Job Description Summary

Whether you want to work at one of our facilities as the site leader's right hand helping to make business decisions or at headquarters on a larger finance team, we have an opportunity for you. You’ll get to work with budgets of various sizes and complexities, while collaborating with others. Our finance and accounting teams span the globe, providing unmatched learning, development, and career growth opportunities.

The Senior Government Accounting Manager is a key member of the North American Technical Team within GE Aerospace Government Accounting Controllership. The role is responsible for providing leadership in the areas of maintaining compliance of the North American Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) Disclosure Statement (DS) and quantification of DS revision impacts as required by CAS. The role will execute general dollar magnitude (GDM) cost impacts, disclose cost accounting practice changes to our government regulators and be integrated into the business to detect and ensure compliance regarding future business changes. The Senior Government Accounting Manager is also responsible for building critical relationships with Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) personnel. The role will have frequent contact with GE Aerospace Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, and business stakeholders. Finally, the Senior Government Accounting Manager will ensure synchronization with the wider Government Business team to achieve team and business objectives.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

The Senior Government Accounting Manager will play a critical role to ensure GE Aerospace is compliant with the Cost Accounting Standards and internal policies and procedures:

• Major contributor to annual Disclosure Statement (DS) updates as well as support of government audits for prior year DS revisions.
• Perform General Dollar Magnitude (GDM) modeling and analysis to pinpoint impact of potential CAS non-compliances, cost accounting practice changes (CAP) and DS revisions. 
• Support the Innoveering business as the Government Accounting Compliance Lead
• Develop, review, and publish indirect overhead and direct labor pricing, billing, and final (ICS) rates
• Support ICS and proposal audits
• Implement monthly cost monitoring to ensure accuracy of pricing and billing rates
• Build open and positive relationships with internal business partners and USG customers
• Implement business processes that are compliant with the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and support the requirements of Federal Acquisition regulation (FAR), Department of Defense supplement (DFARS), and other applicable acquisition regulations and guidance
• Implement business processes that are compliant with the CAS and support the requirements in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Department of Defense supplement (DFARS), and other applicable acquisition regulations and guidance.
• Collaborate with internal representatives and external government audit partners to support government audits.
• Personally lead lean transformation efforts to eliminate waste, improve transparency, establish standard work, and enhance the value the team brings to the business.
• Thrive in a culture of continuous learning with team members to deepen domain expertise, enhance overall business acumen, and prepare for additional responsibility.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
• Significant related experience at a major defense contractor, DCMA, or DCAA

Desired Characteristics

• Significant expertise in US Government contracting with broad understanding of FAR, DFARS, and Cost Accounting Standards.
• Expertise in Government Accounting with significant practical experience calculating complex General Dollar Magnitude (GDM) cost impacts, Cost Accounting Standards and CASB Disclosure Statements.
• Experience in complex Excel financial modeling and analytics (ROM/GDM/DCI)
• Significant experience interacting with senior DCMA (ACO, DACO, CACO) and DCAA (supervisory auditor, Branch Manager, Regional Audit Manager).
• Experience with FPRP and ICS cycles.
• Strong cost accounting background related to US Government contracting.
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Able to tailor communications to the needs of the audience.
• Ability to apply lean principles in a transactional setting with an emphasis on root cause analysis, countermeasure development, and sustained change control.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects / programs.  Ability to document, plan and execute programs.  Established project management skills.
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