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Project Accounting Specialist

Milestone Contractors LP
Lafayette, IN Full Time
POSTED ON 4/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/15/2025
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The Project Accounting Specialist provides administrative and accounting support on construction projects

Essential Functions

  • Assists in day to day project accounting operations
  • Reviews field reporting for reasonableness and accuracy as compared to estimate, submitted documentation and customer records
  • Researches and codes receiving tickets
  • Codes invoices from vendors
  • Enters data for weekly cost/variance report
  • Scans and files documentation into the electronic and/or physical job file
  • Duties may encompass some or all duties of a project control associate as staffing, workload and experience dictates
  • Communicates with internal/external customers
  • Answers inquiries professionally via phone, email or in-person
  • Visits job sites as needed to expand knowledge base
  • Develops effective relationships internally with field, operations and estimating personnel and externally with customers, subcontractors and suppliers
  • Promotes and maintains safe work environment
  • Exhibits safe work behaviors
  • Wears all prescribed PPE
  • Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, including but not limited to continuously growing in alignment with the Company’s core values, competencies, and skills.

Education Qualifications

  • Required High School or Equivalent is required

Experience Qualifications

  • Preferred 1 years experience in heavy highway construction industry preferred
  • Preferred 1 years experience with accounting software (i.e. Vista, QuickBooks, Timberline) preferred

Skills And Abilities

  • Accountability
  • Communication
  • Decision Making/Decision Quality
  • Ethics/Integrity
  • Instills trust
  • Organization
  • Self-motivation
  • Teamwork Orientation
  • Ability to work unassisted in current version of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Outlook) or equivalent

Licenses and Certifications

  • Valid Drivers License is required Required

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

  • Clerical, indoor office environment that includes standard office equipment such as computers, photocopiers, phones, filing cabinets, fax machines, cubicles
  • Some exposure to construction job sites, including inclement weather, noise, moving traffic
  • Sits at a desk 6 - 8 hours a day
  • Looks at a computer screen 6 - 8 hours a day
  • Performs data entry, alpha and 10-key numeric, on a keyboard
  • Uses copier to copy/fax/scan documents
  • Files documents
  • Travel to field offices, job sites and other area offices is occasionally expected

About Milestone Contractors

Milestone Contractors is a privately held, family-owned business headquartered in Indianapolis. Milestone Contractors is a fully integrated heavy construction company specializing in highway, bridge, asphalt and concrete paving and site development. Over its 30-year history, Milestone has built a reputation for prioritizing safety, quality, people and innovation. Milestone Contractors is a part of The Heritage Group's family of companies. Learn more at https://www.milestonelp.com/

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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