Senior Staff Accountant

AIT is the world's largest provider of automation, factory integration and tooling solutions dedicated to the global aerospace, defense, and space launch vehicle industries.

AIT offers a competitive compensation package (including free medical options for employees and their family), casual work environment and excellent growth opportunities.


Summary:
The Senior Staff Accountant will work closely with the Assistant Controller / Corporate Controller and must have cost accounting and journal entry experience. Possess an understanding of general accounting principles, financial reporting, and a working knowledge of PC-based accounting software.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and conformance of transaction coding to standards and policies.
• Scrutinize intercompany reconciliations/eliminations to ensure data integrity
• Reconcile and analyze balance sheet accounts to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and account balances are accurately stated in accordance with GAAP and Company policy.
• Prepare and examine financial reports with an eye for accuracy and compliance.
• Preparation of the company consolidation including foreign currency translations and intercompany eliminations.
• Responsible for revenue and cost accounting on company projects. Maintain, reconcile, and analyze COGS and Revenue by project.
• Maintains and balances accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly financial statements, reports and records by collecting, analyzing and summarizing account information.
• Reports the percentage of completion revenue recognition.
• Prepare, manage, and support the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Heavy involvement with external auditors as required to provide support when requested.
• Management and reconciliation of general ledger sub-ledgers.
• Provide sales tax preparation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Work Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or related field.
• CPA (preferred) or pursuit of designation.
• Minimum 5 years related, professional accounting and finance experience with some background in manufacturing. Exposure to percentage-of-completion accounting is preferred.
• Strong Excel experience including formulas, pivot tables and v-lookups
• Strong GAAP knowledge

Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements:
• N/A

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
List of needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully accomplish the duties and responsibilities of the job.
• Can interpret financial data contained in reports and ledgers.
• Performs day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Work in a high energy, high volume, rapidly changing environment.
• Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results.
• Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
• Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Ensures that decisions are made based on policies, rules and organizational directives to solve emerging problems.
• Maintains confidentiality while processing and handling confidential information with discretion.
• Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.

Work Conditions:
Environment Type:
• Indoors. Production and office environment. Temperature controlled.
Exposure Types:
• Dirt, dust, grease and/or oil
• Noisy environment
Work Hours:
• Standard work schedule, overtime may be necessary for meeting deadlines.
Travel Requirements:
• This position involve travel up to 10% of the time.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.
• Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

AIT Safety - AIT enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environ