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Ascera
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Junior Staff Accountant
Ascera · St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
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In short
The staff accountant will manage day-to-day accounting tasks including accounts payable, customer billing, and collections across three entities. They are also responsible for preparing month-end journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting revenue recognition processes.
What they're looking for
MUST-HAVE SKILLS
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Candidates should have at least 2 years of bookkeeping or accounting experience and strong organizational skills. A bachelor's degree in accounting or finance is preferred.
About the employer
SP6
Systems Made Secure. Compliant. Resilient. · hiring as Ascera
SP6 is a niche consulting firm focused on Splunk; specifically, optimizing organizational data analytics capabilities for Security Operations, Observability, Fraud detection, Compliance analytics, and other use cases, depending on specific customer needs.
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SP6 is the proud recipient of Splunk's Services Partner of the Year Award for 2023, 2024, and 2025 in the Americas. Our solution capabilities include: Project-based Professional Services: Co-Managed Splunk, whereby SP6 co-manages customer Splunk environments, detections, and data governance when organizational staff requires additional expertise or bandwidth. Splunk license acquisition and management: If you’re looking to optimize the value of your investment in Splunk, SP6 has the award-winning expertise to ensure the best and most cost-effective business outcomes. Learn more at SP6.io
- INDUSTRY
- IT Services and IT Consulting
- COMPANY
- Privately Held
- FOUNDED
- 2016
- HEADQUARTERS
- St Petersburg, Florida
- SIZE
- 51-200
- OFFICES
- 2 on LinkedIn
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Questions about this role
- Is this Ascera role remote?
- Tagged hybrid.
- Does it sponsor visas?
- Listed as no visa sponsorship.
- What experience does it ask for?
- Listed as 2-5 years.
The posting, in full
Job Summary: SP6 is looking for a staff accountant to keep day-to-day accounting accurate and on time across our three entities: SP6, ASCERA and 112Cyber. You'll own accounts payable and Ramp expense processing, run customer billing and collections, process closed deals, support professional and managed services revenue recognition, and prepare month-end journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations. You'll report to the Assistant Controller.
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Job Summary:
SP6 is looking for a staff accountant to keep day-to-day accounting accurate and on time across our three entities: SP6, ASCERA and 112Cyber. You'll own accounts payable and Ramp expense processing, run customer billing and collections, process closed deals, support professional and managed services revenue recognition, and prepare month-end journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations. You'll report to the Assistant Controller.
Responsibilities:
Process accounts payable and expenses
- Enter vendor bills daily in Business Central, set up the weekly AP run, and make vendor payments.
- Enter monthly payroll and benefits bills, partner pay, and rent payments for SP6 and ASCERA.
- Review and code Ramp, check and banking activity daily, and book monthly Ramp accrual journal entries and vendor bills.
- Review AP statements weekly.
- Verify at month end that all open purchase orders should still be open.
Run billing, collections and closed deals
- Process closed deals.
- Onboard new customers and keep the new-customer and multi-year spreadsheets current.
- Prepare and send invoices and upload invoices to Ariba/Coupa and customer bill portals.
- Record customer payments daily and follow up on accounts receivable weekly.
- Prepare vendor GSA reporting.
- Review and close completed and open sales orders at month end.
Support revenue recognition and project billing
- Review weekly Business Central timesheets and prepare for the weekly timesheet meetings with the team.
- Prepare professional services billing and revenue recognition, and managed services journal entries.
- Prepare the monthly utilization report and final billable report.
Close the books
- Prepare month-end journal entries: intercompany, intercompany payroll, prepaid, fixed asset depreciation, loaned labor and sales commission reclasses.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts for all entities.
- Maintain prepaid and fixed asset schedules and allocate shared software costs across entities.
- Review the general ledger and wrap up the month-end checklist on schedule.
Support payroll, commissions and tax
- Review and approve hourly and internal employee timesheets.
- Prepare month-end commission documents and the AR sheet for bonuses.
- Reconcile COBRA accounts and calculate engineer holiday bonuses.
- Make quarterly state tax payments.
Qualifications:
- 2 years of bookkeeping or accounting experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance preferred
- Problem-solving skills
- Highly organized with exceptional teaming skills and project management skills
- Operates independently and efficiently to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously and successfully
- High attention to detail
- Data-driven and analytical
- Highly self-motivated; someone who takes ownership
Why SP6?
- Recognized as one of North America’s top professional service partners.
- The chance to be part of a winning team and a premier Splunk partner.
- Competitive salary.
- Quarterly Bonus plan.
- Excellent health insurance offerings.
- 401(k) with company match.
- 30 days of annual paid time off.
- Significant Training and Development and Certification attainment.
- Opportunity for long-term career advancement.
- Your contributions are felt and recognized by our growing company.
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