# Experienced Professional, Project Accounting

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Morristown, NJ
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $77,100 - $151,700
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced project accountant to provide accounting and financial specialist support to one or more Project Managers and/or project teams.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in project accounting, with experience in managing and analyzing project costs and revenue, and ensuring accurate project profit and loss calculations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing and analyzing project costs and revenue

- Ensuring accurate project profit and loss calculations

- Communicating project financial performance and profitability to project/program management

- Lifecycle project accounting, including creating project accounts, tracking projects and project budgets, validating invoicing, and project close-out

- Performing detailed accounting tasks related to managing project contracts, billing events, and billing transaction exceptions

- Partnering with Project Managers and project teams to establish project budgets, update budgets, and make project accounting recommendations

- Generating project financial reports and evaluating reports for any items that need to be escalated for review

- Authorizing access to project accounts and transferring expenses into and out of project-related accounts

- Maintaining quality control standards and procedures for generating accurate and precise project-related financial records

- Applying learned accounting expertise to investigate project variances and submitting variance reports to management

- Verifying contract and change order characteristics for projects

- Monitoring key indicators for managing and analyzing problem projects

- Ensuring draft invoices from billing are accurate and obtaining Project Manager documentation and signature

- Subcontract management and coordination with Contract Administrators

- Identifying and recording unpaid contract billings and following up on delinquent accounts receivable and/or unbilled costs

- Responding to requests for more detail from clients and investigating all project expenses not billed to clients

- Attending project-related meetings to inform the team regarding the current status of project financials

- Creating and submitting government reports related to projects

- Compiling information for review by a more Senior Consultant prior to submitting for internal and external auditors

- Interacting with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner

- Remaining current in the latest project accounting principles and subject matter

- Exercising responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, or a closely-related discipline

- 3-5 years of relevant post-education experience in accounting, project contracts, and change management documents

- Working knowledge of project accounting principles, practices, and methods

- Analytical mindset with the ability to exercise sound independent judgment

- Effective interpersonal and communication skills

- Ability to initiate and coordinate efforts with various stakeholders

- Proficiency with technical writing, office automation, and accounting software

- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

Preferred qualifications:

- Familiarity with Oracle

We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, retirement savings, paid sick leave, paid vacation, and paid parental leave.

## Skills

### Required
- project accounting
- financial analysis
- accounting software
- communication
- analytical skills

### Nice to have
- Oracle

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