Clearance: Public Trust Required

Location: Washington D.C./Hybrid

Senior Accountant - Hybrid #908

NTIA Agile Mission Support Services

Position Summary

The Senior Accountant provides senior-level accounting and financial-management operations support to NTIA. The position helps ensure the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, traceability, and regulatory compliance of financial data and reports used for budget execution, portfolio oversight, resource decisions, audit activities, and executive reporting.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform complex accounting analyses, reconciliations, research, and validation of financial transactions, balances, obligations, expenditures, and supporting documentation.
• Support financial-management operations, budget execution, portfolio management, resource planning, and recurring or ad hoc financial reporting.
• Analyze variances, anomalies, aging items, and data-quality issues; document findings and coordinate corrective actions with NTIA stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain financial reports, schedules, working papers, standard operating procedures, and audit-ready supporting records.
• Assist with data calls, month-end and year-end activities, funding reviews, internal-control activities, and responses to management or audit inquiries.
• Extract, organize, validate, and reconcile data from Oracle Federal Financials and other Government systems; ensure consistent methodologies across reporting periods.
• Translate detailed accounting information into clear summaries, visualizations, and decision-support products for program and executive audiences.
• Coordinate with budget, program, acquisition, and administrative personnel to resolve discrepancies and improve end-to-end financial workflows.
• Protect sensitive financial information and ensure contractor-created work products are properly identified and handled.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
• At least seven years of progressively responsible accounting or financial-management experience, including substantial experience supporting federal accounting operations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of federal financial-management practices, budget execution, reconciliations, internal controls, financial reporting, and audit support.
• Experience analyzing high-volume financial data, resolving discrepancies, documenting conclusions, and producing accurate, timely reports.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience working with enterprise financial systems.
• Strong written communication, analytical reasoning, attention to detail, and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the Public Trust designation or security clearance required for the assigned work.

Desired Qualifications

• Current CPA, CGFM, CDFM, or similar accounting or Government financial-management credential.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Federal Financials (Business Application Systems), PRISM, or other Department of Commerce financial/acquisition platforms.
• Experience supporting federal audit readiness, corrective-action plans, or compliance with GAAP, FASAB guidance, OMB requirements, and applicable federal standards.
• Experience developing Power BI or Tableau financial dashboards and automating recurring reports.
• Experience supporting NTIA or another Department of Commerce bureau.