# Senior Accountant

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,000.00 - $150,000.00
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Accountant to join our Real Estate Development team as the accounting and financial-controls lead for WGU's large-scale construction and development program, including the new headquarters campus.

The salary range for this position is $100,000.00 - $150,000.00.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Design and operate project accounting procedures and controls, including project and cost-code setup, contract and commitment records, change-order controls, and documentation standards; lead related process, system, and reporting improvements.

- Review contractor pay applications against contracts and approved schedules of values; validate work completed, retainage, prior payments, approved changes, cost coding, calculations, and supporting documentation.

- Confirm required lien waivers or releases, certifications, and other payment conditions are complete; investigate exceptions and recommend draw or payment packages for approval under WGU's delegated-authority framework.

- Record and reconcile project costs, commitments, accruals, accounts payable, and funding activity; coordinate accurate and timely month-end and year-end close.

- Maintain construction-in-progress records and support capitalization, placed-in-service determinations, asset transfers, and related accounting in accordance with U.S. GAAP and WGU policy.

- Reconcile accounting actuals and commitments to project-controls records and finance forecasts; identify and communicate variances, emerging exposures, and data-quality issues.

- Support debt or bond draws, incentive and grant documentation, covenant reporting, audits, and other compliance requirements with complete, audit-ready records; provide functional guidance and coordinate external accounting or draw-review resources.

**Qualifications**

- CPA or MAcc, or equivalent relevant experience under WGU policy.

- Eight or more years of progressive accounting, construction accounting, or project accounting experience, including at least three years supporting construction draws, pay applications, or complex capital projects.

- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, construction-in-progress and fixed-asset accounting, month-end close, reconciliations, and internal controls.

- Working knowledge of construction contracts, schedules of values, change orders, retainage, lien waivers, and payment documentation.

- Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP, project accounting, or construction-management systems; strong judgment, attention to detail, and stakeholder communication.

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual

- 11 paid holidays

- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- CPA
- MAcc
- U.S. GAAP
- construction accounting
- project accounting
- Excel
- ERP

### Nice to have
- AIA G702/G703
- Workday
- Procore
- Kahua
- e-Builder

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