Project Accountant

Project Accountant

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you're in the right place.

As a Project Accountant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of project financials within our firm. You will be responsible for setting up new projects, maintaining project information, and coordinating various financial activities. This includes overseeing project billing, revenue projections, and collections, as well as working closely with project leadership to ensure profitability and accuracy in financial reporting.

What you will do :

• Provide effective financial management of projects by processing invoices, facilitating time transfers and cash receipts, and assisting Project Leadership in meeting profitability goals.
• Provide financial reports, respond to inquiries, research accounting issues, and process fee adjustments in collaboration with Project Leadership.
• Ensure timely and accurate invoicing by reviewing contract documentation, approving employee timesheets, and unposted labor reports
• Monitor reimbursable and direct expenses billed to projects
• Collaborate with project leadership on monthly draft invoice reviews and six-month revenue projections
• Assist in maintaining project budgets and analyzing project costs versus revenue and billings
• Set up and maintain accurate project information in the project management system
• Review and link contracts to projects, ensuring consistency with staffing and revenue forecasts
• Coordinate client insurance certificates for projects as needed
• Monitor accounts receivable aging reports and document collection attempts, providing updates on payment status to clients and project leadership

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned : every employee is literally invested in our clients' success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork we elevate the human experience through design, together. DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / M / F / Veteran / Disabled employer.