Federal Financial Management SME/Senior Accountant – Federal Systems

Company Description

At i360technologies, we’re a team of driven professionals specializing in business consulting and technology services for federal agencies. We’re passionate about solving complex challenges through strategic thinking and innovative solutions. Since our founding in 2001, we’ve fostered a collaborative, fast-paced environment where initiative is recognized, professional growth is encouraged, and careers flourish. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits for full-time employees, and abundant opportunities for advancement. If you're motivated, solutions-oriented, and ready to make an impact, you’ll find a rewarding and supportive home at i360.

Job Description

Responsibilities:  
Financial operations and reconciliations (lead workstream ownership) 

• Lead recurring operational support across grant and non-grant financial processes, ensuring accurate recordation support, reconciled results, and defensible working papers for monthly/quarterly/annual reporting. 
• Perform and continuously improve cross-enterprise reconciliations among UFMS, JustGrants, ASAP, and relevant legacy data sources; research discrepancies, document root causes, and define requirements for permanent fixes when patterns emerge. 
• Execute and enhance daily UFMS–ASAP payment reconciliation, communicate results to stakeholders, and support timely correction of rejected transactions and recurring authorization issues (including outreach/guidance to recipient users when needed). 
• Maintain/enhance operational reconciliation tools and workflows, including: 
• Treasury CARS reconciliation support (identify cash differences, provide remediation paths) 
• Undelivered Order (UDO) analysis for grant and non-grant (identify GL differences, posting errors) 
• Advance drawdown liquidation monitoring and issue routing for resolution to protect GTAS/financial statement accuracy 
• Excess cash analysis tool refreshes and monitoring aligned to SF-425 windows 

Accruals, reimbursables, and enterprise support 

• Support quarterly generation and refinement of grant and non-grant accrual draft entries (including lookback analyses and methodology updates) using MS Access automation and trend forecasting. 
• Produce and reconcile enterprise extracts required to generate the Provider List (reimbursable agreement activity), ensuring GL tie-out and correct formatting for downstream use. 
• Provide recurring accounting and budget process support by building ad hoc queries (MS Access/SQL) across enterprise data sources, integrating results into USSGL-centric analysis, and translating findings for accounting, budgetary, and grants viewpoints. 

Tooling, automation, and documentation 

• Develop/maintain MS Access databases, queries, reports, and (as needed) VBA-enabled applications that automate reconciliations and controls, including ODBC connections to Oracle-based UFMS data stores and other enterprise sources. 
• Author time-sensitive ad hoc Oracle SQL Developer queries and produce reconciled outputs suitable for management and audit consumption. 
• Contribute to preventative/detective controls and documentation that strengthen the internal control environment and auditability of financial statement data. 

Leadership and coordination 

• Serve as O&R workstream lead, prioritizing work, setting quality standards, coordinating handoffs with other SMEs/subcontractor staff, and ensuring repeatable processes and timely delivery. 
• Provide status inputs for the monthly reporting/invoicing cycle, including clear articulation of work performed, issues/risks, and next steps. 

Qualifications

• Education: Master’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or similar; or bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of recent federal accounting system analysis/reporting experience in lieu of the Master’s requirement. 
• Experience: Minimum 10 years of recent experience supporting federal financial systems, including complex reporting, reconciliation, and operational accounting support. 
• Technical: Expert MS Access and MS Excel skills; strong SQL skills; demonstrated ability to use ODBC to connect to enterprise Oracle databases; ability to reconcile subsidiary/detail data to USSGL/GL. 
• Domain: Strong knowledge of federal accounting/reporting practices (GAAP concepts as applicable in the federal environment; familiarity with SFFAS and OMB reporting/control expectations); experience supporting grant financial reporting data (e.g., SF-425)