**Description** Join our Accounting team where you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of our accounting and administrative processes. Our Accounting and Admin Teams support our engineers, scientists and production staff in a fun, but fast-paced working environment. As a Staff Accountant you will work closely with the Admin and Accounting Team, as well as the Director of Finance. + **What you’ll do as a Staff Accountant** + Inventory Management, including cycle counts, analysis of stock status and WIP reports, inventory reconciliation + Assist with preparation of monthly financial reports + Work closely with other members of the AP and AR team to ensure compliance with GAAP and ARA policies + Creation and analysis of use fee reports + Creation and analysis of weekly labor and sales reports + Work with other members of the Admin and Accounting team to create work instructions and training documents + Management of assets + Monthly journal entries + Assist with annual budget preparation and tracking + Assist with product billing and collections + **Staff Accountant Requirements** + Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business management with 2-4 years' experience; experience with Microsoft products, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Sharepoint + **Staff Accountant Preferences** + Experience with Costpoint or similar Accounting and Manufacturing software; knowledge of Smartsheet, Power BI **C** **ompany & Division Information** Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 2,300 employee-owners and continues to grow. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics. At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership spawns greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees contributions not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please apply at careers.ara.com. **Qualifications** **Behaviors** **Required** + **Team Player:** Works well as a member of a group + **Detail Oriented:** Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well **Preferred** + **Enthusiastic:** Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest + **Dedicated:** Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity **Motivations** **Required** + **Self-Starter:** Inspired to perform without outside help **Preferred** + **Growth Opportunities:** Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility + **Flexibility:** Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals **Education** **Required** + Bachelors or better in Accounting **Experience** **Required** + 2-4 years: Experience related to the position Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)