Project Accounting Analyst

About This Role

This Project Accounting Analyst position is a stable, long-term contract role, managing and tracking project budgets. The analyst will work directly with Project Managers to help them understand the financial progress and variances of each project, ensuring they stay on track.

Responsibilities

• Review and monitor project budgets, identifying areas of over and underspend
• Record daily financial activity for each project and relay accurate project financials to respective Project Managers
• Complete monthly cost analysis, including budget-vs.-actual analysis, cost-to-complete analysis, and various requirements
• Discuss with Project Managers any identified budget adjustments, recommendations, and/or realignments based on actualized historical information
• Track purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and invoices, and report to management regarding remaining funding available for projects
• Receive and process invoices against a project’s supplier purchase orders
• Review capital interest calculations based on capital expenditures and purchases
• Investigate project variances and submit variance reports to management
• Prepare financials for project stage gate governance processes
• Research, retrieve, organize data, and prepare various reports
• Process end of period reconciliations and accruals
• Identify and implement process improvements

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in project accounting or project financial/budget analyst type of role
• Experience managing and tracking the costs of projects (capital vs. operating expenses), analyzing budget vs actual, and performing forecasting and variance analysis, while working directly with Project Managers
• Past experience with general accounting processes, with strong understanding of US GAAP
• Advanced Excel skills with ability to use short cuts, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, formulas, index matching, conditional formatting, filtering, etc.
• Experience initiating and implementing process improvements
• Exceptional communication skills to be able to clearly communicate with PMs and team and handle difficult conversations with PMs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
• 5+ years of experience in project accounting or project financial/budget analyst type of role

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits