Junior Accountant

EchoStar has an exciting opportunity for an Jr Accountant in our Hughes Network Systems division. This role will be responsible for ensuring revenue recognition. This position will be located in our Germantown, MD office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review executed customer contracts and agreements to ensure appropriate revenue recognition treatment and to identify and communicate revenue recognition issues.
• Partner with program managers, contract administrators, and finance counterparts to ensure proper revenue and cost recognition for all fully executed agreements.
• Perform technical review of contracts over certain threshold to ensure revenue is appropriately recognized.
• Ensure the integrity of key processes by understanding systems, flow of transactions, internal controls.
• Prepare recurring and period-end journal entries and revenue analysis, including Lessor accounting.
• Prepare asset and liability balance sheet reconciliations and roll-forward schedules, to include recommending and preparing adjusting journal entries.
• Review progress billings, unbilled and programs in process (PIP) balances for accuracy and abnormalities.
• Ensure that contractual backlog is properly computed and reported.
• Interface with internal and external auditors.

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• 2+ years of related accounting experience, including significant exposure to revenue recognition issues – predominantly at large public companies
• 2+ years of working with large, global ERP systems (Oracle or SAP preferred); Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning
• 2+ years public accounting
• CPA/CMA (or international equivalent, or in progress).

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience at the Big Four
• Proven ability to be decisive, resolve issues, and deliver on commitments and deadlines
• Demonstrated creativity and flexibility in problem-solving and project collaboration
• Highly skilled in data analysis and proven ability to present data in a clear, concise and compelling manner to all levels of management

• Comfortable in discussing issues, strategy and negotiating with Company executives
• Proven self-starter who doesn’t need much guidance to get projects done in an excellent manner
• Superior writing skills
• Superior Excel modeling skills

Will be eligible for discretionary bonus, with funding based on company performance.