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Controller, Government Consulting Company
High Street Consulting Group, LLC
http://www.highstreetconsulting.com
Send letter of interest and resume to careers@highstreetconsulting.com
High Street is a growing transportation planning, policy, and analytics consulting firm. High Street’s clients
include federal, state, and local transportation agencies such as state departments of transportation and
the Federal Highway Administration, among others.
Job Brief
We are looking for an experienced Controller to join our team. The Controller will report to the CFO and
be responsible for all accounting functions working closely with our accounting team and reviewing the
work of project accountants, accounting clerks, and transaction specialists. The Controller will prepare
reports for company executives and adhere to and develop standards and processes for proper financial
management. Their work is essential to maintain the financial wellness and integrity of High Street.
Responsibilities
- Oversee all day-to-day accounting functions to ensure consistency, accuracy, and performance in
accordance with professional accounting methods, standards, and principles - Conduct month-end and year-end financial close activities and reporting
- Prepare, review, and analyze financial reports and statements to ensure accuracy and
completeness - Monitor and analyze accounting data
- Process payroll and 401k contributions
- Oversee bank, credit card, and other balance sheet account reconciliations
- Establish and maintain fiscal files and records to document transactions
- Work with external indirect cost rate auditors to provide requested information and respond to
questions ensuring timely completion of audit - Provide tax accountant with annual comprehensive tax working files and respond to questions
ensuring timely completing of tax filing - Assess current practices and procedures, and make recommendations for improvements
- Perform ad hoc analysis and projects as requested
Requirements
- Prior work experience as Controller, Accounting Manager, Accounting Supervisor for a
government contractor - Proven knowledge of accounting principles, practices, standards, laws, and regulations
- Proficiency in GAAP and related professional accounting standards and regulations
- Demonstrated knowledge of project cost accounting and federal cost accounting principles, including DCAA, FAR, and allowability of costs under government contracts; Working knowledge
of the AASHTO Audit Guide preferred - Experience with accounting software, ERP systems, and databases required; Unanet preferred
- Ability to manipulate and analyze large data sets using advanced Excel skills required
- High attention to detail and accuracy required
- Strong time management and organizational skills
- Great interpersonal and verbal communication skills
Educational Background and Experience Level
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, or a related field
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience
- CPA license required
- CGMA preferred
- Continuing education certifications from accredited institutions preferred
Location
High Street operates in a virtual office environment. The position will be located either in a home office or
co-working office space and will support staff across the U.S. High Street’s accounting team is located on
the east coast.
Data Visualization Analyst
High Street is a consulting firm that provides data-driven strategic decision-making support to public agency owners of America’s transportation system. Data visualization is a growing feature in much of the work we do. We are known nationally for cutting edge solutions that help our clients overcome complex policy and planning challenges. If you are a self-driven data visualization enthusiast looking for an out-of-the-ordinary job where you get to make a difference by helping to solve some of the country’s toughest transportation challenges, High Street is the place for you! Members of our team can live/work where they choose, and we never churn out ‘cookie cutter’ work. Above all, we prize multi-disciplinary collaboration on every project across our diverse group of policy experts, data designers, planners, web developers, and data scientists to craft creative and effective solutions that delight our clients.
A few examples of recent data visualization work produced by our team include an ESRI ‘story-map’ that uses dense travel data to show how investments in regional transportation improvements benefit the Phoenix, AZ region (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1121f240a00d45a3bd9d2a0e13549c8a) and a detailed ‘drill down’ visual map of the Federal Highway Administration’s data assets (https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/datagov/dataelements.cfm). We want to hear from you if you think you’d be a good fit for supporting these kinds of projects.
Work Responsibilities
Each assignment we produce is unique; adaptability to changing work responsibilities on every task is a must for this job. You will typically juggle several projects concurrently with varied deadlines and priority levels. Work assignments will include developing layouts and graphics for public-facing documents, front-end web design, data visualization, and presentation design to support projects and proposals. On any given project, your responsibilities might include:
- • Working with large amounts of information to find creative ways to show “the big picture”
- • Cleaning and joining datasets
- • Developing data visualizations in Power BI, Tableau, ArcGIS or other digital platforms
- • Interacting with clients to understand their data visualization needs and create solutions
- • Programming lightweight applications with JavaScript, R Shiny, etc.
- • Looking at data trends and relationships and coming to new conclusions based on findings
High Street’s team and clients are located throughout the United States and this position may require occasional travel, but it will primarily be work from home.
Qualifications
- • Masters degree in a related field
- • One+ year of work experience
- • Ability to develop effective UI/UX for interactive data visualizations
- • Experience working with PowerBI and Tableau software platforms, as well as with developing visual applications using R or Python
- • Aptitude for virtual workplace setting, including ability to self-learn and problem solve, comfort with working both independently and as part of a team, and strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- • Project management experience preferred
- • Interest in transportation is desired
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary commensurate with experience. Other benefits include performance-based annual bonus, health care stipend, home office allowance or paid co-working space rent, paid time off, flexible work environment, paid parental leave, and 401k program.
About High Street
We are a growing 25-person team of creative and hardworking planning, policy, analytics, and digital application development professionals dedicated to delivering outstanding solutions for our clients. We help transportation practitioners understand and respond to emerging issues using a combination of qualitative and quantitative solutions. Consulting work always involves some travel and periods of intensity, but High Street is committed to work-life balance and respects our team members’ time and priorities outside work. High Street is an equal opportunity employer.
To Apply
Please send a resume, cover letter and work sample to careers@highstreetconsulting.com. Include a brief description of your contribution to the work sample. We will conduct initial screening interviews with promising candidates followed by a written test and a second-round interview for finalists
Web Developer (Front-end Focused)
High Street is a consulting firm that builds state-of-the-art digital applications for public agency owners of America’s transportation system. We are known nationally for creating cutting edge, data-centric solutions deployed by our clients to help overcome complex policy and planning challenges. If you are a self-driven web
developer looking for an out-of-the-ordinary job where you get to make a difference by helping to solve some of the country’s toughest public policy challenges, High Street is the place for you! Members of our team can live/work where they choose, and we never churn out ‘cookie cutter’ work. Above all, we prize multi-disciplinary
collaboration on every project across our diverse group of developers, data scientists, policy experts and planners to craft creative and effective solutions that delight our clients.
Examples of how High Street’s team is making a difference with our work include the online searchable inventory we’re building to help Texans knit together the contents of local bike and pedestrian plans across the state and catalyze investment in bike-friendly infrastructure or the machine learning work we are doing to help a DOT catalogue the locations of important safety features like guardrails using 2.5 million images. We want to hear from you if you think you’d be a good fit for these kinds of projects and more.
Work Responsibilities
Each project we do is unique; adaptability to changing work responsibilities on every assignment is a must for this job. You will typically juggle several projects concurrently with varied deadlines and priority levels. This position is front-end focused but requires full stack familiarity. On any given project, your responsibilities might include:
- • Building a web application on one of a variety of platforms, or creating a custom GIS tool to automate a client’s processes,
- • Assisting the project team with data tasks,
- • Engaging with the client,
- • Conducting quality assurance, testing, and writing documentation,
- • Performing complex data analysis in client databases, and
- • Supporting or leading project teams.
High Street’s team and clients are located throughout the United States and this
position may require occasional travel, but it will primarily be work from home.
Qualifications
- • Computer Science or Mathematics BS or equivalent work experience
- • Proficiency writing responsive CSS and familiarity with one or more CSS preprocessors (e.g. LESS, SASS)
- • Experience working as part of a web development team and using source version control tools (e.g. git)
- • Front-end focused but with ability to work across all layers of modern web development stacks
- • Proficiency writing JavaScript including at least one modern front-end JS library or framework (e.g. Vue.js, React)
- • Experience with ESRI’s JavaScript API and/or building apps using ArcGIS Web App Builder or Experience Builder
- • Familiarity with basic GIS programming concepts and spatial datasets
- • Familiarity with both functional and object-oriented programming practices
- • Aptitude for working in a virtual workplace setting, including ability to self-learn and problem solve, comfort with working both independently and as part of a team, and strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary commensurate with experience. Other benefits include performance-based annual bonus, health care stipend, home office allowance or paid co-working space rent, paid time off, flexible work environment, paid parental leave, and 401k program.
About High Street
We are a growing 25-person team of creative and hardworking planning, policy, analytics, and digital application development professionals dedicated to delivering outstanding solutions for our clients. We help transportation practitioners understand and respond to emerging issues using a combination of qualitative and quantitative solutions. Consulting work always involves some travel and periods of intensity, but High Street is committed to work-life balance and respects our team members’ time and priorities outside work. High Street is an equal opportunity employer.
To Apply
Please send a resume, cover letter and work sample to careers@highstreetconsulting.com. Include a brief description of your contribution to the work sample. We will conduct initial screening interviews with promising candidates followed by a written test and a second-round interview for finalists
Transportation Analyst – Data-Centric Planning
High Street is a consulting firm that provides data-centric strategic decision-making support to public agency owners of America’s transportation system. We are known nationally for cutting edge solutions that help our clients overcome complex policy and planning challenges. If you have a background that blends transportation data analytics with transportation planning and decision-making and you are looking to
make a difference by helping to solve some of the country’s toughest transportation challenges, High Street is the place for you! Members of our team can live/work where they choose, and we never churn out ‘cookie cutter’ work. Above all, we prize multidisciplinary collaboration on every project across our diverse group of data analysts, policy experts, planners, web developers, and data scientists to craft creative and effective solutions that delight our clients.
A few examples of data–centric planning work produced recently by our team include: helping Texas DOT prioritize $35B in investment by transforming data from separate databases into cohesive predictions of project performance; helping Oklahoma DOT find over $50M in savings by identifying projects with low performance impacts due to over-scoping; and helping the Phoenix, AZ region’s MPO build a geospatial platform that prioritizes site location needs and scores projects based on bridge, pavement, crash, travel time reliability, travel demand, transit, land use and socio-economic data. We want to hear from you if you think you’d be a good fit for supporting these kinds of projects.
Work Responsibilities
Each assignment we complete is unique; adaptability to changing work responsibilities on every task is a must for this job. You will typically juggle several projects concurrently with varied deadlines and priority levels. Work assignments will include:
- • Spatially joining and processing a wide variety of transportation data;
- • Developing and documenting technical methodologies/assumptions;
- • Forecasting long-range transportation investment needs;
- • Evaluating performance impacts of transportation investments in terms of safety, mobility, preservation and other factors;
- • Conducting multiple objective decision analysis;
- • Communicating with technical client staff; and
- • Creating automated tools.
- • Supporting or leading project teams
- • Business development support
- • Preparing and making presentations
High Street’s team and clients are located throughout the United States and this position may require occasional travel, but it is a ‘work from home’ role.
Qualifications
- • 2 to 5 years of work experience in areas of transportation asset management or long-range transportation planning, and Master’s in transportation planning, public policy, civil engineering, or similar discipline.
- • Experience in use of statistical analysis packages, programming languages and software including GIS, R, Python and SQL.
- • Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software.
- • Creative problem solving, critical thinking, and troubleshooting skills and a demonstrated ability to write clearly in a manner that appeals to a wide audience.
- • Aptitude for work in a virtual setting including strong interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to self-learn and problem solve, prioritize workload, meet deadlines, and work both independently and as part of a team.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary commensurate with experience. Other benefits include performance-based annual bonus, health care stipend, home office allowance or paid co-working space rent, paid time off, flexible work environment, paid parental leave, and 401k program.
About High Street
We are a growing 25-person team of creative and hardworking planning, policy, analytics, and digital application development professionals dedicated to delivering outstanding solutions for our clients. We help transportation practitioners understand and respond to emerging issues using a combination of qualitative and quantitative solutions. Consulting work always involves some travel and periods of intensity, but High Street is committed to work-life balance and respects our team members’ time and priorities outside work. High Street is an equal opportunity employer.
To Apply
Please send a resume, cover letter and work sample to careers@highstreetconsulting.com. Include a brief description of your contribution to the work sample. We will conduct initial screening interviews with promising candidates followed by a written test and a second-round interview for finalists