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LEAD ACCOUNTANT
Defense Finance and Accounting Service · Posted 25 days ago
About the Role
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What You'll Do
- →Leads a team of professionals by communicating DFAS’s and customers’ strategy, equitably distributing workload, and monitoring progress.
- →Mentors team members in collaborative techniques, GAAP, and USSGL applications, providing actionable feedback to ensure deliverables meet leadership's quality standards for accurate financial statement preparation.
- →Evaluates current procedures to eliminate non-value-added steps, optimize government resources, and effectively resolve complex NFRs and CAPs to improve the auditability of agency financial statements.
- →Leverages Advana, DDRS, and sub-GL source systems to execute deep financial data analysis, ensuring transaction-level data accurately crosswalks to federal financial statement line items.
- →Collaborates with cross-functional teams to resolve abnormal balances and GAAP misalignments, proactively briefing leadership and audit stakeholders on system discrepancies and the strengthening of internal controls over financial reporting.
- →Serves as the primary liaison for facilitating process updates, delivering best-practice training on DoD FMR requirements, and collaborating with data owners to ensure timely, accurate period-end close and reporting submissions.
Requirements
- ✓Education requirements are listed in the Qualifications section above.
Personality Fit
Job ID: e1a931e8-d780-4cf6-aed1-8f5582e96a1f
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