Lead Project Accountant - Team Lead, Project Controls

HDR; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Comprehensive benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

HDR Washington's BES group is seeking a Lead Project Accountant to guide a team of project accountants across a diverse portfolio of projects in the Bellevue area. You will partner with business leadership to maintain program controls and financial health throughout the projects.

The role emphasizes strong supervision, training, and process improvement, with responsibility for budgets, cost variance reporting, subcontract management, and financial analyses to inform decision-makers.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or combination of education and relevant experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience; 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
• Self-motivated, well-organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to handle confidential information
• Commitment to excellence and active participation in employee-owned culture

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a Project Accountant (PA) 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 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
• Supervise and mentor accounting staff for project and contract financial management and internal controls
• Coordinate with ARAD to monitor GL accounts, budgets, invoicing, payables and receivables
• Audit compliance with contractual requirements and review financial statements
• Coordinate annual departmental budgets and advise management on financial performance
• Supervise the collection of time and expense reports and validation of project numbers and receipts

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Organization

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Associate degree in related field

Tools

MS Office

Bentley ProjectWise

E-builder

Document Express

Job description

HDR Washington's BES group is seeking a Lead Project Accountant to guide a team of project accountants across a diverse portfolio of projects in the Bellevue area. You will partner with business leadership to maintain program controls and financial health throughout the projects.

The role emphasizes strong supervision, training, and process improvement, with responsibility for budgets, cost variance reporting, subcontract management, and financial analyses to inform decision-makers.