Lead Project Accountant

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HDR Washington's BES group is looking for a Lead Project Accountant to lead a team of project accountants in supporting a diverse group of projects. The chosen candidate will partner closely with business leadership in maintaining program controls and financial health across the projects.

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…