Project Accountant I

The Project Accountant role is fully remote (or work from our luxury offices in Chicago, Indianapolis, Boston, NYC, Gladstone NJ if preferred). 

***Unfortunately, we are not able to provide sponsorship assistance at this time or in the future.*** 

We at PRECISIONeffect are offering a rarely available opportunity to join our dynamic group of client-facing healthcare agency pros as a Project Accountant. Be a part of our highly skilled top-shelf team that is responsible for keeping us moving forward!

Who are we

We welcome and champion fun, significant, hard and rewarding experiences to deliver impactful results time and time again. We are a group of healthcare enthusiasts who relish the ability to educate, engage and activate on our clients behalf. Our clients deliver exceptional products that change people’s lives. We create extraordinary messaging that changes minds; that’s just who we are. And it’s the only way we work.

We are teammates that understand success is not stagnant. It is never "one" and "done," sharing an unspoken agreement to always improve and dazzle -influencing changing the standard of care.

A bit about the role:

The Project Accountant will assist in the overall financial management for our client portfolio, reporting, general day-to-day activities, and related month end close duties.

• Assist with the overall monthly project accounting efforts including taking notes from the monthly status meetings with project managers and making project updates across various systems
• Setup new projects awarded in revenue file and accounting system, including verifying to contract/statement of work, agreeing to Salesforce and escalating discrepancies
• Assist with updating project files validating change orders, budget adjustments & carve outs, and updating project revenue file for specific project milestones/tasks
• Assist with the preparation and investigation of hours and expenses for client projects incurred including review of assigned billing roles/rates
• Prepare client invoicing based on contracts and follow up with customers on past due invoices. When applicable, create and maintain waterfall of invoicing per contracts
• Assist in the preparation of monthly client accruals
• Track project costs compared to contracted amounts as well as other direct costs shared across projects/clients
• Update basic and routine monthly general ledger account reconciliations. Collaborate with SG&A team where applicable
• Assist with ad hoc projects as applicable
• Assist in pulling supporting documents for the annual audit

Qualifications:

Minimum Required:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum concentration accounting, finance or business
• 0-2 years of relevant accounting/finance experience

Other Required:

• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Preferred:

• Agency or Professional Services experience a plus
• Month end close experience
• Revenue Recognition experience
• Project Accounting experience
• Client Services/Client Facing experience

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