Castro & Company is a dedicated accounting, financial management advisory, and audit CPA firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, providing services to Federal Government clients. We are dedicated to helping our clients accomplish their strategic goals while providing our people with a diverse and inclusive environment to thrive and succeed.

We are seeking a Senior Accountant to support a federal agency by providing Federal accounting services. This is a great role for an individual who can perform work with minimal supervision while collaborating with colleagues to meet client expectations. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide Federal accounting services such as Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and General Ledger
• Update, maintain, and edit tables, fields, and various system records related to vendors and suppliers, accounting codes and accounting elements, and similar processes.
• Analyze a large volume of accounting transactions in computerized systems with a high degree of accuracy, researching variances for root cause(s), and preparing corrective entries in accordance with accounting principles with limited supervision or ongoing review.
• Establish, modify, and maintain accounting element tables.
• Performfinancialreconciliations and analyticalaccountingresponsibilities.
• Providerecommendations or correctiveactionsasneededtoclient management staff.
• Meet critical deadlines and produce quality, and detailed work product.
• Prepare and conducting presentations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or business-related field with 24 credits of Accounting.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in Federal financial management areas to include current knowledge of USSGL, GAAP as set forth by FASAB and standards of financial accounting as established by FASB.
• Ability to analyze and reconcile general ledger to subsidiary ledger and/or between two or more data sources (e.g., travel, payroll, overseas data, feeder systems); complete USSGL fund analytics.
• Experience using SQL queries, to research abnormal balances at the trial balance level and recommend corrective actions; analyze transactions, recommend accrual methodologies, and validate accrued amount / assumptions for various areas (e.g., domestic invoices, overseas payments, travel) in accordance with USSGL and GAAP.
• Experience supporting the annual financial statement and other financial related audits and reviews to include locating, reviewing and analyzing financial documentation located within a large core Accounting Systems Data Warehouse and otherwise supporting Prepared by Client (PBC) requests.
• Security Clearance: Must be able to pass a government suitability check to obtain Public Trust.

Castro & Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability and any other classification protected by law.