The American Center for Mobility (ACM) is a global development center for transforming the way industries advance safe, sustainable, and secure mobility technologies. ACM offers: an Advanced Mobility Proving Ground with test environments featuring specialized infrastructure, equipment, facilities and resources; An EV Charging testbed for testing EV charger performance; An innovation and technology campus with an industrial tech park for the co-location of mobility companies; Event and demonstration areas for showcasing mobility technologies and convening industry activities. The American Center for Mobility is open to private industry, start-ups, government, standards bodies, and academia.

Position: Accounting Clerk, Reports to Proving Grounds Operations Manager with matrixed support to outsource corporate finance and accounting.

Responsible for providing general accounting clerical support for operations of a global development center for safe, sustainable, and secure mobility including the operational aspects of the facilities, proving grounds and other mobility test environments. This position will support internal operations and the outsourced corporate finance & accounting function with accurate and timely information.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with other staff to maintain accurate, up-to-date, operating revenue forecasts
• Track and report operating revenue performance compared to corporate targets.
• Work with outsourced finance team to ensure timely and accurate invoicing, provide feedback to clients when requested to justify invoicing, work with sales and partners to ensure clients are properly setup to be invoiced and collect on aged receivables.
• Coordinate with ACM grant team and outsourced finance team for accurate and timely grant and other financial reporting requirements.
• Support the ACM grant team for grants and government contract reporting needs including actuals, forecasts and budgets.
• Support operations budget management and monthly variance analysis
• Coordinate with outsourced finance team for vendor purchase orders and payments for operations & maintenance.
• Manage customer portals for purchase orders and payments requests.
• Evaluating financial operations to recommend best-practices, identify issues and strategize solutions, and help organizations run efficiently
• Offering input on cost reduction, revenue enhancement, and profit maximization?
• Conducting revenue forecasting and risk analysis assessments?
• Support maintenance of accurate tracking of corporate physical assets

Skills and Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or related field or relevant work experience.

3+ years' experience in accounting role

Accountant General Skills and Qualifications:?

Accounting, Corporate Finance, Reporting Skills, Attention to Detail, Deadline-Oriented, Reporting Research Results, , Confidentiality, Time Management, Data Entry Management, General Math Skills?

Provides financial information to management by researching and analyzing accounting data; preparing reports.?

Experience in?accounting?at a professional level, including journal entries, account reconciliation, reporting and analysis or equivalent experience?

Federal grant accounting experience a plus

Ability to assess business processes and implement improvements and controls?

Strong understanding of US GAAP and internal controls?

Experience managing budgets and revenue reporting

Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate accounting results to both accounting and non-accounting customers at various levels of the organization?

Strong problem solving and analytical skills?

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