Senior Accountant

About Castelion

Castelion is bringing a new approach to defense development and production: one that focuses on short, iterative design cycles, rapid testing in development, and modern commercial manufacturing strategies for production at scale. We’re designing, building, and testing next generation long range strike weapons systems to give America and its Allies a definitive edge and deter future conflicts.

Senior Accountant

Castelion is seeking a Senior Accountant responsible for overseeing the month-end close process and ensuring accurate financial records across the balance sheet and profit and loss statements. This role includes performing payroll-related accounting, variance analysis, and supporting internal and external financial reporting. The Senior Accountant will work closely with the FP&A team to align budgets with actuals and help drive process improvements and automation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the month-end close procedures
• Assist and perform a wide variety of accounting tasks, from the Balance Sheet to the P&L. Full review of all areas and ensuring accurate books at all times
• Perform the payroll-related accounting entries and variance analysis
• Working closely with FP&A team to align budget and actuals along with supporting their needs around understanding the business unit/verticals impacts that are key drivers
• Take initiative to improve and own internal processes and drive automation projects
• Support internal monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting process, external quarterly reviews, and annual financials statement audit

What you need to bring:

We're looking for a candidate who has experience with the following:

• CPA or in process of obtaining a CPA designation
• 3+ years of experience in a similar position or audit
• Strong financial reporting knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of Excel
• Bias to action - high initiative and resourcefulness
• Ability to work under pressure, manage priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail, analytical and organizational skills
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills are very important. You will need to be in constant communication with all stakeholders to have visibility of the business needs and risks
• Sense of collaboration and teamwork
• Ability to exercise discretion and confidentiality
• Adept at handling sensitive documents

Even better if you have, but not necessary:

• Experience with NetSuite
• CPA completed

All employees are granted long-term stock incentives as part of their employment as Castelion. All employees receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance, and the company offers three weeks of paid time off per year.

Leadership Qualities

Bias to Action and Creative Problem Solving . Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to breakthrough ideas that are ultimately implemented. Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains. Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support.

High Commitment, High Initiative . A successful candidate will have a genuine passion for Castelion’s mission and consistently look for ways to contribute to the company’s technical goals and prevent hardware blockers. Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere. Strong sense of accountability and integrity.

Clear Communicator . Proactively communicates blockers. Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers. Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships. Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity.

ITAR Requirements:

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Employment with Castelion is governed on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.