Government Accountant

We're a defense R&D company with a growing contract base across the Department of War. Government work comes with an accounting standard attached: job cost by contract, indirect rates that hold up under audit, timekeeping that survives a floor check.

This is our in-house accounting seat. You'll own the books end to end and be the person who keeps us clean with DCAA — not one voice among five in a finance department.

• Own the general ledger, month-end close, AP/AR, and payroll.
• Run job cost accounting by contract and CLIN, and keep it reconcilable to the GL.
• Maintain the indirect rate structure — fringe, overhead, G&A — and track provisional versus actual.
• Prepare incurred cost submissions and support DCAA and DCMA audits and reviews.
• Invoice through government systems and keep billing current as contracts ramp.
• Keep timekeeping and expense policy compliant, and train the team on what that means day to day.
• Give the founders a straight read on cash, backlog, and rate health.

• Government contract accounting experience under FAR, DFARS, and DCAA expectations.
• Hands-on with a job cost accounting system — Deltek Costpoint, Unanet, Quick Books with a compliance layer, or equivalent.
• You've worked with indirect rate structures and can explain a rate to someone who doesn't do this for a living.
• Comfortable being the only accountant in the building — you'll set the process, not inherit it.

• CPA.
• Incurred cost submission experience start to finish.
• SBIR/STTR or other cost-reimbursable R&D contracts.
• You've stood up an accounting system at a company this size before.

U.S. citizenship required. Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.