We're looking for a detail-oriented, organized, Senior Accountant to join our team in Lacey. Are you a behind-the-scenes superstar? Do you love being part of a team and taking on special projects? Then our team wants to hear from you!
Who we are
Our mission is to serve our clients, communities, and each other with creativity, knowledge, insight, and perspective. As a 100% employee-owned company, at SCJ we value curiosity, compassion, stewardship, integrity, and empowerment. Our fast-paced, fun, and flexible atmosphere offers the opportunity for meaningful work that challenges you, makes a difference, and improves communities.
We specialize in civil engineering, transportation planning & design, environmental & urban planning, landscape architecture & design, and public outreach. With great projects and a fun-loving team, our firm has been named as both one of the nation’s fastest-growing and best places to work multiple times. Our mantra “Anticipate. Envision. Create.” captures our work environment and project approach.
SCJ strives to employ top-quality people who will support the company’s unique culture — a place where we not only serve our clients but also one another. We routinely and easily cross job description “lines” to be part of getting something accomplished, no matter how small the task.
What you’ll be doing
- Prepare month-end journal entries. Update Excel sheets and Vantagepoint with journal entries.
- Balance general ledger accounts. Provide appropriate support for balance sheet accounts.
- Review daily accounts payable postings for accuracy. Ensuring accuracy with FAR guidelines and company policies.
- Maintain company-wide project cost accounting system. Take ownership of Vantagepoint and Electronic Invoicing; handle maintenance issues, special requests, and advanced processing.
- Primary contact for the FAR In-Direct Cost Rate Audit. Prepare and upload as needed schedules, reports, and documents to be used by the auditors by appropriate due dates. Answer questions as necessary.
- Provide required information to our third-party administrator for the 401k plan and ESOP plan. Coordinating with Payroll and preparing and providing the information needed to support allocations, testing, and other 401k or ESOP plan regulatory requirements that must be met.
- Responsible for leading the 401k and ESOP Audits. Working with internal staff, our third-party provider, and auditors to obtain and provide the required information, as well as filing the 5500 with the IRS when the audits are complete.
- Support yearly company financial statement review. Providing support to the CFO to help prepare any information that might be required by the auditors.
- Gather required information for the yearly insurance renewal. Gather the required information from various sources to fill out the appropriate business insurance forms as requested by the insurance companies and broker.
- Issue 1099’s each year. This will include reviewing our records to make sure the required 1099’s are filed with vendors and the IRS.
- Update current policies and procedures to include all areas of the department.
- Support in the yearly budget process as requested.
- Provide back-up as necessary for other roles within the department.
- Assist CFO with other special requests.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or similar field.
- Current knowledge of FAR and WSDOT Audit Guidelines.
- Knowledge of project accounting principles and practices.
- Excellent computer skills, with proficiency in the Microsoft Suite, especially Excel and Word.
- Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint accounting software is preferred.
- Detail-oriented and highly organized, with strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as experience interacting with clients and management staff.
- Service-oriented personality.
- Experience working with a project-based and private consulting firm is desired.
- Ability to handle a diverse workload of multiple projects, each with specific details, deadlines, and expectations.
- Excellent time management skills and comfort working with tight deadlines and quick turnarounds, while still paying keen attention to details.
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team, meet deadlines, and manage priorities.
- Character of high integrity, trustworthiness, and reliability.
What we bring
- An unbeatable culture: A collaborative work environment, exceptional operational support, creative and supportive co-workers, and a compassionate leadership team. Plus, other fun stuff, including firmwide parties, mugshots, gold-medal virtual baking classes, fitness challenges, fantasy football league, trivia nights…and a variety of other creative ways we have found to come together and hang out.
- Quality projects: We pursue work that improves communities, challenges us, and makes a difference.
- Community involvement opportunities and a charitable matching program.
- Paid time off, holidays, personal floating holiday.
- Retirement benefits: 401(k) plan & employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), health, disability, and other insurance plan options to fit your needs, including HSA & FSA.
This is not a remote position.
