Construction Project Accountant
About The Position
This position provides financial and administrative support for design, construction, renovation, and operational projects. It supplies management with information for planning and maintains reports needed to track and report project activity. Duties include project financial reporting, contract and payment analysis and processing, project documentation, and issue and meeting management. The role typically supports multiple new and renovation projects, depending on their size and complexity. The position combines financial analysis, project coordination, and cross-functional collaboration to help keep projects organized, on budget, and moving forward. It supports multiple projects and works closely with Finance, Facilities, Purchasing, IT, and leadership. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with flexible start and end times available. This is a hybrid role with on-site requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration, and one year of experience in finance, accounting, or construction management, or equivalent education and experience.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and prioritize multiple projects.
- Proven analytical skills.
- Proficiency with sophisticated software programs and office desktop applications.
- Excellent human relations, organizational, and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Additional related education and/or experience.
Responsibilities
- Prepare financial and statistical reports by identifying appropriate data sources and meaningful financial indicators, including coordinating the facility month-end close process and participating with corporate finance.
- Create and generate reports used to analyze data.
- Maintain assigned statistical, contractual, and other financial databases.
- Create and maintain electronic project files from project inception through closeout and archiving, including business plans, scope documentation, drawings, budgets, licensure applications, certifications, permits, change order requests and documents, proposals, invoices, purchase requisitions, pay applications, schedules, minutes, and closeout documents.
- Work with analysts and project teams on facility financial processes, including capital budgets, forecasts, program reporting and analysis, charge management, cost accounting, decision support, and reimbursement analysis.
- Reconcile commitments and accounts monthly and generate budget adjustments as necessary.
- Act as a technical resource and liaison to system management, administrators, department heads, and co-workers on financial and contractual issues.
- Analyze problems using data and evaluate relevant factors; select methods and techniques to find solutions within established practices and procedures.
- Collaborate with Finance, Information Technology, Technology Management, Purchasing, and Facility Leadership to support timely and accurate reporting and processes.
- Read and understand technical pronouncements, identify compliance issues, and make independent decisions.
- Review, analyze, and process architect, engineering, and contractor payments, contractual commitments, amendments, change orders, purchase requisitions, and invoices, ensuring proper authorization, timely handling, and issue resolution in accordance with applicable practices, procedures, manuals, and standards.
