Senior Project Controller (Hybrid)

Thales USA, Inc. (AMS); Overland Park (KS); Híbrido; USD 83.000 - 147.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Elective Health, Dental, Vision, FSA/H

Voluntary Life and AD&D

Whole Group Life w/LTC

Critical Illness

Hospital Indemnity

Accident Insurance

Legal Plan

Identity Theft

Pet Insurance

Descripción de la vacante

Thales USA, Inc. (AMS) seeks a Project Controller to manage day-to-day project accounting for a portfolio exceeding $20 million in value with annual revenues around $35–40 million.

You will partner with Project Managers and Business Controllers to ensure accurate financial records, forecasting, and timely billings in a hybrid work environment. Responsibilities include budgeting, cost tracking, revenue recognition, and close activities.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of project accounting principles, including project costing, revenue recognition, reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, and financial controls.
• Experience independently managing assigned accounting activities, investigating discrepancies, resolving nonroutine issues within established policies, and using an ERP system to review transactions, maintain financial records, and analyze project or business performance.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including PivotTables, lookup functions, and analysis of large financial datasets.
• Ability to evaluate financial results, identify risks and trends, translate findings into clear recommendations, and communicate financial information effectively to both financial and nonfinancial stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities, meet reporting deadlines, work independently, and collaborate effectively with Project Managers, Business Controllers, and other stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Independently manage project accounting activities for assigned projects, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely financial information throughout the project lifecycle; review contracts, change orders, and other modifications to identify accounting, billing, cost, and cash flow implications.
• Establish and maintain project budgets, cost structures, and expenditure authorizations in the ERP system, consistent with approved bids, contracts, and changes; analyze project costs, commitments, work in progress, revenues, margins, and cash performance.
• Partner with Project Managers to review estimates to complete and estimates at completion, challenge underlying assumptions, incorporate foreseeable changes into financial forecasts, and assess project contingencies, provisions, and contractual or financial exposures.
• Prepare project financial reporting and dashboards, reconcile project accounting entries and balances, support accurate revenue recognition and period-end close, and prepare accurate and timely Time and Material and Cost Plus billings in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Monitor billing status, unbilled balances, and receivables; coordinate with relevant stakeholders to resolve discrepancies, support timely cash collection, and provide financial analysis and project assumptions for annual budgets, multi-year plans, and periodic forecasts.
• Resolve nonroutine project accounting discrepancies, apply and monitor project financial controls, identify control gaps, recommend process and data-quality improvements, prepare audit support documentation, provide guidance to project stakeholders, and perform other related duties as assigned.

Conocimientos

ERP systems

Excel

financial analysis

project accounting

cost control

revenue recognition

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

Herramientas

SAP

Descripción del empleo

Thales USA, Inc. (AMS) seeks a Project Controller to manage day-to-day project accounting for a portfolio exceeding $20 million in value with annual revenues around $35–40 million.

You will partner with Project Managers and Business Controllers to ensure accurate financial records, forecasting, and timely billings in a hybrid work environment. Responsibilities include budgeting, cost tracking, revenue recognition, and close activities.