Project Accountant
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Job Description
What Sets This Role Apart
- Expand Your Reach: Support a variety of KPFF offices during transitions or staffing gaps gaining insight into different project types teams and operational styles.
- Be a Trusted Partner: Go beyond transactions. Youll help project managers interpret budgets plan billing and navigate project financials with confidence.
- Opportunities to Lead: Share your knowledge by leading trainings contributing to webinars and helping improve processes across the firm.
- Become a Systems Expert: As you deepen your ERP expertise youll become a go-to contact for troubleshooting guidance and process improvement.
- Bring More Than Numbers: Your ability to communicate clearly adapt to different styles and work collaboratively is just as important as financial accuracy.
How Youll Contribute
Project Cost Management & Invoicing:
- Generate timely accurate invoices in collaboration with Project Managers.
- Use BST (our ERP system) to manage labor hours expenses and subconsultant costs.
- Track project budgets and burn rates flagging potential overruns or billing issues early.
- Manage accounts receivable and proactively resolve billing discrepancies.
- Support financial integrity through accurate coding documentation and reconciliations.
Financial Insight & Integrity:
- Prepare monthly WIP and revenue reports to support accurate revenue recognition and forecasting.
- Assist with month-end close by contributing journal entries reconciliations and project-level reporting.
- Build and share financial metrics that provide clear visibility into project performance.
- Ensure compliance with GAAP and KPFF internal controls.
Collaboration Training & Process Improvement:
- Provide approachable financial guidance to project teams across multiple offices.
- Support project setup and ERP consistency through internal collaboration and documentation.
- Lead or contribute to training sessions on billing budgeting and system workflows.
- Translate financial data into practical insights that empower informed decision-making.
- Identify and implement process improvements that enhance accuracy and team efficiency.
- Serve as a collaborative thought partner on G&A initiatives and firmwide strategy.
Qualifications :
About You
- 38 years of experience in accounting finance or a related field
- Experience in project-based financial work such as invoicing accounts receivable revenue recognition and subconsultant coordination
- Familiarity with project setup WIP tracking and cost monitoring in a professional services or consulting environment
- ERP experience or other project-based financial platforms
- Proficient in Excel for reporting reconciliation and budget tracking with working knowledge of PowerPoint and Word
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills with a personable proactive and approachable communication style
- Skilled at breaking down financial concepts into clear straightforward language for different audiences
- Emotionally intelligent and adaptable. Comfortable flexing your communication style across different teams and experience levels
- Self-starter with a trusted advisor mindset who takes ownership and pride in the quality of their work
- History of contributing to process improvements and documentation that support team efficiency
- Highly organized detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced collaborative environment
- Comfortable supporting multiple offices and partnering across disciplines including project managers administrators and leadership
Additional Information :
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Duties are typically performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table
- Ability to actively engage with a computer for several hours per day and communicate over the telephone or virtual meeting platforms.
- May occasionally need to lift items up to 15 lbs.
- This is an in-office role based in downtown Seattle with flexible hours between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm
Benefits
We believe that supporting our people goes beyond the work itself. Thats why we offer a flexible comprehensive benefits package designed to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
Benefits include:
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer contribution
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Life insurance
- KPFF Paid Family Leave
- Short-term and Long-term disability insurance
- Paid Holidays (including two Floating Holidays)
- Paid Time Off (vacation sick jury duty)
- Subsidized ORCA bus/rail pass
Compensation & Recognition
We offer a competitive base salary aligned with your skills experience and background. For candidates with 38 years of relevant experience the typical salary range is $75000$90000. We also recognize individual and team success through performance-based bonuses at the Reporting Center level.
Work Authorization: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or transfer. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored visa support now or in the future.
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KPFF Consulting Engineers participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
KPFF Consulting Engineers is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color creed ethnicity national origin religion marital status sex/gender (including sexual orientation or gender identity) pregnancy veteran status citizenship status physical or mental disability or any other protected basis.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
