Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

Eiden Systems Consulting (ESC) is seeking an experienced, hands-on Controller to oversee the company’s accounting and financial operations. ESC is a growing small business with approximately 40 employees supporting federal government customers and prime contractors.

This is a working Controller position for someone who is comfortable managing the full accounting function while also performing detailed day-to-day accounting, payroll, billing, financial reporting, cash management, and government-contract accounting.

Costpoint 8.2 Experience Required

Direct, hands-on experience using Deltek Costpoint 8.2 is required. Candidates without direct Costpoint 8.2 experience will not be considered.

The Controller will serve as ESC’s primary Costpoint user and business-process owner, working directly in Costpoint 8.2 for accounting, billing, payroll, project setup, reporting, and period-end activities.

• Manage the company’s full accounting cycle and maintain the general ledger.
• Manage accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash receipts, vendor invoices, employee expenses, and disbursements.
• Perform bank, credit card, payroll, benefit, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare journal entries, accruals, adjusting entries, and supporting schedules.
• Manage monthly and year-end close activities.
• Maintain accurate, organized, and well-supported accounting records.

• Prepare and submit invoices for CPFF, T&M, FFP, and other government contract types.
• Reconcile invoices to timesheets, expenses, subcontractor costs, contract requirements, and Costpoint records.
• Establish and maintain projects, organizations, accounts, labor categories, billing formulas, funding, and contract modifications in Costpoint 8.2.
• Monitor contract funding, ceilings, periods of performance, burn rates, and unbilled costs.
• Calculate and monitor direct costs, indirect rates, fringe, overhead, G&A, wrap rates, billing rates, and fee.
• Support provisional billing rates, incurred-cost reporting, and government/customer audits.
• Ensure accounting and billing practices are consistent with applicable FAR cost principles and government-contract requirements.
• Submit invoices through WAWF and customer or prime-contractor billing portals.

• Process accurate and timely semi-monthly payroll through Costpoint 8.2.
• Reconcile payroll to employee timesheets and the general ledger.
• Manage payroll taxes, employee deductions, benefits, 401(k), FSA, dependent-care contributions, and related reporting.
• Coordinate multistate payroll withholding and unemployment-tax requirements.
• Work closely with Human Resources on payroll, benefits, and employee-accounting matters.

• Prepare monthly financial statements and management reports.
• Develop and maintain budgets, forecasts, and cash-flow projections.
• Monitor actual indirect rates against budgeted and provisional rates.
• Analyze financial, rate, cash-flow, and operating variances.
• Provide financial information for management planning, banking, insurance, tax, and proposal-pricing activities.
• Support development of labor rates, indirect rates, wrap rates, and other pricing inputs.

• Serve as ESC’s primary accounting user and business-process owner for Deltek Costpoint 8.2.
• Maintain Costpoint project structures, account mappings, billing configurations, approval workflows, and recurring processes.
• Work with ESC’s Costpoint support provider to troubleshoot issues and implement system improvements.
• Validate system corrections and ensure accounting and billing data remain accurate.
• Develop and maintain accounting procedures, calendars, checklists, and desk instructions.
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