What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Accounting Manager position at ARS Aleut Construction?
JOB SUMMARY :
The Project Accounting Manager provides leadership and coordination of the company's accounting management functions and supports the Director of Accounting, accounting staff, and department managers. This position ensures company accounting procedures conform to accepted accounting principles.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Embrace the values of The Aleut Corporation (Aleut), which include honesty, integrity, accountability, respect, and perseverance.
- Perform duties and responsibilities with integrity and in a professional, fair, open-minded, ethical, and timely manner.
- Supervise project setup / revenue recognition per corporate policies and procedures.
- Coordinate budget and internal control process by liaising between finance and project control, program managers, and management.
- Recommend benchmarks for measuring subsidiary companies' and departments' financial and operating performance.
- Provide guidance and leadership to subsidiary operations and accounting staff on consistent and compliant accounting practices.
- Monitor and analyze monthly operating results against budget, developing project reporting to compare results to budget by contract.
- Monitor all A / R activities, including invoicing, unbilled, and receivables.
- Support monthly financial reporting, including updating monthly WIP reports.
- Monitor and analyze subsidiary monthly operating results against budget and anticipated contract performance.
- Support subsidiary cost proposal activity, preparing estimates, rate letters, ICE reports, and supporting documentation per the company's pricing strategies.
- Participate in establishing and implementing short-and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
- Participate in establishing and maintaining systems and controls that verify the integrity of all systems, processes, and data and enhance the Company's value.
- Provide financial trends and variance analysis, emphasizing contract and project performance.
- Work with other finance functional areas to coordinate month-end and year-end deadlines.
- May receive assignments from the CFO to assist with accurate and timely work to facilitate financial needs.
- Provide leadership and development to direct reports and delegate tasks and responsibilities effectively.
- Mentor employees, provide constant feedback, and conduct annual performance reviews.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
BENEFITS
PREFERENCE STATEMENT
The Aleut Corporation ("Aleut") is committed to providing employment and development opportunities for our shareholders and descendants. Aleut shall make employment selections first based on qualifications for the position. Preference shall then be given to eligible and qualified TAC shareholders and descendants per the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 43 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq., and other applicable laws.
Aleut is an equal-opportunity employer. Aleut shall select, train, and promote the most qualified individuals based on relevant work factors such as work quality, attitude, education, and experience so as not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, changes in marital status, pregnancy, parental status, physical or mental disability, age, status as a disabled veteran, special disabled veteran, Vietnam veteran, and all other eligible veterans, or other classifications protected by applicable law.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)