Project Accountant

Golder Associates Ltd.; Colombia; On-site; COP 70,000,000 - 110,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Golder Associates Ltd. in Colombia seeks a skilled Project Accountant to provide financial support and advisory to Project Managers across multiple projects.

You will set up projects in financial systems, monitor costs, and ensure revenue and cost reporting align with contractual terms. The role requires strong English, a finance background, and extensive experience with project accounting processes, including invoicing, WIP, and month-end close.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in finance or accounting, preferably project-based.
• Excellent English skills and a finance background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set up project in financial systems, including funding, revenue recognition, bill plans, and billing controls.
• Provide project pricing support (bill rates, overhead allowances).
• Review project setup and change orders in financial systems (WBS, budgets, margins).
• Maintain certificates of insurance and subcontractor reporting; identify unallowable costs.
• Ensure accurate project financial reporting per commercial authorization.
• Monitor project costs and recognized revenue, including labour breakage and overruns.
• Support monthly financial reviews and gains/losses projections.
• Monitor DSO, unbilled costs, WIP, and AR per contract terms.
• Reconcile project financials at closeout and weekly labour transactions across BST Colombia and Horizon.

Skills

Finance & Accounting

English proficiency

Tools

Oracle

Job description

Job Description - Project Accountant (26001492)

Project Accountant - ( 26001492 )

Project Accountant

Role Summary

The Project Accountant role provides financial support and advisory to the Project Manager. This is a role that reports to a financial function, typically to a Financial Controller, and is typically budgeted in the overhead costs of a project. This role is assigned to multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Set up project in financial systems including project funding, revenue recognition, bill plans, contract overrides and billing/revenue controls.
• Provide project pricing support (bill rates, contract overhead allowance, etc.).
• Support/review project setup and change orders in financial system (WBS, budgets, margin expectations, and contingency/reserves).
• Provide contractual and client compliance support including maintaining certificates of insurance, subcontractor/DBE reporting, rate/per diem caps, and identifying unallowable costs.
• Ensure project financials are accurately reported in line with the Project's commercial authorization.
• Support financial performance of the project through monitoring project costs and recognized revenue (including calculating labour breakage/enhancements, overruns, missing bill/revenue rates, etc.).
• Support project team in monthly reviews from a financial perspective, including estimated gains/losses.
• Support DSO and collection efforts through monitoring unbilled costs, WIP, and AR in accordance to the terms and conditions of its contract, as approved by the project manager.
• Be responsible for reconciliation of project financials at closeout.
• Perform weekly reconciliation of labour hours, project charges, and financial transactions between BST (Colombia) and Horizon (Canada/US) to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timely correction of variances.
• Support and monitor BST-Horizon project integration, including project setup validation, mapping of project structures, charge codes, and ongoing data integrity between systems.
• Produce and distribute a weekly exception report identifying missed transactions, interface failures, unmatched labour postings, billing discrepancies, and other data quality issues requiring corrective action.
• Coordinate with project managers, operations teams, and finance stakeholders to resolve cross-system discrepancies and ensure project financial data is current and accurate.
• Maintain oversight of project and employee charging compliance by proactively identifying and resolving missing timesheets, incorrect project allocations, and unposted transactions.
• Support month-end close activities through verification of BST-Horizon reconciliation, resolution of outstanding exceptions, and confirmation of project financial accuracy prior to invoicing and reporting.
• Support Horizon implementation and post-go-live stabilization activities in GCC Colombia, including data migration validation, project and employee master data setup, timesheet compliance monitoring, user support, reconciliation of migrated transactions, and resolution of issues impacting project financial reporting and labour charging accuracy.

Qualifications/Skills/Competencies

• Family: Finance & Accounting.
• Oracle Persona(s): Project Accountant (including Contract Administrator) within PPM and Contract Modules.
• 5+ years of experience, with excellent English skills and preferably a financial background.