Senior Accountant

Job Description

Founded in 2007, Markon is a nationally recognized consulting firm headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. With employees in seven states and overseas, we support the intelligence community, defense and civilian sectors, as well as commercial clients.

Markon is committed to advancing clients through project management and business improvement services offered in a premiere, highly personal environment.

Join our winning team! We empower our employees to make decisions and encourage them to take on leadership roles. New ideas from employees are also encouraged.

Markon is a place where you can truly demonstrate your capabilities to your full potential. We are consistently named a Washington Post Top Workplace and Best Place to Work in Virginia because we put our employees first.

Markon offers an exceptional benefits package that ranks in the top tier of our industry.

Markon is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Description :

Markon is seeking a Sr. Accountant to support our Intelligence Customer in reviewing and reconciling assigned general ledger accounts to a customer's cash accounts and researching any variances in order to ensure accurate financial reporting.

Responsibilities :

• Perform daily, monthly, and quarterly review and reconciliation of assigned GL cash accounts.
• Compile monthly and quarterly metrics, including running and downloading reports from the U.S. Department of Treasury systems, updating cash balances in spreadsheets to verify the need for cash transfers, and preparing basic journal entries to move funds in the sponsor's accounting system and in the customer's system.
• Independently conduct research and analysis of variances.
• Communicate unreconciled items to the responsible offices.
• Prepare and review standard journal entries to ensure accurate monthly, quarter-end, and year-end reporting.
• Follow SOPs to perform moderate to complex tasks independently.
• Facilitate communication with our internal and external partners and must be team oriented.

Job Requirements

Requirements

• Prior accounting and financial reporting experience and / or Federal accounting experience.
• Ability to quickly gain a working knowledge of Sponsor financial policies, practices, and main financial systems.
• Conscientiousness and attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on customer support, organizational ability, teamwork, tack, and diplomacy.
• Ability to perform analytical tasks of moderate complexity, capable of working independently and exercising initiative while exhibiting sound / professional judgment.
• Intermediate proficiency with Outlook, Microsoft suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Strong working knowledge of Excel (using pivot tables and analyze data).
• Ability to perform basic tasks in Sponsor accounting system, and to run standard reports in Sponsor accounting systems.
• Ability to quickly gain a working knowledge of a variety of transactions, processes, and functionality.

Travel 0 - 10% Location Tysons, VA - Tysons, VA 22102 US (Primary)

Education Bachelor's Degree Job Type Full-time Career Level Experienced (Non-Manager) Category Finance Exemption Type Exempt Date Needed By 5 / 28 / 2024 Security Clearance TS / SCI with a Full Scope Polygraph