Project Accountant

Project Accountant

We are looking for a detail-oriented Project Accountant to join our team in Bridgewater, New Jersey. In this role, you will play a key part in managing project accounting, revenue, and financial reporting while collaborating with multiple departments to ensure accuracy and compliance. This position offers an excellent opportunity to grow your accounting expertise in a dynamic and engaging environment.

Responsibilities :

• Apply revenue recognition principles by analyzing customer contracts, identifying performance obligations, and allocating transaction prices.
• Support project accounting processes, including tracking costs, billing, accruals, change orders, and work-in-progress.
• Perform bank reconciliations and ensure accuracy in financial transactions.
• Process journal entries and assist with reconciling the general ledger.
• Review and code invoices to the correct projects or entities, ensuring timely and accurate accounts payable processing.
• Contribute to month-end and quarter-end close activities by ensuring project-level revenue and cost recognition are completed on time.
• Assist in creating project-level budgets and forecasts, comparing actuals against estimates, and reporting variances.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Legal, and Billing teams to ensure compliance with contract terms.
• Maintain thorough documentation related to revenue recognition and project accounting processes to support audits.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and systems related to project accounting and internal controls.

Requirements :

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