Project Accountant - REMOTE

• Generate and manage detailed unit-based invoices in QuickBooks.
• Track and maintain invoice records in multiple software applications, ensuring accurate linkage to relevant project software application(s), QuickBooks, and Excel workbook analysis tools.
• Manage operations team and customer approvals both the initial job and ongoing change order billing, ensuring alignment with client contract terms.

• Transfer coded credit card transactions from software applications to QuickBooks, ensuring completeness and accuracy recognizing correctness of GL account accuracy.
• Maintain accurate and organized financial documentation related to billing and collections.

• Perform a back-up roll to the A/R Accountant by overseeing collections, ensuring timely payments and escalating issues as necessary.
• Monitor outstanding balances and follow up with customers to resolve disputes or payment delays.

• Manage the month-end close process for a designated area, ensuring financial accuracy and delivering on-time.
• Perform assigned reconciliations of specific asset and liability general ledger account reconciliations within assigned timeline for month-end close; prepare the corresponding journal entries with appropriate supporting documentation.
• Ability to understand cost of goods sold and operating expense cost allocations and book monthly journal entries following annual budget standards versus monthly actual costs.

• Experience understanding project/job costing and analysis, especially as it relates to jobs running across multiple months requiring WIP billing and production costing with outsourced vendors.
• Experience booking appropriate accrual journal entries for both revenue and subcontractor cost of goods sold.

• Backup role recording complex weekly payroll journal entries for wages, payroll taxes, and benefits across operating projects by regions and corporate administration costs including accruals as necessary

• Ensure financial activities comply with company policies and industry regulations.
• Identify opportunities for improving efficiency in invoicing, financial tracking, reconciliations, journal entry and close process, and reporting.

• Support leadership with ad hoc financial projects and research to drive business improvements.Work Schedule:

• Bachelor's in Accounting
• 3-5 years of accounting experience, preferably in construction and/or telecommunications, but a minimum in firms with extensive WIP and project job billing and costing accounting
• Strong background in unit-based billing, financial tracking, and job cost analysis.
• Core understanding of basic GAAP principles and solid understanding of debits, credits, and journal entries across balance sheet and profit and loss accounts

• Advanced proficiency in QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, formulas, VLOOKUP).
• Solid understanding of basic project & WIP cost accounting, specifically, subcontractor invoicing as it relates to billing of customers.
• Basic understanding of payroll, including payroll taxes

• Ability to prioritize
• Time Management
• Attention to Detail
• Communication Skills
• Reliable
• Critical Thinker
• Responsible
• Organization

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