Project Accountant Contractor - USA

Overview:

This role requires advanced excel skill, formula knowledge, and an understanding of cross sheet linkage. A preferred skill is for the candidate to have an accounting degree and a CPA.

• Knowledge and full cycle experience with Accounts receivable operations and systems
• Knowledge and full cycle experience with Accounts payable operations and systems
• Knowledge and full cycle experience with General Ledger operations and systems
• Knowledge and full cycle experience with Capital Asset operations and systems
• Proficient in data analysis, well versed with SOX andGAAP.
• Experience with executing monthly reconciliations between accounts, ledgers, and other financial recording systems
• Strong excel skills including pivot tables, data connections,vlookup, complex formulas and connecting spreadsheets
• Proficient in Power BI reporting, Task planner, navigating and updating Share Point sites.
• Proficient in data analysis, investigating variances, and exception handling, well versed in capital vs expense activities
• Able to create management financial summary for communication to leadership and support regular reporting requirements
• Good organizational skills. Be able to support multiple projects and work with project managers on a regular scheduled basis
• Good planning skills and able to coordinate work efforts to meet financial deadlines
• Operational management skills to support the project PO, invoice and tracking processes
• Create and communicate historical analysis and trends of key data elements of a project
• Experience with internal and external auditors

Responsibilities

• AttendMiscProject/Financial meetings with PMs and other team meetings as needed
• Projectand Budget setup in financial templates and PMO governance tools
• Prepare financials for project stage gate governance processes (i.e. PEG,TCOsand Setup assistance)
• Assist and recommend to project managers any identified budget adjustments, recommendations, and/or realignments based on actualized historical information
• Understand project variance drivers and recognize when it is appropriate to escalate to supervisors
• Reviewing all incoming capital investment requests for completeness and inputting intoCoupato ensure set-up with proper routing for approval.
• Communicate with project managers as requests are made with target SLA
• Maintaining a detailed financial appropriation (Proliance/PIN) activity and status report, which includes:
  • Recording the daily financial activity for each project
  • Updating and publishing monthly actual FTE reports
  • Emailing PMs regardingactualsand requesting the completion ofETCs
  • Scheduling period actual reviews with each PM.
  • Identifying and communicating any major discrepancies between planned spend, approved project funding, andactuals
  • Maintaining the FTE budget and reconcile planned vs actualized labor for each project assigned
  • Inputting, maintaining, and trackingCouparequisitions, POs and invoices by vendor
  • Collaborate with project coordinators or other project team members
  • Completing any other ad hoc support as requested