Senior Accountant, Government Contract Accounting
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Urrly
Washington, DC, US
Summary
The Senior Accountant will manage month-end closes, balance-sheet reconciliations, and project reporting for government-contractor clients. They will also handle day-to-day accounting tasks including payroll, AP/AR, and ensuring compliance with GAAP and government-contract accounting requirements.
Job Description
Senior Accountant, Government Contract Accounting
Build your GovCon accounting career while helping a rapidly growing, private equity-backed company expand its consulting practice. Your work will directly support government-contractor clients—and help establish the reliable delivery that growth depends on.
Full-time | Fully remote | $95,000–$115,000 base + 5–10% target performance bonus
Own the technical delivery that keeps government contractors running: accurate books, dependable closes, and clear project reporting. You’ll work across client engagements alongside an Accounting Manager or Controller, building depth in government-contract accounting without carrying a client portfolio or staff-management mandate.
What you’ll do
- Deliver month-end close, balance-sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and close packages.
- Handle payroll, labor distribution, AP/AR, project setup, and day-to-day accounting.
- Prepare job-cost and management reports; explain results and answer clients’ technical questions.
- Apply GAAP and government-contract accounting requirements; support audit workpapers and special projects.
- Manage deadlines across engagements and help improve how the work gets done.
What you bring
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience with government-contract exposure.
- Hands-on GAAP, FAR, DCAA, and CAS knowledge, including cost allowability and indirect cost allocation.
- Experience with Unanet, QuickBooks, Deltek Costpoint, or a comparable accounting system.
- A bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent related experience.
- U.S. citizenship, as required by client contracts.
Prior success delivering accounting services in a consulting environment is strongly preferred. Unanet plus QuickBooks is especially valuable. CPA preferred, not required.
Why this move
Gain depth across different government-contractor clients, work closely with experienced Accounting Managers and Controllers, and contribute ideas that improve the practice’s delivery. As your expertise and the business grow, take on more complex engagements and broader responsibility from a strong technical starting point.
Performance bonus is a target, not guaranteed compensation.
Compensation
Base salary is $95,000–$115,000 annually, plus a 5–10% target performance bonus.
At Urrly, fairness matters. We use AI to review every application against the same clear requirements for the role. Candidates are evaluated only on job-related factors such as skills, certifications, and experience, not personal attributes.
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Urrly is a portfolio-wide executive search partner for lower middle market private equity firms.
We help PE-backed companies execute faster by hiring target-state leaders. These are executives who have already scaled the exact type of business your portfolio company is becoming.
Our work is most concentrated in operationally complex sectors, including healthcare services and regulated business models, where execution mistakes are expensive and leadership gaps surface quickly.
Traditional executive search optimizes for access and pedigree. Urrly optimizes for execution.
The result is lower leadership risk, faster time-to-impact, and improved exit readiness across the portfolio.
Founded
2022
Company size
2-10 employees
Industry
Executive Search Services
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Phoenix, Arizona
Urrly is a portfolio-wide executive search partner for lower middle market private equity firms.
We help PE-backed companies execute faster by hiring target-state leaders. These are executives who have already scaled the exact type of business your portfolio company is becoming.
Our work is most concentrated in operationally complex sectors, including healthcare services and regulated business models, where execution mistakes are expensive and leadership gaps surface quickly.
Traditional executive search optimizes for access and pedigree. Urrly optimizes for execution.
The result is lower leadership risk, faster time-to-impact, and improved exit readiness across the portfolio.
Founded
2022
Company size
2-10 employees
Industry
Executive Search Services
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Phoenix, Arizona