Sr Business Partner, Accounting

HighPoint professionals focus on helping government agencies and companies implement their most critically strategic initiatives. The role of Senior Business Partner, Accounting contributes to HighPoint by being responsible for a broad range of accounting duties and oversight in a government services contracting environment. This position will report to HighPoint’s Vice President, Accounting & Finance.

• Lead month-end and year-end closing activities, including journal entry posting, balance sheet reconciliations, and bank reconciliation; validate proper revenue and expenditure recognition at month-end.
• Serve as a technical expert on the company’s Costpoint accounting system, providing guidance on general ledger configuration and reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, project setup, and Deltek Time and Expense.
• Recommend appropriate revenue recognition methods for government contracting professional services projects.
• Maintain general ledger and review of postings.
• Backup responsibility of other accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, cash forecasting, and project accounting responsibilities.
• Lead interim and year-end internal financial audit activities and the annual corporate financial controls audit, as well as the external audit closing and reporting at year-end.
• Customer invoice generation, cash receipts processing.
• Provide guidance on and ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), and company practices and policies.
• Review the effectiveness of internal system and policy controls, and develop new controls and policies to ensure compliance with GAAP, FAR, and other applicable regulations.
• Ownership of accounting process improvements and automation.
• Mentoring accounting staff without direct supervisory responsibility.