What you'll do:
- Manage and execute key accounting operations, including the monthly global close and consolidation process (with intercompany eliminations and foreign currency translation), general ledger accounting, review of accrual entries, and oversight of cash transaction processing and reconciliations.
- Partner with the broader finance team to ensure a timely close and reporting cycle and assist in the execution of team objectives.
- Assist in the implementation, documentation, and maintenance of internal controls in preparation for future SOX compliance requirements.
- Contribute to the implementation, enhancement, and ongoing optimization of accounting systems and processes.
- Support change management initiatives through clear documentation and adherence to governance practices.
- Promote quality and accuracy across the organization through ongoing review, verification, and reconciliation activities.
- Stay up to date on industry best practices and emerging accounting trends.
- Perform additional tasks as needed to support the company’s strategic objectives.
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (preferred), Finance, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and experience working within a robust internal control environment; familiarity with SOX compliance is a plus.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- High level of initiative and self-motivation, with demonstrated communication and collaboration abilities.
- Proven experience coordinating with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
- Ability to manage projects from inception to completion while incorporating feedback from multiple sources.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize competing demands, and meet deadlines consistently.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Active CPA license.
- Experience in aerospace & defense industries.
- Familiarity with project-based accounting.
- Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex issues, interpret operational needs, and implement effective solutions.
- Proven decisiveness in resolving business challenges, making informed decisions, and establishing clear priorities.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and experience within a robust internal control environment
- Familiarity with SOX compliance
- Excellent time management and ability to manage multiple priorities independently
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- High initiative, self-motivation, and demonstrated communication and collaboration abilities
- Proven experience coordinating with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders
- Ability to manage projects from inception to completion incorporating feedback
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize competing demands, and meet deadlines consistently
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Active CPA license
- Experience in aerospace and defense industries
- Familiarity with project-based accounting
- Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex issues and implement effective solutions
- Proven decisiveness in resolving business challenges and setting priorities
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support, with company materials describing excellent coverage. Feedback suggests these offerings are comprehensive and consistently highlighted across official and third-party benefit lists.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full-time hires, with RSU structures and tools like Carta Tax intended to improve understanding and tax timing. Feedback suggests this broad-based ownership approach is a notable component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits include paid parental leave, fertility support, childcare benefits, family medical leave, and onsite resources such as a Mother's Room. Feedback suggests the family-oriented offerings are more expansive than basic coverage.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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