Financial Accounting Coordinator – Construction Management

Company Description

From the inception of a project through to completion and beyond, Turner & Townsend help to deliver the outcomes that matter through transformational programs covering the full spectrum of consultancy, project delivery and post-project operations.

With offices located globally, you're never far away from our services. Working from 118 offices in 50 countries, we make the difference to projects across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Turner & Townsend seeks a driven and highly motivated Financial Accounting Coordinator to support Turner & Townsend's Seattle construction management team. The ideal candidate will be skilled with managing financials, accounting and numbers with limited supervision.

Job Description

• Provide financial, budgeting and planning analysis on a broad array of initiatives.
• Establish and maintain close working relationships with leadership to support decision making through forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning.
• Review, analysis and reporting of financial and cost data.
• Ensure transparent and consistent adherence to local financial accounting laws and principles including tax and duties issues.
• Develop, implement and update Project Accounting Plans.
• Manage the interface to affiliates finance - respectively procurement department.
• Agree on systems and requirements with local finance department and set up the work breakdown structure using local accounting system coding.
• Establish contact with the Local Accounting Director and secure the secondment of one of the Affiliate’s Accountants to the project team.
• Implement the project financial accounting procedures and systems.
• Define roles and responsibility, process and cost coding with local departments with placing purchase orders and execute invoicing.
• Provide actual cost data from accounting system.
• Ensure actual data figures in Local Accounting System are project related and coded accurately
• Reconcile cost data of project cost ledger(s) and accounting system(s).
• Administer (sub-) contracts and purchase orders including associated insurance policies, bank guarantees and project assets.
• Administer change order, mobilization and (pre-) authorization logs.
• Support financial project close-out.
• Ensure that the Project Financial Accounting Process is carried out in accordance with the Project Financial Accounting Procedure and the Project Financial Accounting Plan.
• Ensure transparent and consistent adherence to local financial accounting laws and principle including tax and duties issues.

Qualifications

• Experience working in financial/accounting, and administrative roles.
• Outstanding financial and accounting skills.
• Understanding of the invoicing process, Accounts Payable, etc.
• Experienced preparing financial reports and presentations.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Construction Management or Engineering.
• Experience working on construction projects desirable but not required.
• Applied experience using financial management software.
• Skilled with identifying and streamlining new processes.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including great communication.
• Ability to demonstrate collaborative behaviors.
• Proactive, organized and thorough with a strong work ethic.

• High IT literacy. Experience of analysing data and presenting Management Information is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Self-starter which requires minimal supervision.
• Able to apply governance, maintain quality and rigid QA/QC.

Additional Information

The salary range for this full-time role is $85K-$100K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package.  Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications.