Team Leadership and Development: Lead, coach, and develop team members, supporting cross-training, succession planning, and team capability to ensure continuity and growth.
Contract Financial Oversight: Oversee the financial execution of the SEI contract, including funding administration, contract accounting, billing, receivables, cash activity, revenue recognition support, and related financial recordkeeping.
Business Operations Oversight: Oversee core business operations functions, including Accounts Payable and Travel, ensuring timely service delivery and operational effectiveness.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with Planning & Analysis, University Accounting, Contracts, and other stakeholders to resolve issues, align financial processes, and support effective financial administration.
Issue Resolution and Escalation: Serve as a key leader and escalation point for complex accounting, billing, receivables, payables, travel, and contract financial matters.
Operational Excellence: Identify and implement opportunities for automation, standardization, and improved service delivery across Accounting and Business Operations.
Who you are
Experienced Accounting Leader: You have significant progressive experience in accounting operations, financial controls, or accounting leadership, ideally in a government contracting, FFRDC, university-affiliated research, or similarly regulated environment.
CPA-Qualified Professional: You hold an active CPA license and bring strong technical accounting knowledge and judgment.
Collaborative Leader: You build strong relationships across teams, providing clear direction while working effectively with stakeholders to solve problems and move work forward.
Control-Oriented and Detail-Focused: You value accuracy, strong controls, and thoughtful process design, and you understand how to build reliable accounting and business operations.
Strategic and Practical: You can balance day-to-day operational needs with longer-term planning, process improvement, and team development.
Clear Communicator: You communicate effectively with staff, leadership, and partners, making complex accounting and finance topics understandable and actionable.
Growth-Minded: You are energized by building capability, improving systems, and creating a strong foundation for the future.
Who we are
The SEI helps advance software engineering principles and practices and serves as a national resource in software engineering, computer security, and process improvement. The SEI works closely with defense and government organizations, industry, and academia to continually improve software-intensive systems. Its core purpose is to help organizations improve software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire the right software, defect-free, within budget and on time, every time.
Location
- Arlington, VA, Pittsburgh, PA
- Job Function
- Financial Planning, Analysis, Accounting and Reporting
- Position Type
- Staff – Regular
- Full time/Part time
- Full time
- Pay Basis
More Information
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Carnegie Mellon University is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.
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