Government Cost Accountant

🕒 October 2

🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $105k - $125k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💲 Accountant / Accounting

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Ricardo Defense Inc

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51 - 200 employees

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

🏭 Manufacturing

Aerospace • Defense • Manufacturing

Ricardo Defense Inc is committed to ensuring a safe future for those who protect us and for future generations. They address the key safety and security challenges of the 21st Century through improved readiness, automation deployment, and the integration of complex systems. The company produces software, offers technical services, and delivers material solutions that protect lives while reducing costs and minimizing waste.

📋 Description

• Support the Controller and Director of FP&A across the cost accounting structure in Deltek Costpoint • Maintain and reconcile indirect cost pools including fringe, overhead, and G&A • Calculate and reconcile actual indirect rates against provisional and billing rates • Provide analysis and data for provisional billing rate development and annual rate budgets • Confirm allocation bases are applied consistently • Maintain Costpoint organization and department structures • Evaluate cost pool and rate impacts of organizational or account structure changes • Maintain documentation of organizational and indirect rate structures • Apply FAR Part 31 cost principles and flag proposed cost treatment • Identify and segregate expressly unallowable costs under FAR Part 31.205 • Apply Cost Accounting Standards consistently and surface inconsistencies • Support written cost accounting policies and unallowable-cost documentation • Prepare and reconcile data for the annual Incurred Cost Submission using the DCAA ICE model • Support DCAA and other incurred cost audits by gathering data and preparing schedules • Perform data integrity reviews of labor, cost, and organizational data in Costpoint • Design and run periodic data queries and checks • Prepare journal entries related to indirect cost pools, allocations, and rate true-ups • Support month-end and year-end close activities • Assist with rate proposals, budget rates, and ad hoc cost analysis for contract pricing and proposals

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Finance, or a related field • Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret Clearance if required • Minimum of five years of cost accounting experience in a government contracting environment • Hands-on experience with Deltek Costpoint, including indirect cost pool reconciliation and organization/department structure • Demonstrated experience supporting an Incurred Cost Submission (ICE model), such as building schedules or performing reconciliations • Working knowledge of FAR Part 31 cost principles and applicable Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) • Experience calculating and reconciling indirect rates against actual cost pools and provisional/billing rates • Strong analytical and data-validation skills • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills • High attention to detail, good judgment, and comfort working directly with and reporting to the Controller • Experience supporting a DCAA incurred cost audit or accounting system review preferred • Exposure to CAS Disclosure Statement content or maintenance preferred • Prior aerospace, defense, or federal government contracting experience preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits • Company Paid Life and AD&D • Company Paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability • Flexible Spending & HSA Accounts • Legal & ID Shield Services • 401k with Company Match • Paid Holidays • Paid Time Off (PTO) • Veterans encouraged to apply • Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer