Project Accountant

Shive-Hattery; Iowa City (IA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) retirement savings

Disability protection

Wellness incentives

Flexibility

Job summary

Shive-Hattery, a full-service architecture and engineering firm, is seeking a Project Accountant with 3+ years of experience. You will partner with project managers and design professionals to bring clarity to project financials, manage contracts and billing, and help keep projects financially healthy across a portfolio.

You’ll prepare monthly invoices, resolve unbilled items, monitor receivables, and maintain project documentation while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a hybrid work

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in project accounting or related field.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with project teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a financial partner to project leaders, supporting project financials.
• Develop understanding of contracts and billing requirements across a portfolio of projects.
• Prepare accurate monthly client invoices with documentation for review.
• Identify unbilled items and support timely payments and healthy project finances.
• Maintain project financial documentation and reconcile work-in-progress at closeout.

Skills

3+ years exp

Analytical skills

Excellent communication

Accounting knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

Tools

Financial systems

Job description

Let’s Do great things- Together

At Shive-Hattery, we believe great design starts with great people. We're a full-service architecture and engineering firm with a legacy of collaboration, innovation, and putting people first, our clients and each other. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter and your growth is supported, you'll feel at home here.

Description

At Shive-Hattery, we believe great design starts with great people. We're a full-service architecture and engineering firm with a legacy of collaboration, innovation, and putting people first, our clients and each other. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter and your growth is supported, you'll feel at home here.

Why This Role Matters

As a Project Accountant with 3+ years of experience you'll play a key role in supporting the firm and shaping projects that make a difference—from concept through completion. You'll collaborate with talented teammates, contribute your expertise, and help us deliver thoughtful, high-quality solutions for those we serve.

"People trust us, ask for our perspective and value the expertise we bring to the table. I've had so many opportunities to learn, take on new challenges and then turn around and help someone else grow. That's probably the most rewarding part for me: seeing our Project Accountants become confident partners to their teams and knowing we're building something together."

• Lindsey Mathews, Senior Project Accountant

What You’ll Do

• You'll be a financial partner to the people leading our projects
• Working alongside project managers, architects, engineers, and other professionals, you'll bring clarity to project financials, uncover issues and opportunities, and help teams make decisions that lead to stronger outcomes
• Develop a strong understanding of client contracts, master service agreements, and project-specific billing requirements and put that knowledge to work across a portfolio of projects
• Prepare accurate, timely monthly client invoices that align with contract requirements, including supporting documentation for project manager review and approval
• Identify and resolve unbilled items, helping teams capture billing opportunities and keep projects financially healthy
• Monitor accounts receivable and partner with project managers to support timely client payments
• Maintain client and project financial documentation, including contracts, MSAs, invoices, and related records
• Make necessary adjustments to billable hours and expenses and open or close project phases as work evolves
• Help project teams navigate client agreements, billing requirements, and internal financial policies, identifying and addressing issues before they become larger problems
• Support project closeout by reviewing financials, reconciling work-in-progress (WIP), and closing project phases and accounting periods

Requirements

You don't need to check every box to succeed here. If your experience aligns with many of the items below and you're excited about the work we do, we encourage you to apply.

• 3+ years of experience
• Bachelors degree in accounting or related field
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication skills
• Familiar with accounting principles and practices and have experience working with financial systems and tools
• Comfortable working in a team environment, collaborating with project managers, engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to achieve project goals

What Will Make You Stand Out

• AEC industry experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• If you enjoy digging into the details, solving problems, building relationships, and seeing the impact of your expertise on meaningful work

Our Commitment to You

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• paid time off and holidays
• 401(k) retirement savings
• disability protection
• wellness incentives
• flexibility

Who We Are

Shive-Hattery is a privately held architecture and engineering consulting firm with design offices across the United States. Here, you'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams delivering integrated design solutions for clients across industries. You'll contribute to meaningful projects guided by our principle to design what matters and make our world a better place. You're looking to build something great. So are we.

Shive-Hattery is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

This position is primarily performed in an office or hybrid environment and may require travel to project sites, other Shive-Hattery office locations or to meet with clients. A full clean driver's license is required. The role involves sitting, standing, and working at a computer for extended periods. May also require lifting light to medium weight objects of up to 50 lbs., the wearing of PPE and navigating active construction sites. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, Or Immigration Status Requirements

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future. Candidates must have current and ongoing authorization to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Notice To Recruiters And Staffing Agencies

To protect the interests of all parties, Shive-Hattery and its partners will not accept unsolicited candidate submissions from a recruiter or staffing agency who is not operating under an executed recruiting or staffing services contract with Shive-Hattery. Please do not contact our employees directly in that regard or otherwise submit unsolicited candidate information in any form.