Lead Project Accountant - Team Lead, Budget & EV

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR Washington's BES group is looking for a Lead Project Accountant to lead a team of project accountants in supporting a diverse group of projects. The chosen candidate will partner closely with business leadership in maintaining program controls and financial health across the projects.

In this role, you will oversee contract documents, budgeting, cost variance reports, and subconsultant management while ensuring adherence to company policies within an employee-owned culture.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in a closely related field or combination of education and relevant experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience; an advanced degree may offset years of experience
• Proficiency with MS Office including Word and Outlook
• Excellent verbal and written communication including grammar, punctuation, proofreading, spelling and telephone skills
• Flexibility and ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and collaborate with various managers in a fast-paced environment
• Self-motivated, well-organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to handle confidential information
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a Project Accountant team for a Business Group.
• QC contract documents for the business group project accounting team prior to signatures.
• Run monthly financial meetings for business group delivery projects.
• Maintain even workload distribution among project accounting team and assign project support work as needed.
• Train new PA staff and communicate new processes to the business group project accounting team.
• Serve as the centralized point of contact for accounting or contract related questions or tasks on assigned projects.
• Provide detailed analysis and reporting on project status within the established accounting system or other developed tracking tools.
• Be responsible for analyzing, preparing, validating and maintaining budget estimates, detailed baseline budgets, work package agreements, and daily/weekly/monthly cost variance reports.
• Team with technical staff, project leads and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision-makers related to project accounting.
• Utilize earned value management techniques or other financial reporting techniques to communicate to the Project Team relationships and variances between planned work, executed work, and actual costs.
• Lead on managing subconsultant agreements, subconsultant invoices and release of payments to subconsultants per their contract terms and conditions.
• Assist in AR collection for business group projects.
• Assist the Area Accounting Manager in supporting local operations Area leadership teams
• Be responsible for supporting accounting functions for an area business group
• Primary responsibilities include sharing in supervising, training & mentoring responsibilities of Area Resources business group accounting staff, for all facets of project and contract financial management, as well as, assisting Area Accounting Manager to ensure general accounting functions maintained for the Area.
• Perform specialized accounting functions and establish internal controls for procedures and practices in accordance with company policies, accounting procedures and contractual obligations within the resources business group.
• Work directly with Area Operations Manager, Business Group Managers and Assistant Regional Accounting Director (ARAD) to manage and coordinate department and project accounting systems to monitor department general ledger accounts, project budgets, invoicing, payables, receivables and other related financial information
• Audit compliance with contractual requirements, which may include invoicing and reporting format, net fee projections and financial quality control
• Review and analyze financial statements
• Assist area business group manager in coordinating and reviewing annual departmental budgets
• Advise management on financial performance of area business group and projects
• Supervise the activity of area business group accountants for the collection of employee time and expense reports and verification of project numbers, resource codes, and receipts
• Supervise the activity of area business group accountants and project controllers specific to project accounting and contractual obligations
• Make staffing recommendations to management
• Select and/or deal directly with vendors related to department operations as needed
• Perform other accounting and contracting administration support to accounting staff, Project Managers, Engineers, and Business Group Managers, as needed.

Skills

MS Office proficiency

Strong communication

Team leadership

Multitasking

Education

Associate degree in a closely related field

Tools

MS Office (Word, Outlook)

Job description

HDR Washington's BES group is looking for a Lead Project Accountant to lead a team of project accountants in supporting a diverse group of projects. The chosen candidate will partner closely with business leadership in maintaining program controls and financial health across the projects.

In this role, you will oversee contract documents, budgeting, cost variance reports, and subconsultant management while ensuring adherence to company policies within an employee-owned culture.