Senior Director, Accounting Operations (Hybrid-Reston, VA)

Our Corporate Accounting team is seeking a Senior Director, Accounting Operations Reporting directly to the Vice President, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer, you will lead teams responsible for billing, cash applications, accounts payable, expense, and labor & payroll operations.

This role is responsible for seamless operations and requires being a forward-thinking, strategic leader that can identify areas of opportunity for efficiency and scale, lead various cross-functional initiatives, and be a strong partner with internal customer stakeholders.

The position is hybrid (two-three days a week in the office) and located in ICF’s head-quarters in Reston, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 75+ professionals and own responsibility of all accounts receivable, accounts payable, labor & payroll processes

• Identify and lead critical cross-functional initiatives to drive efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of accounting operations (i.e. Accounts Payable Workflow, Automated Cash Applications, AR Workflow enhancements)

• Partner with other Corporate Accounting functions to ensure General Ledger and Financial Reporting accuracy

• Liaison with Program Operations to understand and drive enhancements designed to elevate customer experience and delivery

• Create and evolve financial reporting to provide actionable KPIs/metrics to ensure efficiency and compliance across Accounting Operations

• Drive employee professional development by providing mentorship and opportunities for learning and growth across the team.

• Lead company acquisition integration efforts across accounting operations

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field

• 15+ years of finance or accounting experience

• 10+ years of experience working with Accounting, Project Finance Control, Treasury, Procurement, Internal Audit, and/or other internal corporate support services

• 2+ years of experience managing financial and/or accounting operations functions in support of both government or commercial contracts

• 2+ years of experience using Deltek Costpoint, Deltek Time and Expense, and Cognos

Professional Skills:

• MBA/CPA preferred

• Proven ability to manage and lead large teams while demonstrating capability to create/support positive organization culture, provide mentorship/team development, establish clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability, and foster cross functional teamwork

• Successfully demonstrated process improvement initiatives

• Demonstrated knowledge of government contracting, Cost Accounting Standards and the Federal Acquisition Regulations

• Experience with system conversions, system upgrades and integrating acquired firms

• Expert skills in MS Office (i.e. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)

• Strategic thinker with proven ability to develop vision and drive initiatives for process improvements that align with organization goals

• Financial literacy and fluency with management and financial accounting practices

• Demonstrated ability to successfully work in a collaborative environment with a high-performance team

• Excellent internal customer service skills with ability to support high performing external customer delivery

• Ability to be flexible to dynamic priorities and changing business requirements

• Sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information

• Ability to work with all levels of internal staff including executive management

• Ability to drive innovation and clearly communicate complex ideas

• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities

Working at ICF

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