GovCon Finance Lead & AI-Driven Controller

Intrepid Prosperity; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intrepid Prosperity is seeking a hands-on Controller/Finance lead to run the accounting and back-office for two entities. You will supervise invoicing, billing, reconciliations, and payroll while overseeing Unanet ERP GovCon and implementing AI-enabled workflows under your control.

You will own the close process, ensure FAR and DCAA compliance, and partner with the CEO on financial strategy. Expect a high-trust environment with direct reporting to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with 2+ in government contracting.
• Hands-on Unanet experience as an operator or administrator, not just a report consumer.
• Demonstrated ownership or understanding of indirect rates: you have built or maintained fringe, overhead, and G&A pools, calculated provisional and actual rates, and can defend your pool and base decisions.
• Working command of FAR Part 31 cost principles and DCAA accounting system expectations.
• Experience across contract types, at minimum cost-plus and T&M.
• Full-cycle close ownership. You have closed a set of books yourself.
• Willingness to do the transactional work personally: AP entry, billing, reconciliations. There is no staff beneath this seat at hire.
• Real enthusiasm for AI tools, and the discipline to verify everything before you stand behind it.
• A record of owning compliance-critical work without errors slipping through, and discretion with sensitive financial and personnel data.
• Advanced Excel, and comfort operating without a large finance department: you build the schedule, reconcile the account, and write the memo.

Responsibilities

• Full accounting cycle for two legal entities: GL, AP, AR, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, and intercompany.
• Month-end and year-end close on a disciplined calendar: journal entries, reconciliations, supporting schedules, and monthly financial statements plus a combined view for ownership.
• Payroll across both companies, including Service Contract Act and certified payroll where applicable, and multi-state payroll tax.
• Cash management: bank reconciliations, treasury movement, and short-term cash forecasting.
• Maintain an accounting system that satisfies DCAA pre-award criteria (SF 1408): segregation of direct and indirect costs, compliant timekeeping, and unallowable cost screening under FAR Part 31.
• Revenue recognition and billing across cost-plus, T&M, labor-hour, and firm-fixed-price contracts under ASC 606, including WAWF/PIEE invoicing and prime contractor portals, with billing reconciled to CLIN structure and funding every cycle.
• Unbilled receivables, retainage, fee withholding, and limitation of funds and cost tracking.
• Prepare the annual incurred cost submission (ICE model) and support the rate settlement.
• Support DCAA and prime contractor audits, floor checks, and accounting system reviews. Be the person in the room.
• Own timekeeping and expense administration, including the audit trail required for compliance.
• Reduce, then govern, the use of outside Unanet consultants. You scope, direct, and review any retained support.
• Run and supervise the AI agent workflows that handle data entry, reconciliations, invoice prep, and reporting. Certify every output before it ships. The automation does the typing; you own the result.
• Make the model repeatable so each newly acquired entity onboards onto the same systems and workflows.
• Deliver closed, reconciled monthly numbers on a reliable calendar. Ownership builds the forecasts and investor reporting; you make sure the data underneath never has to be questioned.
• Contract-level cost and margin data (EAC inputs), backlog and funding tracking, and AI-drafted variance schedules for ownership review.
• Internal controls, accounting policies (timekeeping, travel and expense, unallowable costs), and documentation standards.
• Manage external CPAs, tax preparers, payroll providers, and bankers. Prepare the workpapers yourself.
• Support acquisition integration: opening balance sheets, purchase accounting, and standing up accounting at new portfolio companies.

Skills

Attention to detail

Owns problems first

Strong communication

AI/tool adoption mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance

CPA or CMA or progress toward one

Tools

Unanet ERP GovCon

Advanced Excel

Job description

Intrepid Prosperity is seeking a hands-on Controller/Finance lead to run the accounting and back-office for two entities. You will supervise invoicing, billing, reconciliations, and payroll while overseeing Unanet ERP GovCon and implementing AI-enabled workflows under your control.

You will own the close process, ensure FAR and DCAA compliance, and partner with the CEO on financial strategy. Expect a high-trust environment with direct reporting to leadership.