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Michelle Massarini is the VP of Finance for Capital Edge Consulting, Inc. Her focus is on providing full contract lifecycle professional support to government contractors and government agencies in the areas of compliance, accounting, contracts, and training. Michelle’s areas of expertise include Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), DCAA compliance and audit support, government cost accounting requirements, and Deltek Costpoint.

Since joining Capital Edge in 2010, Michelle has provided guidance to companies in a variety of areas including, but not limited to, the creation and preparation of incurred cost submissions, forward pricing models, the development and maintenance of CAS Disclosure Statements, cost impact studies as required for making changes to cost accounting practices, booked to billed reconciliations, contract closeouts, and contractor business system reviews, including but not limited to Accounting, Estimating, & Purchasing. Michelle has designed reports in Deltek Cognos and Impromptu to support booked to billed reconciliations, incurred cost submissions and related audits as required by DCAA. She has initiated and assisted in the implementation of policies and procedures, and provided recommendations that allow for efficiency and precision in day-to-day activities for various levels of accounting, purchasing, estimating, and contracting personnel. Michelle has also served as a subject matter expert in the design and implementation of Deltek Costpoint.

Additionally, Michelle speaks at training seminars on the topic of incurred cost submissions for both Federal Publication Seminars (Fed Pubs) and Public Contracting Institute (PCI). She is also a member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and Professional Services Counsel (PSC).

Prior to joining Capital Edge Consulting, Michelle spent 12 years in government contracting in both the environmental engineering and software development/IT support industries. She has experience in a wide range of roles including cost accounting manager, financial (project-level) manager, and procurement specialist. Michelle has extensive knowledge in the compilation of incurred cost submissions, analysis of various financial margins and metrics, designing indirect rate structures, and end-user functionality of Deltek Costpoint.