Senior Accountant and Finance Analyst
Legion
Cloud
Accounting Consultant – Defense
Culmen International
contract
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Provide accounting guidance and support to enhance defense accounting and reporting capability
- Provide defense property accountancy support to increase transparency and public trust, reduce fiscal procedure response times, and increase fiscal system effectiveness
- Provide IPSAS-focused accounting expertise and property-focused accounting expertise to advise financial management departments via virtual and in-country briefings
- Support institutional reform and modernization efforts for defense financial management
- Short-term engagement: anticipated start 2025-10-01, estimated 130 hours over 3 months, potential follow-on through September 2026
- Remote work with limited travel; virtual and in-country international briefings
Requirements
- Defense Accounting SME with International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) implementation expertise
- Demonstrated understanding of IPSAS principles
- Previous experience implementing IPSAS
- Demonstrated understanding of accrual-based accounting, including accrual principles, revenue recognition, and expense-revenue matching
- Knowledge of cash-based accounting (preferred)
- Demonstrated understanding of asset valuation and recognition using historical cost (required) and fair value (preferred)
- Familiarity with criteria for recognizing and measuring inventories and Plant, Property, and Equipment (PP&E)
- Demonstrated understanding of asset categorization, especially PP&E categories and associated accounting treatment
- Demonstrated familiarity with financial reporting standards
- Previous experience in public sector accounting; international public sector accounting experience preferred
- Demonstrated knowledge of stewardship reporting (preferred)
- Ability to obtain Secret clearance
- Position Type: Contract/1099 (short-term engagement)
- Willingness to travel occasionally (limited travel)
