Senior Accountant / Controller
About the role
Senior accountant role partnering with CFO and leadership to streamline accounting systems and close processes, including government contract cost accounting, R&D, procurement, and monthly close; managing external bookkeeping and tax support.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for ensuring the timely completion of all month-end financial reporting tasks, and ensure department goals and objectives are achieved
- Work directly with the CFO and 3rd party bookkeeping staff in the accounting close process to ensure timely and accurate reporting of all monthly accounting financial information for Turion Space.
- Prepare journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, reserves, and foreign currency conversions
- Support service providers to meet international regulatory and tax compliance needs, including VAT/GST and maintaining proper documentation for local country tax
- Support continuous process, documentation, and audit improvements to meet a rapidly growing team
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business or similar
- 3+ years of accounting or FP&A experience
- Experience with heavy R&D and/or technology corporations
- Experience with Government and/or Department of Defense-specific (DCAA) cost accounting practices and standards
Skills
About Turion Space
Moving Things Around in Space, Imaging Space Objects When We're Not
Turion Space is building spacecraft to move things around in space and image space objects when they’re not, and focused on developing the dual-use technology required to ensure a sustainable future in space. They aim to build a strong foundation selling space domain awareness imagery data while advancing their technology towards an affordable solution for orbital debris removal and eventually asteroid mining. The founding team originates from SpaceX, and after going through the Y-combinator accelerator in summer 2021 went on to raise a $6.2M seed round and is launching their first DROID satellite in early 2023.
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