Federal Accountant (Project Management) from ALTA IT Services
Leesburg, VA
About the Job
Federal Accountant (Project Management)
Direct Hire | Hybrid: 3 days remote, 2 days in Leesburg, VA
Requirements: Federal experience
Public Trust Clearance: Not required before starting, but candidates should be able to obtain it if needed and must be a U.S. Citizen
Responsibilities:
Direct Hire | Hybrid: 3 days remote, 2 days in Leesburg, VA
Requirements: Federal experience
Public Trust Clearance: Not required before starting, but candidates should be able to obtain it if needed and must be a U.S. Citizen
Responsibilities:
- Managing Federal programs/projects – involving process improvement, reconciliations, Governmentwide Treasury Account Symbol (GTAS), Journal Vouchers (JVs), IPAC, intragovernmental transactions, Property Plant & Equipment (PP&E), capitalization, depreciation, and financial statements
- Manages client initiatives, including resource management, executive readouts, project plans, activity management, and gateway communication.
- Sets priorities, meets deadlines, and makes decisions affecting the project
- Develop and implement financial compliance processes to monitor the organization’s reliability compliance performance.
- Works collaboratively and acts in a lead role as a subject matter expert within a team environment to meet aggressive goals and pre-defined measurement criteria.
- Develops short and long-range plans to prioritize issues, develop program objectives, obtain needed resources, and meet reliability compliance program objectives.
- Advises senior management team on a broad variety of reliability compliance, risk management, and strategic issues
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge serving in a leadership role (i.e., project lead, project manager, applying core project management processes as defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
- 8+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Familiarity with Federal Oracle Financials is required.
- 8+ years of Financial Management and transformation experience
- 8+ years of proven track record in supporting Public Sector projects
- 5 years federal accounting/project management
- 5+ years of providing support in the areas of reconciliations, GTAS, IPP, PP&E, and JVs.
- Identifying and addressing client needs: developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation, and persuasion skills
- Preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, and collection.
- Leading teams to generate a vision, establishing direction and motivating members, creating an atmosphere of trust, leveraging diverse views, coaching staff, and actively promoting continuous improvement and innovation.
- Exceptional work ethic, work well under pressure to meet strict deadlines, use time productively, maximize efficiency, and meet challenging work goals.
- Utilizing project management software and technologies, such as Microsoft Project with attention to details
- Familiarity with financial and operational internal controls is a plus.
- Familiarity with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is desired but not required.
