Project Accountant

Job Title: Project Accountant Job Summary: The Project Accountant will support Gregg Drilling’s geotechnical and environmental remediation projects.
The Project Accountant plays a critical role as a strong financial partner to our operations team, helping them understand and use financial information to make informed business decisions.
The Project Accountant must be collaborative, value integrity, a self-starter who can set goals and objectives with little direction in a fast-paced and changing environment.
The person in this role communicates clearly and concisely to financial and non-financial colleagues, both orally and in writing.
Questioning the status quo by offering thought-provoking and creative solutions to improve accuracy and increase efficiency is key to success in this role.
This role is accepting applicants from the Signal Hill, CA area and the Seattle, WA region only.
Duties/Responsibilities: • Ensures that timesheets are submitted and approved by established deadlines.
• Reviews project subcontractor, supplier and consultant payables and ensures they are consistent with the vendor contract and appropriately approved before payment.
• Ensures that expenditures are properly coded by job, equipment, or G&A.
Strives to record as capital, direct cost, or indirect expense in service period.
Approves transaction batches.
• Prepares billing reports for project manager review before preparing client invoices.
• Ensures that clients are billed regularly, accurately and on time.
• Supports project managers in collection efforts as needed.
• Monitors project budgets, staffing, work plans and billing/fee structures.
• Provides project managers with timely and accurate financial reports, budget status, and forecasts.
• Supports the proposal process by providing financial analysis and required financial information as requested.
• Ensures that project financials are up-to-date and reported weekly.
• Participates in month- and year-end closing schedule management, ensuring team provides documentation requested by external auditors.
• Other duties as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities: • Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and provide reports on a timely basis.
• High level of initiative and ability to work independently.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication and strong interpersonal skills.
• Multi-currency/international experience.
• Microsoft Office Suite with advanced knowledge using Microsoft Excel.
Desirable, but not required.
• Experience supporting offshore businesses is a plus.
• Experience supporting international activities.
• Vista, Sage, Deltek or other mainstream project-based ERP experience.
• US GAAP experience.
Education and Experience: • Recognized accountancy qualification, university degree or equivalent in accounting.
• Three to five years of project accounting experience.
• Project accounting experience, ideally in construction and/or engineering industries.
Working Conditions: The physical and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands: • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk, use hands to finger, handle objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; bending or crouching; talk or hear.
Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Some lifting of files, opening cabinets.
• Bending or standing as necessary.
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions and other elements prevalent at the time.
This description is not intended to be, nor should it be construed as an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills or working conditions associated with the position.
It is intended to accurately reflect the activities and requirements of the position, but duties may be added, deleted, or modified, as necessary.
This description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.
Who is Sealaska? Established in 1972, Sealaska is the Alaska Native regional corporation for Southeast Alaska.
Our 23,000 shareholders are Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people with more than 10,000 years of ancestral ties to the oceans, forests and communities of Southeast Alaska.
We serve the twin goals of economic prosperity and environmental protection.
Gregg Drilling, LLC is a subsidiary of Sealaska.
We are committed to providing the best possible climate for maximum development and goal achievement for all our employees.
As a subsidiary of a Native-owned company, Gregg Drilling, LLC is proud to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, with respect for the cultural traditions in the communities where we operate.
Gregg Drilling, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
All applicants are considered without regard to age, sex, race, national origin, religion, marital status or physical disability.
However, preference may be extended to an enrolled member of a federally-recognized Indian Tribe* *“Indian Tribe” means an Indian Tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat.
668; 43 U.
S.
C.
1601) which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.