Senior Project Accountant America

Key responsibilities:

• Business Partnering with Project Managers, Project Delivery Teams and Senior Operations Management.
• Participate in project review preparation, execution and follow up.
• Project Commercial & Bid Support.
• Monitor project performance and key indicators. 
• Support Business as required in understanding project performance.
• Monitor and analyze revenue to ensure proper revenue recognition methods used. 
• Understand the commercial and billing requirements of projects, including complex issues.
• Assist in providing guidance to Ops teams on the requirements for DoA approvals where business is operating at risk.
• Month end close, including project revenue adjustments, WIP and loss provision analysis.
• Ensure consistent application of accounting standards across all projects in portfolio and support Ops teams in understanding of documentation requirements to support revenue recognition principles and SOX compliance.
• Internal and external audit support as and when required.

  Primary purpose of the Position

  Responsible for the finances of projects categorized in the C0 to C2 risk category bracket.
• Building and managing relationships with the operations teams to help drive understanding of project financial performance and the management of commercial and financial risks.
• Understanding of contracts and how revenue recognition is impacted will be key in this position as well as providing financial support at bid, set-up, execution, and close out phases of the project lifecycle.
• Monthly accounting cycle responsibilities ensuring that AECOM’s monthly accounts are closed out in a timely manner and in accordance with revenue recognition policies.