Enterprise Accounting, Senior Accountant - Payroll

Amentum seeks an Enterprise Accounting, Senior Accountant – Payroll

Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative technology solutions, trusted by the United States and its allies to address their most significant and complex challenges in science, security and sustainability. Headquartered in Virginia, we have more than 53,000 employees in approximately 80 countries across all 7 continents.

The Enterprise Accounting, Senior Accountant – Payroll is responsible for applying accounting principles to prepare and process complex payroll accounting transactions, analyze information, and create financial reports.  Additionally, this role will be called upon to lead projects or team projects as needed. This is a remote-telework role, but you must live within a 3-hour driving distance to either our Fort Worth, TX or our Chantilly, VA Amentum office. US Citizenship is required to apply.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Apply knowledge of accounting principles to activities associated with maintaining payroll ledger accounts and developing financial statements and reports.
• Compile and analyze financial information to create/process payroll accounting transactions, analyze business results, and develop management reports.
• Perform month/quarter/annual close activities which may include analyzing payroll accounts, performing calculations, preparing journal entries, performing account reconciliation, preparing reports and financial statements, and resolving issues as needed.
• Establish and maintain accurate financial records; Create financial reports and statements that summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position.
• Assist Financial Reporting and other departments with obtaining accounting data for external or internal reporting and audits.
• Review work prepared by others and provide constructive comments and/or suggestions to foster efficiencies and improvements for the department.
• Comply with government regulations and internal controls (e.g., SOX).
• Assist other team members with the development and installation of accounting systems, methods, procedures and controls.
• Position may be assigned to specific accounting functions (e.g., close/process, general ledger and reporting/support) and may require additional or specific job duties related to assigned functions which are not aforementioned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to perform data extraction and manipulation, analyze financial data, and generate reports.
• Ability to analyze variances to budgets/forecasts/accruals, explain to management, and create corrective action plan.
• Demonstrate proficiency in finance and accounting relational databases (Costpoint, Cognos, HFM, Blackline) and Microsoft applications.
• Ability to work with numbers and complete assignments with attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to manipulate, interpret, and analyze data in Excel.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills to oversee and balance multiple work assignments.
• Knowledge of General Accepted Accounting principles (GAAP) required.  Knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Joint Travel Regulations (JTR), and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) a plus.
• Effective decision making and problem solving.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple work assignments, work with little supervision, and work well under pressure.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels throughout the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Five (5) years of previous accounting experience in Payroll Accounting
• US Citizenship is required to apply
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed,  marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal laws and supplemental language at Labor Laws Posters.