About This Role
Maintaining project and financial records is the core of this Project Analyst role, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and company policy. The role suits a candidate with strong accounting skills, capable of ensuring accurate project setup, on-time billing, and timely payments, while also analyzing and reporting project profitability and costs.
Responsibilities
- Maintain project data by adding/inactivating projects and ensuring accurate project records, adding/maintaining project detail data, and updating relevant information
- Support cash operations by preparing and posting cash receipts in a timely manner
- Maintain, review, and post/update weekly and/or monthly items such as journal entries, job cost changes, direct checks, intercompany billings, overhead tracking jobs, facilities, and G&A pools
- Authorize the transfer of expenses into and out of project-related accounts
- Review time sheets for work related to a project
- Review and approve overhead charges to be applied to a project
- Review various account balances and totals related to projects
- Investigate and resolve project expenses not billed to customers
- Calculate and post revenue in accordance with GAAP
- Create and/or approve all project-related billings to customers
- Respond to requests from customers
- Review and approve supplier invoices related to projects
- Produce reports: create monthly reports for management and operations, and generate ad hoc reports as requested by different stakeholders
- Provide backup to Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll by reviewing posted data for accuracy and completeness, and assisting with data-entry and processing tasks during peak periods or staff shortages
- Investigate project variances, report on variances, and investigate and report on unbilled balances
- Provide exceptional support to internal stakeholders, such as management and operations teams
- Assist with and support the annual audit and budget cycles as necessary
- Complete other duties as assigned to support the job cost and accounting team and ensure smooth operations
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a closely related field (experience may be substituted for education on a two-for-one yearly basis)
- At least 5 years of corporate project accounting experience
- Working knowledge of GAAP Accounting Principles
- Ability to work accurately and independently
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office 365, and Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to pass a background and drug screening
