The Project Accountant role directly assists in multiple enterprise activities. You will be responsible for setting up projects in our accounting system, certify for employee charging, revenue recognition and billing requirements. Additional responsibilities include maintaining project budgets and ensuring all job cost transactions are properly recorded and reconciling job cost to the general ledger.
Responsibilities
- Setup projects in accounting system, Deltek Costpoint, certify for employee charging, revenue recognition and billing requirements; maintain project budgets
- Ensure all job cost transactions are properly recorded; reconcile job cost to general ledger
- Validate and direct job cost allocations
- Responsible for all A / R activities on assigned projects
- Review and approve accounts payable on assigned projects
- Inventory adjustments, manufacturing sales orders entry and maintenance
- Accounting for warranty and non-warranty repairs
- Liaison with sales, engineering, manufacturing, project management and lead project reviews
- Journal entries and Intercompany accounting and reconciliation
- Assist in project budget development and forecasting activities
- Maintain subcontractor compliance components for assigned projects
- Maintain compliance details for subcontractor paid-when-paid activities
- Review and approve employee expense transactions
- Review and process project related contracts and change orders
- Ensure timely reconciliation of project costs to ensure smooth month-end close
Required Skills
Bachelor's degree in accounting, CPA or MBA a plus, but not requiredGMP contract experience and the accounting for substantial projects requiredAt least 3-5 years of project accounting experience, construction experience a plusRelevant certifications and professional associations : CMA (Certified Management Accountant), CGMA (Chartered Global Management Accountant), APICS a plusKnowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)Knowledge of FASB ASC 606 ("Contracts with Customers") revenue recognition and deferred revenueGeneral familiarity of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) helpfulIdeal candidate should be detailed oriented and well organizedAbility to communicate and work with project managers to establish budgetsExperience with Discrete Manufacturing (project-based), also referred to as Job ShopManufacturing, or Engineer to Order (ETO) ManufacturingDeltek Costpoint experience preferred. Similar ERP / MRP would be SAP, Oracle / JD Edwards, Infor, Syteline, Syspro, MS Dynamics oDeltek Costpoint Materials modules (Procurement, Manufacturing) experience a major plusCognos business intelligence experience a plusInternational and multicurrency experience a plus, but not requiredStrong Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and OutlookAdvanced Excel skills, pivot tables, lookups, etc.This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
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