About This Job

Avum, Inc. is seeking an Accountant/Cost Accountant to manage financial transactions, payroll, and billing to ensure accurate and timely payments for all corporate accounts. The candidate should be comfortable working with a diverse team of individuals who work both locally and remotely. We are seeking an individual who will work with executives in presenting new and innovative ways to organize and manage accounting activities. An individual who has the background and confidence to make suggestions for process improvement is highly desirable.

The ability to always learn and share knowledge with peers in a fast-paced atmosphere is required to be successful in this dynamic role. Avum provides an exciting, fast-paced environment and rewards dedication and innovation.

Candidates must be U.S. Citizens and be able to pass a background investigation.

NOTE: This fully remote role requires the candidate to participate in meetings virtually using tools like Microsoft Teams. Online availability during the core hours of 9 AM PST/PDT to 5 PM PST/PDT, Monday through Friday, will be required.

Example of Activities

  • Provide management of all corporate accounts including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Asset Management, and Payroll.
  • Develop and plan strategy for ensuring all transactions occur on time.
  • Work with the Human Resources Specialist to assist with payroll processing.
  • Assist in annual Financial and DCAA audits as necessary.
  • Possess a working knowledge of GAAP, FAR and CAS.
  • Evaluate appropriate revenue recognition methodology, ensuring compliance with contractual commitments, including GAAP, FAR, and CAS.
  • Construct data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system.
  • Create, maintain, and follow sound internal controls for revenue recognition and project accounting procedures.
  • Assist in yearly budget and ongoing forecast efforts to ensure controlled cash flow, avoiding underruns and overruns.
  • Prepare P&L and balance sheet analytics for corporate accounting, to include explanations for significant variances to budget, prior reporting periods and/or prior years.
  • Prepare G/L account reconciliations and journal entries, to include recurring monthly entries and inter-company reconciliation with a corporate accounting team.
  • Provide costs for preparing bids, proposals, or applications for potential awards, including the development of data necessary to support direct and indirect rates for pricing cost-reimbursement contracts (i.e., CPFF, CPAF, CPIF, etc.).

Required Skills

  • Clear understanding of accounting procedures and internal controls.
  • Ability to work in collaboration with other team members, or work independently to meet project requirements and expectations.
  • Possess excellent oral and written communications skills, with the ability to elaborate on a broad scope of activities.
  • Must be very thorough, meticulous and attentive to detail as appropriate for all work activities.
  • Quantitative analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Proven ability to communicate effectively with technical, operational, and management audiences with broad and varied backgrounds.
  • Possess a broad knowledge of Microsoft Excel with at least 3 years of experience using it for accounting purposes.
  • Technically capable of employing new tools and related technologies supporting the office, specifically including computer-related activities on the Apple Mac or MS Windows platforms)
  • Ability to apply experience in Microsoft product suite, including MS Project, MS Office (specifically Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
  • Advanced knowledge and experience with QuickBooks is a major plus.

Place of Performance

The primary place of performance will be the Avum office in Agoura Hills, California, with the option of having the individual work remotely from a home office. Our priority is acquiring the most qualified candidate to satisfactorily perform the required tasks, including team collaboration, regardless of the candidate’s geographical location.

Educational/Work Experience

Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university with a curriculum or major field of study which provides substantial knowledge useful in system development and is closely related to the work detailed above, and/or in a computer science, information systems, physical science, engineering or mathematics–intensive discipline, or an applicable training certificate from an accredited training institution.

Salary

Starting salaries for this position range from $62,400 - $104,000 and are commensurate with experience. The position is full-time, salaried, with benefits.

The Company

Avum, Inc. is a certified Small Disadvantaged Business who provides advanced software, database, and business intelligence systems to the DoD/Military, Intelligence Community, and Federal, State, Local and Commercial clients since 1991. We manage technical programs and projects and provide strategic guidance to support our customer's system engineering efforts. We provide sustainment in mission-critical and secure environments. We support information assurance activities and accreditation for the systems we deploy. Our engineers conduct rapid prototyping and Agile customer-focused iterations to produce complex applications, predictive analytic data environments, and NIST SP 800-53 compliant system architecture deployed within Navy and DoD networks. We have subject matter experts in multiple domains and technical expertise across all core technology stacks. We specialize in application development, large-scale database design, data engineering, and data visualization. Through results-driven, agile collaboration, the company continually researches and deploys secure solutions that exceed customer expectations in meeting or beating customer-allocated budgets and schedules. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity in providing our customers with service that consistently earns us the highest possible performance ratings. Please visit our webpage at http://www.avum.com to learn more.