Project Finance Associate III

What We’re Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for maintaining project-related financial data in HNTB’s project management system, ensuring alignment with current client contracts, including change orders, subconsultant agreements, and approved unauthorized work. The Project Finance Associate supports the project finance team to ensure billing compliance with contractual documents.

Responsibilities include coding project costs, such as subconsultant expenses, expense report receipts, and vendor invoices, with appropriate project accounting codes in accordance with standard procedures and contractual requirements to ensure proper entry into HNTB’s project management system.

• Accurately update the project management system by translating client and project workplan data based on contract and change order review.

• Facilitate the ability to access and charge to project tasks and phases in the project management system.

• Ensure project costs are properly coded and allocated by maintaining awareness of project status, and proactively determining the financial data updates in response to project changes.

• Manage cost transfers to and from projects/tasks.

• Support the project finance team in reviewing and approving project invoices, updating invoice requirements from contractual documents, verifying billed costs, and ensuring compliance with reporting requirements, including insurance certificates and adherence to client systems and formats.

• Prepare and may provide analysis of routine internal project financial performance reports for project and office teams.

• Review and may provide financial approval of vendor/subconsultant invoices for accuracy and contractual compliance, including DBE and insurance certificate requirements.

• Obtain necessary approvals and track internal workflow status for timely outcomes.

• Partner with the project team to develop and maintain client and subconsultant relationships and act as a project liaison to field contract billing questions and/or provide receivables updates.

• Lead the subcontracting processes throughout the project lifecycle.

• Support the proposal process, including gross margin analysis, cost proposal development, alignment with the project management system, and client proposal/estimate formats.

• Mentor and may oversee the work of earlier career Project Finance Associates, offering guidance and direction.

• Perform other assigned duties.

• Associate degree and 4 years of relevant work experience, or

• In lieu of education, 6 years of relevant work experience.

• Advanced knowledge of GAAP accounting rules and uses these rules to advise project teams and project finance team.

for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Los Angeles, CA (Figueroa Street), Los Angeles, CA (LA International Airport)

The approximate pay range for Los Angeles Metro Area and Orange County, CA is $32.82 - $49.23. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Finance Group

ReqID: R-28719