Staff Accountant

TAE Aerospace is a global aerospace company providing maintenance services for some of the most powerful, exciting and important defense and commercial aircraft platforms in the world. We are also proud of our encouraging and supportive team environment that ensures we all work together within a genuine high-performance culture.

TAE is part of the ASDAM Group and is a leading sovereign defense, advanced manufacturing and sustainment company. It provides end-to-end capability across design, engineering, manufacturing, assembly and sustainment. ASDAM includes Marand, TAE Aerospace, Rosebank Engineering, Levett Engineering and Quickstep.

We are looking for a highly motivated Staff Accountant to work with the US Finance Team located in Scottsdale Arizona.

Role Overview & Key Responsibilities

• Ensure financial policies and procedures are adhered to in accordance with TAE Aerospace financial practices.
• Reporting.
• Preparation of various journal entries
• Prepare allocated General Ledger Reconciliations and analyze findings.
• Review P&L for assigned cost centers each month for accuracy and completeness.
• Interact with other TAE stakeholders to resolve balances between AP / AR intercompany accounts monthly.
• Prepare monthly capital expenditure reporting to budget.
• Prepare working capital reporting and analysis and drive accountability.
• Analysis.
• Supporting Finance Business Partners in the review of Commercial closed work orders, shop orders and resulting margin.
• Support the annual financial audit, as required.
• Assist operations and other functional departments with finance related queries.
• Review of open POs, good receipted but not invoiced (GRNI) reports, aged WIP, preliminary supplier invoice reports and shipped not invoiced reports, to ensure accurate reporting.
• Support the Finance Manager and Senior Financial Accountant.
• Other duties as required in the course of employment.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Active curiosity in understanding the financial data and interest in analyzing what is driving the output / trends. Critical and analytical thinking.
• Self-motivated with excellent follow through and a strong ability to prioritize and multitask within tight deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Desire to partner and succeed as a team within the organization, both within the Finance team and supporting other Functions across the TAE business - establishing and maintaining cross-functional relationships is a key success factor.
• Ability to assessprocesses, tasks and working papers with the aim of continuously improving the process, increasing efficiency / effectiveness and streamlining turnaround times without impacting quality and accuracy.
• Strong business acumen, including building strong understanding of TAE's customers and vendors and overall business relationships, as well as an understanding of internal controls and GAAP.
• Ability to ask open ended questions, integrate data from multiple sources to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and knowledge of / exposure to integrated ERP System
• Excellent verbal and written communication and the ability to discern the appropriate mode of communication for the situation.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, plus 1 year of experience in general accounting position.
• Experience in manufacturing, inventory, repair and overhaul, and cost accounting is a plus.
• Achievement or progress toward a professional accounting qualification is a plus