Senior Project Accountant

At SSR, we're more than a leading engineering design, consulting, and planning firm-we're a team of owners committed to solving complex projects and delivering innovative solutions for facility and infrastructure challenges. With locations across the U.S. and expertise spanning diverse markets and services, our collaborative approach empowers us to build lasting partnerships with each other, our clients, and our communities.

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As a Senior Project Accountant, you'll lead complex project accounting and billing-training and advising Operations Accountants, preparing complex invoices, and partnering with Project Managers to optimize billing, collections, and project financial performance. You'll champion process improvements and automation while providing clear reports that help leaders make timely decisions.

• Develops approach for complicated areas of project accounting such as:
  • Reviews and analyzes new client contracts to determine appropriate billing treatment
  • Enter budgets for projects with complex fee structures
  • Enter client- and project-specific billing and collections protocols and procedures
  • Develops complex billing rate schedules and partners with Project Managers to evaluate the reasonableness of employee billing rates
  • Reviews and approves new projects, complex invoices, and billing voids in BST for Project Accountants
  • Closes projects, including reviewing and resolving project work in process and labor backlog
  • Reviews month-end expense effort against revenue, investigates discrepancies, and corrects budgets when appropriate
• Advises and trains Project Accountants in the complex project accounting and billing matters
• Trains and partners with new Project Managers on project setup, billing, and the project management and cash management portal
• Partners with other Project Accounting team members to optimize processes and supports the development, testing, and execution of improvement plans through automation, enhanced workflows, and increased efficiency
• Supports Operations Accounting Analysts in identifying and investigating projects at risk of exceeding budget

• Ensures complete and accurate project setup, including the following:
  • Reviews project setup documentation submitted by Project Managers for accuracy and completeness
  • Reviews contracts and proposals for billing terms and rate schedules
  • Enters project budgets and billing information into the accounting system
  • Updates project records to reflect changes in fees, multipliers, annual statutory overhead rates, and other relevant terms
• Ensures the timely preparation and delivery of accurate, complete client invoices in accordance with contract terms for each project
• Maintains accurate job-cost accounting information for each project, including time and material charges, in accordance with labor-hour and project expense budgets
• Supports and advises Operations on accounts receivable collection efforts in coordination with Project Managers and documents activity in the accounts receivable collection tool, works directly with client as required.
• Reviews items in the over payment account spreadsheet following updates by the Operations Accounting Analyst
• Partners with Project Accounting team members to monitor subconsultant contracts, invoices, and budgets and works closely with Project Managers to support timely billing and payment
• Maintains electronic project files, including contract agreements and invoices
• Reviews project files and coordinates with Project Managers to obtain fully executed contract agreements
• Reviews posted project expenses to ensure appropriate reimbursable or non-reimbursable treatment
• Partners with Project Managers to address overall project needs and perform related analysis
• Provides accurate project documentation for financial and project audits
• Completes client vendor information requests
• Coordinates the distribution of Certificates of Insurance for projects
• Prepares lien releases for…