Senior Staff Accountant

Job Description

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM

AIT is the world's largest provider of automation, factory integration and tooling solutions dedicated to the global aerospace, defense, and space launch vehicle industries.

AIT offers a competitive compensation package (including free medical options for employees and their family), casual work environment and excellent growth opportunities.

The Senior Staff Accountant will work closely with the Assistant Controller / Corporate Controller and must have cost accounting and journal entry experience. Possess an understanding of general accounting principles, financial reporting, and a working knowledge of PC-based accounting software.

• Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and conformance of transaction coding to standards and policies.
• Scrutinize intercompany reconciliations/eliminations to ensure data integrity
• Reconcile and analyze balance sheet accounts to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and account balances are accurately stated in accordance with GAAP and Company policy.
• Prepare and examine financial reports with an eye for accuracy and compliance.
• Preparation of the company consolidation including foreign currency translations and intercompany eliminations.
• Responsible for revenue and cost accounting on company projects. Maintain, reconcile, and analyze COGS and Revenue by project.
• Maintains and balances accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly financial statements, reports and records by collecting, analyzing and summarizing account information.
• Reports the percentage of completion revenue recognition.
• Prepare, manage, and support the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Heavy involvement with external auditors as required to provide support when requested.
• Management and reconciliation of general ledger sub-ledgers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or related field.
• CPA (preferred) or pursuit of designation.
• Minimum 5 years related, professional accounting and finance experience with some background in manufacturing. Exposure to percentage-of-completion accounting is preferred.
• Strong Excel experience including formulas, pivot tables and v-lookups
• Strong GAAP knowledge

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List of needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully accomplish the duties and responsibilities of the job.

• Can interpret financial data contained in reports and ledgers.
• Performs day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Work in a high energy, high volume, rapidly changing environment.
• Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results.
• Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
• Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Ensures that decisions are made based on policies, rules and organizational directives to solve emerging problems.
• Maintains confidentiality while processing and handling confidential information with discretion.
• Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.

• Indoors. Production and office environment. Temperature controlled.

• Dirt, dust, grease and/or oil

• Standard work schedule, overtime may be necessary for meeting deadlines.

• This position involve travel up to 10% of the time.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.
• Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

AIT enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. All employees that work in or enter the production environment are required to wear personal protective equipment.

It is our policy to provide quality products and services that meet customer expectations and delivery requirements. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the AIT Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable AIT Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and…