 1099 reporting
  • Support DCAA and DCMA requests and audits by preparing documentation and data
  • Support Finance in preparing data for indirect rate calculations and related filings

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
  • 3 to 5 years of accounting experience in public accounting, industry, or both
  • Hands-on experience with a financial close
  • Experience supporting a financial statement audit
  • Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and the full month-end close
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Experience with QuickBooks or a similar accounting system
  • Habit of using automation to remove manual work from daily accounting workflows
  • Detail-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership over deadlines and accuracy
  • Comfortable raising questions early and working closely with the Controller in a fully remote environment
  • Active CPA license preferred
  • Experience in defense tech or at a venture-backed startup preferred
  • Experience with government contracting, including cost-type contracts, indirect rate structures, or incurred cost submissions preferred
  • Exposure to a GovCon ERP such as Deltek Costpoint, Unanet, or similar preferred
  • U.S. Citizenship required
  • Current residency within the United States required
  • Permanent Residency (Green Card status) or visa sponsorship cannot satisfy the regulatory requirements

Benefits:

  • Significant equity stake
  • 100% remote work
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) with 6% company match
  • Generous Discretionary Time Off (DTO) policy
  • Elite technology package