Job Description:
Centennial Technologies is looking for an Accountant with a strong Finance background to support us on a federal program. The individual should have proven extensive knowledge and success in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the financial reporting within the federal sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in preparing various time-sensitive financial transactions and reports for a federal agency, ensuring adherence to deadlines.
- Prepare, record, and adjust various journal entries to support Treasury submissions, including accruals, eliminations, and other necessary financial actions.
- Assume responsibility for assigned areas (e.g., organizational entity, program, or functional area), preparing, recording, interpreting, and reporting federal financial transactions and events.
- Conduct recurring and special-purpose reconciliations to ensure data accuracy and prepare financial reports, statements, and related documentation per prescribed formats to meet reporting requirements established by Treasury, OMB, other accounting authorities, and legislation such as the Chief Financial Officers Act.
- Prepare annual financial statements following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), encompassing disclosures, footnotes, supporting schedules/analytical files, and collecting and consolidating supplemental data to analyze the Service’s actual financial performance against established measures.
- Maintain clear audit trails from the general ledger to subsidiary records and from the accounting system to interfacing management systems.
- Ensure adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and standards established by organizations such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), GAAP, OMB, and GAO.
Skills Required:
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience supporting the federal government in accounting, general ledger, journal entries, reconciliations, and related financial processes, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- In-depth knowledge of payments, relocations, cash management, and employee travel claims processing within federal agencies.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify and resolve complex accounting issues.
- Experience preparing annual federal financial statements.
- Experience maintaining clear audit trails from the general ledger to subsidiary records.
- Proven experience in analyzing operational internal control structures.
- Familiarity with Federal Oracle Financials is a plus.
- Must have a bachelor’s degree.
- Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain Public Trust Clearance
Preferred Skills:
- Preferred: 3 years of experience resolving fatal accounting checks and submitting accounting data in TIER, GTAS, or CARS within a designated deadline.
- Preferred: 3 years of experience submitting accounting data within TIER, CARS, or GTAS.
- 5+ years of experience demonstrating proficiency and understanding of federal or DHS-specific financial management processes and requirements such as sub-ledger and general ledger activity, JVs, reconciliations, accruals, payment certifications, IPAC, invoicing, Invoice Processing Platform (IPP), intragovernmental transactions, property plant & equipment (PP&E), capitalization, depreciation, financial statements, etc.
Location:
Hybrid. Two Days at our Leesburg, VA office, one day potentially in DC, and two days remote.
About the Company:
Centennial Technologies Inc. (Centennial) is committed to a healthy work-life balance for our employees, and we have worked hard to foster an environment that enables employees to effectively prioritize both their professional and personal responsibilities. We make every effort to accommodate employees by providing flexible paid time off, a casual work atmosphere, frequent collaborative interaction, and the opportunity to continuously develop career skills. Centennial offers a competitive benefits package, which includes Medical, Dental, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401k, Mass Transit Benefits, Paid Time Off, and Federal Holidays.
Our Culture is inclusive of:
We offer a supportive professional environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance, alongside performance management techniques that reward our top performers. Through employee surveys and open discussions, we ensure that management decisions are informed by team input. We provide paid training on the latest technologies and business practices, all while maintaining an employee-focused model. Our shared vision is centered on client success, which we achieve by cultivating long-term client relationships.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Centennial is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local employment law
