Journeyman Contracts Support Specialist
Teracore, Inc.
Accounting Manager, GovCon
MillerMusmar CPAs
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Virginia
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead a team of Senior and Staff Accountants delivering outsourced accounting and advisory services to government contractor clients
- Serve as the day-to-day leader, technical reviewer, process owner, and staff mentor ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and timeliness across multiple clients
- Act as primary reviewer of monthly and quarterly close packages prepared by staff for 8–12 GovCon client accounts
- Coordinate with clients on closing schedules, indirect rate calculation and modeling, and ad hoc financial analysis
- Oversee specialty GovCon consulting services: FAR overhead rate audits (AASHTO), forward pricing models, proposal assistance, cost pool and indirect rate structure setup, DCAA-compliant policies & procedures, and Form SF-1408 Pre-Award Audit Survey walkthroughs
- Lead new client onboarding and oversee accounting system setup and timekeeping implementations (Unanet, Procas, QuickBooks Online/Desktop, Xero, SpringAhead)
- Guide team on balance sheet integrity and reconciliations, retained earnings reconciliations, labor distributions, cost allocations, project costing, unallowable cost tracking, and indirect rate methodology, calculation, and maintenance/troubleshooting
- Ensure workpapers meet internal documentation standards
- Supervise, mentor, and provide technical coaching to 2–3 Senior/Staff Accountants; deliver feedback, provide escalation support, and coordinate resource planning
- Maintain and enhance SOPs and internal workflows; recommend and implement process improvements; leverage firm tools to streamline monthly close processes
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
- Minimum 6–8 years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 3 years serving GovCon clients
- Prior experience in a public accounting firm or outsourced accounting provider
- Strong understanding of FAR, CAS, and indirect rate structures
- Proficiency with QuickBooks Online/Desktop, Unanet, Deltek Costpoint and/or Procas
- Experience reviewing full-cycle monthly close packages
- Demonstrated ability to manage and mentor junior staff
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- CPA or CPA-eligible (preferred)
- Familiarity with FAR/AASHTO audits, SF-1408 pre-award audit surveys, and DCAA-compliant timekeeping (preferred)
- Experience with SpringAhead or similar timekeeping platforms (preferred)
