Project Accountant

Job Description

Project Accountant I | GFT

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at GFT, located in Seattle, WA. GFT, a privately held AEC firm with over 5,000 employees, specializes in the Infrastructure of Life, innovating where transportation, water, power, and buildings converge. This Project Accountant position is crucial for maintaining financial accuracy, ensuring client compliance, and facilitating timely invoicing across diverse projects. GFT builds a lasting legacy for future generations, strengthening communities, promoting a healthier planet, and improving lives.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid Seattle, WA
• Pay: $56000–$65000 yearly
• Team: Shared Services team
• Mission: Take ownership of complex project accounting functions that ensure financial accuracy, client compliance, and timely invoicing across a range of projects.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, BST, Deltek, Client Portals

What You’ll Actually Do
• Contract Compliance: Interpret client contracts to ensure accurate project set-up and compliance with corporate requirements.
• Project Data Management: Enter and maintain new and revised project data, including budgets, work breakdown structures, and billing details, in the Project Accounting System.
• Invoicing & Reconciliation: Prepare monthly draft and final invoice packets for clients, ensuring accuracy, and post final invoices to accounts receivable.
• Financial Analysis & Audit Support: Conduct in-depth Work-in-Process and Project Closeout Analysis, and support internal and external audits.
• System Improvement & Training: Partner with IT and other departments to test, maintain, and improve Project Accounting System functionality and invoice formats, and assist in training project accounting staff.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field, or an Associate’s degree.
• Experience: At least 2 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree (or 4 years with an Associate’s degree), including 0-2 years specifically in project accounting.
• Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat; working knowledge of project accounting software such as BST or Deltek; ability to prepare advanced invoices using Project Accounting Systems, Excel, and Client Portals; strong written, verbal, and organizational skills; exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and time management.
• Bonus: Experience in project accounting within a professional services environment.