Accounting Manager / Controller

Job Description

Job Description

Salary:

About the Role
PPT Solutions is seeking a seasoned, high-impact financial leader to serve as the cornerstone of our internal accounting team. As the Lead for our accounting department, you will ensure the integrity of our financial operations while acting as a strategic bridge between leadership, contracts, and HR. This is a hands-on leadership role and is for someone who thrives in the fast-paced environment of government contracting.

Key Responsibilities for Accounting Manager / Controller:

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor the internal accounting team, overseeing daily operations and ensuring professional development and accuracy across the department.
• Full-Cycle Accounting: Directly oversee and execute Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) processes, General Ledger, ensuring timely billing, collections, and vendor payments.
• Executive Partnership: Serve as a key advisor to the CEO, providing clear financial insights, budget analysis, and data-driven recommendations to support company growth.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Interface closely with Contracts to ensure project setups, CLIN structures, and funding alignments are accurate.
  • Partner with HR to streamline payroll integration, benefits accounting, and employee onboarding/offboarding financial tasks.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure all accounting practices remain compliant with DCAA/FAR requirements and lead the preparation for year-end audits.
• Accounting system management: Manage all aspects of the system to ensure accurate project accounting, labor charging, and financial reporting.

Required Qualifications for the Accounting Manager / Controller:

• Experience: Minimum of 5-10 years of progressive experience in accounting, specifically within the government contracting (GovCon) industry.
• Education: Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data for non-financial stakeholders.
• Location: Ability to work on-site daily at our Huntsville, AL headquarters.

Preferred Attributes for the Accounting Manager / Controller:

• Strong leadership presence with a "servant-leader" mentality.
• Proven track record of managing DCAA-compliant accounting systems.
• High attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

1. This job typically operates in a professional office environment with moderate noise level. This role
   routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and
   fax machines. This role may be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time. This role may
   require lifting lightweight objects, typically used in an office environment, such as a computer laptop,
   files or copy paper.
2. For some, acknowledged at hire and in support of specified contract tasks, this role may be required to
   work outside in moderate weather conditions, stand/remain stationary for long hours, and climb in and
   out of vehicles/aircraft. The noise level in this work environment ranges from moderate to loud and may
   require protective devices such as wearing ear plugs. Specific vision abilities required include close vision,
   distance vision and the ability to differentiate between colors.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

At PPT, we value our employees. You can take comfort in the fact that here you will be treated as a professional, given room to grow and compensated with a benefits package to care for you and your family. You have made the decision to do meaningful work and we believe you should be rewarded for that decision. Explore our website and learn more about what it means to be a part of PPT Solutions.

Benefits offered include medical, dental, vision, basic life w/AD&D, supplemental life, short and long-term disability, EAP, FSA, 401(k), paid holidays, paid time off, employee referral award program and reimbursable job-related education/professional certification training.

PPT Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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