Communications Senior Consultant, Controllership

Our Deloitte Finance Transformation team practices to help chief financial officers, controllers, and finance teams define and execute their finance and global business services agendas and strategies. You will work with leading-class teams and solutions, helping clients navigate challenging environments, market uncertainty, technology development, and regulatory considerations to unlock value. Your work may span strategy, operations, process design, and technology as we partner with clients to transform finance.

Work You'll Do

As a Senior Consultant, Controllership on the Controllership and Treasury Transformation team, you will be responsible for:

• Analyze financial transactions and supporting documentation to determine appropriate proprietary and budgetary accounting treatment and general ledger impact
• Prepare, validate, and post journal entries and reconciliations to support quarter-end and year-end close activities
• Support governmental financial reporting in alignment with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-136 and internal reporting requirements
• Execute controls and documentation activities in alignment with OMB Circular A-123 and established standard operating procedures
• Follow standard operating procedures and accounting policies to produce complete, accurate, timely, and audit-ready workpapers
• Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve accounting variances, address data issues, and improve close and reporting processes

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Controllership and Treasury Transformation offering modernizes the finance function to support the evolving business objectives of the organization. We work with the CFO, CAO, controller, and treasurer to develop an efficient, high quality, data-driven, tech-enabled controllership and treasury function that empowers our clients to drive more value to their business partners and to their investors.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required :

• Bachelor's degree
• Active Secret clearance required
• 4+ years experience experience performing quarterly financial statement reconciliations and analyzing trends and anomalies in the defense space
• 4+ years experience preparing, validating, and posting journal entries and reconciliations in support of quarter-end and year-end close activities
• 4+ years experience producing audit-ready workpapers in accordance with standard operating procedures and accounting policies
• Ability to work onsite 50% of the time in Arlington, Virginia
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience collaborating with federal agencies to address financial remediation initiatives
• Experience briefing client leadership on project deliverables and high-priority tasks
• Experience resolving accounting variances and data issues
• Experience supporting proprietary and budgetary accounting treatment
• Experience improving close and reporting processes

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $97,700 to $162,800.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.