2027 Associate Accountant - Hunt Valley, MD

About the Entry Level Role 

As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business. This entry-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities. 

Who We Are 

Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support. 

All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today. 

Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.  

About This Role 

We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for: 

• Associate Accountants may be assigned to a role in the following areas: cost accounting, including revenues/billings, project costing/inventory and intercompany accounting, accounts payable, government reporting, timekeeping/payroll, fix assets, or tax accounting 

• The Associate Accountants will perform assigned accounting functions by utilizing technical accounting theory and practices in order to accurately record company financial transactions. 

• Ensure compliance with company policies and all regulatory requirements. 

• Associate Accountants will be assigned to one of the following areas in the accounting organization. 

• Ensure financial records are in compliance with internal process documentation, generally accepted accounting principles, corporate accounting policies/control standards and applicable federal contracting regulations. 

• Prepare and record company financial transactions, preparing supplemental schedules as required. 

• Prepare assigned balance sheet account reconciliations applying appropriate analytical techniques 

• Support financial, tax, internal and government reporting audits 

• Interface with management and company personnel, as required, regarding the status of accounting transactions and corrective actions required 

• Engage in professional development activities.