Senior Accountant
We are currently seeking candidates for a Senior Accountant opportunity with a highly successful and innovative technology company in the Greater Boston area. This role will be hands-on in supporting daily accounting operations, including month-end close, labor posting, billing, and financial reporting. The ideal candidate will have prior experience with Deltek Costpoint and Deltek Time & Expense, which are required for this position.
This is a 6-12+ month contract opportunity, paying between $55-$70/hour (depending on experience).
Responsibilities:
- Own the monthly close cycle by preparing, reviewing, and posting journal entries (including accruals, prepaids, allocations, reclasses, and reversals), maintaining the close checklist, and performing trial balance reviews and account analysis to ensure general ledger accuracy.
- Prepare and maintain monthly balance sheet reconciliations across accounts such as cash, AP/AR, payroll liabilities, and accrued expenses, while investigating and resolving variances.
- Manage timekeeping workflows including timesheet cycles, approvals, and corrections; post labor transactions and support labor distribution; troubleshoot posting errors and partner with project stakeholders to resolve time-charging discrepancies.
- Support project accounting activities including charge structure validation and project setup, track and reconcile unbilled and contract assets, generate customer invoices, and assist with AR aging and cash application.
- Oversee end-to-end accounts payable processing, including coding, approvals, and posting, as well as vendor maintenance and documentation controls.
- Produce and validate recurring reports on project performance, billing and unbilled status, and AR/AP aging, while documenting report logic and improving reporting reliability for leadership use.
- Identify control gaps, workflow bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve accounting processes and operational efficiency.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 5–10+ years of progressive accounting experience with substantial hands-on Deltek Costpoint experience.
- Demonstrated ability to independently execute and manage a full month-end close in Deltek Costpoint.
- Experience administering Deltek Time & Expense timekeeping workflows.
- Experience in a government contracting environment with working knowledge of FAR, DCAA requirements.
- Billing experience on fixed-price contracts including milestone invoicing and unbilled asset management.
- Proficiency with Deltek Business Intelligence (BI) reporting.
- Advanced Excel proficiency (pivot tables, lookups, reconciliation and variance analysis).
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
For immediate consideration, interested and qualified candidates should send their resume to Lydia at [email protected].
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