Senior Accounting Specialist
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Senior Accounting Specialist managing GL, accounts payable, reconciliations, and procurement systems for Sabel Systems’ defense engineering programs. Supporting compliant financial operations for DoW contracts.
Responsibilities:
- Process vendor invoices in the accounts payable system, including three-way matching of purchase orders, receipts, and invoices
- Manage approval routing, scheduled payment runs, and aging review
- Prepare journal entries, perform account reconciliations, and support month-end and year-end close
- Prepare and review monthly general ledger account reconciliations
- Investigate variances, clear reconciling items, and document audit-ready support
- Review semi-monthly timesheets for accuracy, completeness, and proper approval
- Maintain labor journals and ensure labor costs are accurately recorded and allocated
- Participate in implementation, configuration, testing, and user training for the new procurement system
- Document related procurement-system processes
- Review and approve requisitions through system approval workflows
- Create, track, and monitor purchase orders
- Reconcile purchase-order balances against contract funding
- Serve as liaison between accounting and the project team during system implementation
- Maintain vendor master data and vendor relationships
- Perform other duties and special projects as assigned
Requirements:
- 5+ years of GL accounting experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- Experience working with various accounting systems
- Experience with general ledger maintenance, account reconciliations, and month-end close
- Strong balance sheet reconciliation skills, including variance analysis and timely resolution of reconciling items
- Working knowledge of federal compliance requirements, including FAR
- Familiarity with cost accounting for government contracts, including allocability and indirect cost treatment
- Experience preparing audit-ready documentation and supporting internal or external audits
- Experience with system implementations, conversions, or upgrades, including process documentation and user testing and training
- Working knowledge of GAAP, including accruals and expense recognition
- Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office (Outlook and Word) proficiency
- Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills
- Detail oriented
- Ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced, growing company
- Excellent communication
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
- Experience managing multiple clients, vendors, and stakeholders
- Experience with DoW accounting or finance is a major plus
- Experience with ERP or general ledger systems
- Experience with systems such as Zip or Ivalua is preferred
Benefits:
- Healthcare
- Financial assistance in the event of illness, injury, disability, loss of work, or death
- Health savings accounts
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Education and training program reimbursement
- Competitive benefits and compensation package
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