What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Accountant position at Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC?
Responsibilities
The Project Accountant supports construction project teams with the accounting and billing process.
- Review owner contracts and identify contractual terms for accounting purposes with the project team
- Work with Operations to enhance the flow of information to the Project Accounting team
- Prepare and process customer Time and Materials, Cost-plus Fixed fee, and Firm Fixed Price billings on a schedule of values in accordance with contract requirements
- Provide billing backup detail and balance billings against job cost when applicable
- Analyze purchase orders and purchase order change orders on-line for correct calculations, including sales tax
- Review subcontractor pay application information, including percent of completion, retainage percent or amount and verify that it contains a related waiver and release document
- Analyze tax amounts charged on expense reports, miscellaneous invoices and purchase orders received nationwide to ensure the correct rate will be paid and/or accrued
- Process high volumes of virtual miscellaneous invoices, purchase orders and subcontractor pay applications
- Request and obtain valid W-9s for new vendors and vendor remits
- Virtually review and process employee expense reimbursement requests
- Track and process owner direct purchases
- Maintain accurate cloud-based accounting file system
- Additional miscellaneous duties to support project accounting needs
Education - Skills - Knowledge - Qualifications & Experience
- 3-5 years of strong accounting experience
- Accounting degree preferred
- Construction accounting experience strongly preferred
- Comfortable working in a paperless environment
- Experience with sales and use tax calculations and accruals for multiple states
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications, especially Excel
- Experience working in multiple accounting systems (i.e. Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Textura, Concur, Construction Imaging, Prolog)
- Strong research and problem-solving skills
- Excellent customer service skills – both internal and external
- Strong communication skills – both oral and written
- Actively and effectively work in a team environment
- Detail oriented, organized, and comfortable managing multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment