Assistant Area Accounting Lead

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At HDR, our employee‑ownership model shapes everything we do, including how we support and care for our people. Our diverse service lines, including Water, Architecture, Building Engineering Services, Field Services, Power, Waste, Industrial, and Transportation reflect our commitment to shaping resilient, sustainable, and forward‑thinking communities around the world. Across these disciplines, our teams design and deliver solutions that safeguard public health, enhance quality of life, power innovation, and drive responsible growth.

Whether advancing clean water, creating healing and learning environments, engineering next‑generation facilities, or building the infrastructure that moves people and energy, our work is rooted in technical excellence and a shared sense of purpose. Our employee‑owners collaborate across specialties, combining creativity, precision, and deep expertise to solve the most complex challenges facing our clients and communities.

The Assistant Area Accounting Lead position reports to the local Area Accounting Lead and helps support operations Area Management. This position assists in providing assurance to the Area Manager/Managing Principal/Regional Operations Director and Regional/Assistant Regional Accounting Directors (RAD/ARADs) that practices and procedures are being followed in accordance with HDR policies, HDR accounting principles, and federal government compliance standards. In addition to an individual that possesses analytical skills, this individual must also possess leadership and management skills necessary to effectively orchestrate accounting staff in the performance of various project‑financial functions.

The primary responsibilities of this position will be performing leadership support, including supervising, training & mentoring of accounting staff, for all facets of project and contract financial management, as well as, ensuring general accounting functions maintained for the Area.

• Invoicing
• Ensure PAs meet invoice deadlines, and balancing their workload as needed
• Understand monthly invoice cycle and look for process improvements to increase efficiencies
• Revenue Review
• Facilitate Business Group/PA/Project Coordinator preparation for monthly watchlist meetings
• Ensure meaningful notes maintained
• Follow-up and track action items set during watchlist review
• Rolling 12/Forecast
• Build file or drive process to build file, review with AM/MP/BG Managers, coordinate with Marketing to clean up opportunity data
• Assist in reviewing Area NFE Forecasts monthly, and for support of Midyear and Year-end budgeting forecasts
• Review and coordinate AR tracking and ensure updated and meaningful notes are in the system
• Monthly OH/GL Analysis
• Review OHs for accuracy and correct coding
• Research, monitor, & escalating potential issues & explanations for variances to AM/RAD/ARAD
• Review & Track Seminars, Training, and Conference Costs
• Review & Track Indirect Labor costs
• Review Cost Recovery
• Identify and understand Area Management financial & other reporting needs and take initiative to provide solutions:
• Area Management Reporting Needs, which may include, but not limited to:
• Loaned and Borrowed - BI reports
• Utilization reports
• Area marketing reporting needs
• AR reports
• MSPL
• Marketing/proposal requests for data
• Build/maintain rate sheets for clients
• Ensure best practices & guidelines in accordance with project accounting Share