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Guides nonprofit clients through onboarding by reviewing financial records, resolving discrepancies, preparing reconciliations, and delivering accurate accounting and reporting across multiple client accounts.
Senior Analyst
🕒 3 days ago
Full-cycle AccountingAccounts PayableAccounts ReceivablePayroll Entries
📜 Description
- Manage accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll entries, and month- and year-end close.
- Maintain general ledger records, reconcile balance sheet accounts, and resolve discrepancies.
- Prepare U.S. GAAP-compliant financial statements and audit deliverables; coordinate with external auditors.
- Improve accounting processes, documentation, internal controls, and reconciliation procedures.
- Support strategic planning with financial insights and help implement and optimize accounting and ERP systems.
- Manage incentive compensation schedules, accruals, and payouts.
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience.
- Experience improving or automating accounting processes in a growing company.
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with large data sets.
- Proficiency with accounting software such as Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, or similar.
- Strong attention to detail, prioritization, communication, and teamwork skills.
✨ Benefits
- Our Unicorns Enjoy
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
Full job description
Role Description:
We are seeking a detail-oriented Senior Analyst to join our corporate finance team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in accounting principles and a passion for accuracy and efficiency. As a Senior Analyst at Defense Unicorns, you will be responsible for various tasks including typical accounting functions such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, expense management, and financial reporting.
Responsibilities:
- Manage full-cycle accounting, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll entries, and month-end/year-end close.
- Prepare, review, and maintain accurate general ledger records and reconciliations.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts, investigate discrepancies, and resolve outstanding items.
- Improve accounting processes, strengthen documentation, and establish consistent reconciliation procedures.
- Ensure timely preparation of financial statements in compliance with U.S. GAAP.
- Maintain internal controls and support ongoing improvements to accounting workflows.
- Support strategic planning with data-driven financial insights.
- Prepare and manage audit deliverables, maintaining clear communication with external auditors.
- Partner cross functionally with all departments to ensure financial accuracy and alignment across the organization.
- Support implementation and optimization of accounting and ERP systems.
- Maintain and develop accounting policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Manage the incentive compensation cycle, including maintaining amortization schedules, accrual and payouts
Travel Expectations/Requirements: Occasional (less than quarterly) department or company gatherings.
The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Demonstrated success improving or automating accounting processes in a growing company.
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with large data sets.
- Efficient in managing workload and meeting deadlines.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting software (e.g., Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, or similar).
- Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team.
Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.
Remote - USA
$100,000-$125,000 USD
Who We Are
Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.
What We Do
We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.
Who We Serve
Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.
What We Work On
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
- GitOps
- Containers
- CNCF projects and open source products and packages
- Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
- Building and improving security delivery
- Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy
Health:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
Financial:
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
Leave:
- We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
- Paid Parental Leave
Learning:
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.
At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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