Lead Project Accountant

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We believe electricity powers modern life. As part of our Power sector, you’ll help shape how electricity is generated, transmitted and delivered as global energy demands grow. From massive data centers to modernizing transmission systems, our industry-recognized engineers and scientists have been at the forefront of grid transformation for more than a century. You’ll work side-by-side with these experts and contribute to reliable, resilient and sustainable power systems, helping communities thrive and industries expand.

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In the role of Lead Project Accountant, we'll count on you to:

• Lead and supervise a Project Accountant (PA) team for a Business Group.
• QC contract documents for the business group project accounting team prior to signatures.
• Run monthly financial meetings for business group delivery projects.
• Maintain even workload distribution among project accounting team and assign project support work as needed.
• Train new PA staff and communicate new processes to the business group project accounting team.
• Serve as the centralized point of contact for accounting or contract related questions or tasks on assigned projects.
• Provide detailed analysis and reporting on project status within the established accounting system or other developed tracking tools.
• Be responsible for analyzing, preparing, validating and maintaining budget estimates, detailed baseline budgets, work package agreements, and daily/weekly/monthly cost variance reports.
• Team with technical staff, project leads and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision-makers related to project accounting.
• Utilize earned value management techniques or other financial reporting techniques to communicate to the Project Team relationships and variances between planned work, executed work, and actual costs.
• Lead on managing subconsultant agreements, subconsultant invoices and release of payments to subconsultants per their contract terms and conditions.
• Assist in AR collection for business group projects.
• Assist the Area Accounting Manager in supporting local operations Area leadership teams.
• Be responsible for supporting accounting functions for an area business group.
• Primary responsibilities include sharing in supervising, training & mentoring responsibilities of Area Resources business group accounting staff, for all facets of project and contract financial management, as well as, assisting Area Accounting Manager to ensure general accounting functions maintained for the Area.
• Perform specialized accounting functions and establish internal controls for procedures and practices in accordance with company policies, accounting procedures and contractual obligations within the resources business group.
• Work directly with Area Operations Manager, Business Group Managers and Assistant Regional Accounting Director (ARAD) to manage and coordinate department and project accounting systems to monitor department general ledger accounts, project budgets, invoicing, payables, receivables and other related financial information.
• Audit compliance with contractual requirements, which may include invoicing and reporting format, net fee projections and financial quality control.
• Review and analyze financial statements.
• Assist area business group manager in coordinating and reviewing annual departmental budgets.
• Advise management on financial performance of area business group and projects.
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