Senior Project Accounting & Budgeting Specialist

WSP in the U.S.; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off and leave benefits

Job summary

WSP is seeking an Experienced Professional, Project Accounting in the United States. The role supports project managers by developing budgets, margin analysis, and funding in Oracle for larger projects, while maintaining high standards of financial stewardship.

You will collaborate with Billing and Project Managers on pre-billing reviews, cost estimates, and invoicing. US Citizenship and security clearance may be required for the position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, or closely-related discipline (or demonstrated proven equivalent experience).
• 3 to 5 years of relevant post-education experience in accounting, project contracts and change management documents.
• Working knowledge of project accounting principles, practices, and methods and their application to project work-related issues.
• Proficiency with technical writing, office automation and accounting software, spreadsheets, MS Excel, pivot tables, formulas, data format/sort/filter, VLOOKUP, predictive models, and tools.

Responsibilities

• For assigned project(s), manage and analyze the collection, recording, and allocating of project costs and revenue, ensuring accurate project profit and loss calculations, and communicating project financial performance and profitability to project/program management.
• Responsible for lifecycle project accounting from creating project accounts in Oracle, to tracking projects and project budget, validating invoicing, project close-out, and reconciling overall project payables and receivables to project budgets.
• Perform detailed and involved accounting tasks related to managing project contract, billing events and billing transaction exceptions revenue for medium-sized and/or moderate-level complex projects.
• Partner with the Project Manager and project team to establish the project budget, updating budgets, and making project accounting recommendations as needed when contract modifications or budget changes arise.
• Generate project financial reports, evaluating the reports for any items, including labor breakage, that need to be escalated for review by the Project Manager as necessary.
• Authorize access to project accounts, and the transfer of expenses into and out of project-related accounts in compliance with established accounting practices and guidelines.
• Maintain quality control standards and procedures for generating accurate and precise project-related financial records using Oracle, spreadsheets, and software.
• For assigned projects, apply learned accounting expertise relating to project resources, labor and expenses, investigating project variances and submitting variance reports to management.
• Verify contract and change order characteristics for projects that are medium-sized and/or of a moderate-level of complexity, including reading and interpreting contract language, method of compensation, modifications, purchase orders, and subcontract/consultant terms.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Excel skills

VLOOKUP

Pivot tables

Cost analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, or closely-related discipline

Tools

Oracle

Job description

WSP is seeking an Experienced Professional, Project Accounting in the United States. The role supports project managers by developing budgets, margin analysis, and funding in Oracle for larger projects, while maintaining high standards of financial stewardship.

You will collaborate with Billing and Project Managers on pre-billing reviews, cost estimates, and invoicing. US Citizenship and security clearance may be required for the position.