Classified Accounting - Level 2

Overview

What You Will Be Doing The Classified Accounting Team provides comprehensive financial management for programs and projects subject to classification. Responsibilities include the recording, analysis, and reporting of classified expenditures, ensuring compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) financial regulations, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and internal security policies. The team safeguards sensitive financial data while delivering accurate, timely information to program managers, auditors, and senior leadership.

Job Description Classified Accounting - Level 2 |

Location:

Palmdale CA

• General Ledger Management:
  Record and reconcile all classified transactions in accordance with GAAP, FAR, and CAS.
• Data transfers between physical environments on site.
• Maintain separate ledgers for classified and unclassified funds to prevent cross‑contamination.
• Work with program (finance, supply chain, MRP, production control) to process and correct vendor payments, including financing activities and normal payments.
• Perform financial analysis, variance analysis, and trend identification. Integrate information from multiple financial systems, processes and functions to consolidate data forensics into actionable business solution recommendations.
• Maintain applicable internal and external policy, procedure, and controls for compliance to support internal process and external regulatory requirements. General Ledger account reconciliation and analysis of GL balances. Ability to process, reconcile, and analyze data being transferred between two different environments.

• Ability to quickly pick up the financial data processing, data transfers between environments, and analyze financial reporting impacts from classified programs.
• Assist with coordination of internal and external audits (e.g., DoD Audit Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency).
• Address audit findings, implement corrective actions, and maintain audit trails for classified data.

• Safeguard classified financial records in accordance with ADP‑39, NISPOM, and agency security policies.
• Ensure proper handling, marking, storage, and transmission of classified information.

• Serve as liaison between finance, program management, contracting, and security offices.
• Provide briefings and financial insight to leadership and program review boards.

• Identify opportunities to streamline classified accounting processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance data integrity.
• Participate in system implementations/upgrades (e.g., ERP, CAFM) while maintaining classification controls.
• This role will need to be on-site (on-call) due to the classified nature of the business; the role will require travel between buildings.

From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security. Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

You are a detail-oriented accounting professional experienced in regulated, security-sensitive environments where accuracy, compliance, and data protection are essential. You have a strong foundation in general ledger accounting, financial analysis, and reconciling data across multiple systems, maintaining strict separation of classified and unclassified information. Comfortable working onsite and collaborating with finance, supply chain, contracting, production, and security teams, you support audits, vendor payments, and financial reporting in compliance with FAR, CAS, and US GAAP, providing reliable financial insight.

Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, SAP, Microsoft Office products, Financial Analysis.

Certifications:

CPA, CMA, or CISA preferred but not mandatory.

Must have willingness to learn, participate, be proactive, and improve processes.

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to work remotely

Part-time Remote Telework:
The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.