Rachelle Jackson

Rachelle Jackson has more than 10 years of experience working in government contract compliance, strategy and advisory.     

Rachelle undertakes assessments of client accounting and finance practices, performs mock audits of business systems, implements remedial action plans and internal controls critical to managing compliance and financial risks. She also specializes in assisting contractors in responding to audit requests. 

Rachelle’s career has focused on Federal labor compliance including the Service Contract Act (SCA), Davis Bacon Act (DBA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) prevailing wage and apprenticeship programs. She conducts detailed back pay calculations and implements best-practice controls within business processes.  

Rachelle has in-depth knowledge of the regulations contained within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circulars, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 200, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFARS), and the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS). She supports federal government contractors in preparing strategic and compliant proposal price estimates when responding to Federal Requests for Proposals (RFP), reviewing forward pricing rate proposals (FPRP), incurred cost proposals (ICP), and negotiating indirect cost rate agreements (NICRA). She has also assisted with strategic cost accounting restructures, cost accounting non-compliances and changes which includes preparing general dollar magnitude (GDM) or detailed cost impacts (DCI).  

Rachelle has a bachelor’s of business administration in finance and is a member of the Young Professionals Committee for the Colorado’s Judicial Institute.