Senior Accountant - Growing Maritime Defense Business

Title: Senior Accountant

Reports to: VP, Finance

Based in: St. Petersburg,FL

Work Type: Hybrid (Typically 3 days on-site 2 days from home - our offices are based in St Petersburg FL)

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Pole Star Defense is a leading provider of maritime domain awareness, maritime security, and fisheries monitoring systems to the government sector. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of innovation, mitigating growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, safety of lives at sea and beyond. Today, we continue to develop and implement pioneering intelligence technologies to protect customer vessels, people, maritime domain, and reputation.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Accountant is responsible for the accounting of Pole Star Defense in all aspects of corporate accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoice processing, new vendor set-up, payroll support, accounting system administration, as well as supporting the budgeting and forecasting process. The ideal candidate will have some exposure to government contract accounting and auditing. Additionally, they will be a professional of unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character who has demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for payroll execution, proper recording of shift differentials/uplifts, as needed support with payroll tax issues, and payroll deduction reviews, multi-state and timecard distribution calculations
• Responsible for recording of all accounts payable and accounts receivable for payment
• Responsible for the monthly closing process, journal entries, cash reconciliations, accruals, deferrals, production of financial statements
• Account setup of employees, customers, and vendors in the accounting and timekeeping systems
• Expense report review and posting
• Audit support
• File organization
• Capturing and documenting processes and procedures
• ERP (SAP B1) System Administration: Contract/Task Order Setup and maintenance, Customer/Vendor set-up and maintenance, system data import and exports

Requirements

• 5+ years of accounting experience
• Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• Ability to frame problems for discussion as well as come with prepared solutions
• Experience generating new processes and documenting those changes

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or similar

DESIRED SKILLS (Not Required):

• Experience w SAP B1
• Experience with Bamboo HR
• DCAA cost pool management experience
• Experience working with DHS or DOD
• Experience working with government invoicing and customers • Understanding of indirect rate pooling

TRAVEL REQUIRED:

• Ability for up to 10% travel both domestic and international.

Benefits

Pole Star Defense offers benefits that are designed to lead an evolving marketplace and encourage a healthy balance between work and life. Highlights of those benefits are listed below:

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability insurance for employees and dependents (100% covered by company)
• Life insurance, company funded to 2x salary
• 20 days annual leave (can buy or sell more days)
• Up to a 5% 401K matching
• Gym membership subsidy
• Volunteer Day PTO
• Refer-a-friend recruitment bonus
• Unlimited learning & development via our learning platform.

WORK SCHEDULE NOTE:

While this position is scheduled for a traditional Monday – Friday work week, our systems run 24/7/365 and as such, you may be expected to perform out of hours, on-call support on an as needed basis. This may include weekends and/or holidays and is worked on a rotation system with other team members. Additional compensation may be available for working on-call, standby or holiday hours.

This is a Public Trust position and requires completion of a State and Federal Criminal History Report (i.e., background check) and may require a Department of Defense security clearance. Current and future employment will be contingent upon satisfactory completion of both the FBI Summary History Report and if designated, a DoD security clearance.

This position requires use of or access to information subject to the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). Accordingly, all applicants must be U.S. pe