Accounting Director

Overview:

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit .

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

Update and maintain accounting policies

Financial Statement preparation, ownership and review

Leadership for ADP payroll and GL accounting

Ownership of month-end close

Provides management with timely reviews of organization's financial status and progress in its various programs and activities

Key partnership with finance organization for teaming on consolidation of actuals and forecast

Audit, Tax and Government compliance lead

Prepares reports required by regulatory agencies

Review/update internal controls, and maintain oversight over G/L data

Seek out and continue to look for ways that G/L and closing processes can be automated or improved to create and improve efficiency across the accounting organization

Ensure balance sheet account reconciliations and ongoing monitoring and governance

Drive results to meet individual, team, and department objectives

Performs other accounting related duties as assigned by management.

Collaborates with others on special projects.

Qualifications:

Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related experience

10+ years of experience

Costpoint experience and Unanet experience

Leadership of a team

CPA

Strong analytical skills, research skills, and business acumen

Strong attention to detail

Self-starter with proven ability to spearhead projects with minimal supervision

Comfort working through ambiguity and in a rapidly changing environment

Strong communication skills

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

Sitting for long periods

Standing for long periods

Ambulate throughout an office

Ambulate between several buildings

About Empower AI:

It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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