Amentum

Enterprise Accounting, Senior Accountant - Intercompany

Posted on: 4 Aug 2025

Fort Worth, TX

Job Description

Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative technology solutions, trusted by the United States and its allies to address their most significant and complex challenges in science, security and sustainability. Headquartered in Virginia, we have more than 53,000 employees in approximately 80 countries across all 7 continents.

The Enterprise Accounting, Senior Accountant - Intercompany is responsible for applying accounting principles to prepare and process complex accounting transactions, analyze information, and create financial reports.  Additionally, you will be called upon to lead projects or team projects as needed. This is a remote-telework role, but you must live within a 3-hour driving distance to either our Fort Worth, TX or our Chantilly, VA Amentum office. US Citizenship is required to apply.

Principal Accountabilities:

Apply knowledge of accounting principles to activities associated with maintaining ledger accounts and developing financial statements and reports.
Compile and analyze financial information to create/process accounting transactions, analyze business results, and develop management reports.
Perform month/quarter/annual close activities which may include analyzing accounts, performing calculations, preparing journal entries, performing account reconciliation, preparing reports and financial statements, and resolving issues as needed.
Establish and maintain accurate financial records; Create financial reports and statements that summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position.
Assist Financial Reporting and other departments with obtaining accounting data for external or internal reporting and audits.
Review work prepared by others and provide constructive comments and/or suggestions to foster efficiencies and improvements for the department.
Comply with government regulations and internal controls (e.g., SOX).
Assist other team members with the development and installation of accounting systems, methods, procedures and controls.
Position may be assigned to specific accounting function (e.g., close/process, general ledger, payroll and reporting/support) and may require additional or specific job duties related to assigned function which are not aforementioned.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

Ability to perform data extraction and manipulation, analyze financial data, and generate reports.
Ability to analyze variances to budgets/forecasts/accruals, explain to management, and create corrective action plan.
Demonstrate proficiency in finance and accounting relational databases (Costpoint, Cognos, HFM, Blackline) and Microsoft applications.
Ability to work with numbers and complete assignments with attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
Ability to manipulate, interpret, and analyze data in Excel.
Strong analytical and organizational skills to oversee and balance multiple work assignments.
Knowledge of General Accepted Accounting principles (GAAP) required.  Knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Joint Travel Regulations (JTR), and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) a plus.
Effective decision making and problem solving.
Ability to organize and prioritize multiple work assignments, work with little supervision, and work well under pressure.
Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels throughout the organization.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
Five (5) years of accounting experience.
US Citizenship is required to apply.
CPA or CPA candidate preferred.

       

Amentum

Germantown, MD

Amentum supports the most critical missions of government and commercial organizations world wide.

Amentum is a premier global government and private-sector partner whose experience, passion and purpose drive mission success. We operate, serve, maintain, protect and support the most discerning and critical programs in Nuclear & Environment, Mission Support & Sustainment, Threat Mitigation, Mission Assurance, Strategic Capabilities Engineering in Critical Infrastructures, Facilities, and Ranges here and abroad. Amentum’s culture of safety, operational excellence, and ethics was formed throughout our 116-year heritage and sharpened by our unrelenting dedication to the customer’s mission.

At Amentum, we stand for operational excellence at every facet of the mission. It’s not about just getting the job done, but about empowering missions to accomplish results and positive outcomes for our customers.

With unrelenting dedication, we also support secure supply chains that take advantage of the most appropriate technology while being driven by people that have lived with the outcomes as opposed to just working in them. We also maintain and operate facilities and equipment that enables mission, doing it in ways that extend the useful lifespans while updating it to face modern challenges.

No matter the mission, with Amentum, mission excellence is achieved. See some of our project highlights below:

Although Amentum is new, our heritage dates back to the early 20th Century, with roots in iconic American companies. We honed our reputation throughout the Golden Age of Innovation, establishing deep relationships with customers in the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy.

In more recent years, we became a preeminent government contractor as URS and later joined with the world’s premier integrated infrastructure company, AECOM. We honed our values of operational excellence, mission focus, and successful execution underpinned by a strong sense of safety and integrity.

On Feb. 1, 2020, Amentum was born. Preserving our culture of excellence and commitment to safety and ethical business, Amentum remains a trusted partner to U.S. federal government agencies, allied governments and corporations worldwide supporting critical programs of national significance across defense, security, intelligence, energy, and environment. Headquartered in Germantown, Md., we are more than 20,000 professionals in 48 states and 28 foreign countries and territories working together to ensure the success of our customers’ most vital missions.