Senior Project Accountant

RJN Group • Full-time • Downers Grove, Illinois, United States • 1d ago

Interested in working for the industry leader? Interested in having a substantial stake in an employee owned firm? Looking to help your neighbors and impact your local community? RJN Group employees can answer yes to all of those and more. Currently we are seeking a Senior Project Accountant to join the RJN family.

Position Summary:
The Senior Project Accountant is a high-impact role for the right candidate who enjoys maximizing company performance by ensuring timely/accurate project billings and supporting Project Managers (PM) in project administration. This role will support client billings, project setups, and monitoring of project performance through proactive communication with PMs and the accounting team. Project accounting support is typically aligned to assigned teams and/or projects.

Why You'll Like This Role:
• Meaningful visibility: your work will help leadership understand financial performance and make better decisions.
• Variety and ownership: you will balance project accounting responsibilities between regions along with process improvement, accounting, and special projects
• Room to improve: RJN values curiosity, practical problem-solving, and ideas that make the accounting function more efficient and insightful.
• Employee-owner mindset: your work supports a company where people are invested in doing excellent work and building long-term value.

Position Responsibilities:
• Effectively communicate with Project Managers (PM) and other project owners regarding contract documents, change orders and other contract modifications, approvals, and any additional services-related to project accounting.
• Prepare and deliver project invoices, including all applicable backup and gain the appropriate approvals.
• Research any unbilled issues to optimize the billing possibilities for the billing period.
• Maintain the billing folders for all projects, with all the appropriate documents, including expenses, and invoices, in accordance with standard procedures.
• Provide the accounts payables team member with advice on project coding, relative to invoicing and reimbursable expenses, as needed.
• Generate and distribute monthly project profitability reports.
• Set up new projects, make transfers of employee billable hours and/or expenses.
• Follow up on past due receivables for assigned offices with PMs and clients.
• Prepare special project analyses for the PMs and/or others.
• Assess and pursue opportunities for maximization of client billing; communicate with the Controller and/or Director of Finance, as to your observations and actions taken.
• Assist with preparing monthly account reconciliations and other analysis, as needed
• Provide year-end support of auditor requirements.
• Perform additional assignments, as directed.

Minimum Skills & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related discipline from an accredited institution
• 3-5 years of relevant accounting or finance experience, or 3+ years of public accounting experience
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Customer-centric focus and detail oriented
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Problem solving skills
• Multi-tasking and the ability to meet deadlines as well as adjust to changing priorities
• Collaborative and the ability to build and work across all levels of the organization as well as with vendors, subcontractors, and customers
• Professional with a high level of business acumen
• Can travel up to 10%

Preferred Skills & Experience:
• Experience with accounting in a project-based and/or professional service environment

RJN is an Employee Owned professional engineering and specialty field services firm providing sustainable collection system solutions for infrastructure owners. RJN is an ENR Top 500 Design Firm and Top 200 Environmental Firm as well as a Top 50 Trenchless Technology Design Firm.

Since 1975, RJN Group Inc. has provided our customers with value-driven engineering solutions to enable them to meet their service demands. Our employee-owned firm is capable of tackling projects of almost any scale; from small studies to multi-million dollar, total plant rehabilitations.

Our customers are also our neighbors.
We have offices from as far West as Colorado to the East Coast. This means that our staff are supporting the communities they live in. We are locals and take pride in keeping our communities and sister cities running. Those we work for have come to associate our name with trust, creativity, reliability and quality.

We let innovation take the lead. We perform unique services for water, wastewater, and stormwater systems, by investing in leading technologies to differentiate us, while keeping costs down and efficiency up

RJN provides a very competitive benefit package including:
• Company-funded employee stock ownership plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability insurance benefits
• 401K matching retirement plan
• Flexible work arrangements and schedule
• Tuition assistance including student loan repayment
• Professional development opportunities
• Wellness programs
• Paid Vacation, Personal, and Sick time off
• Holiday time off
• Casual dress code

RJN is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We support a diverse work force.

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