Lead Project Accountant

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes description about HDR culture etc. We need to use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, duplicated lines, application instructions. We need to parse the posting. Let's extract sections: - About the role: The paragraph describing the role: "HDR Washington's BES group is looking for a Lead Project Accountant to lead a team of project accountants in supporting a diverse group of projects. The chosen candidate will partner closely with business leadership in maintaining program controls and financial health across the projects." Also maybe the earlier culture description is not about role but company. Could be considered About the role? Usually "About the role" includes description of role and team. We'll include that. - Responsibilities: The bullet list after "In the role of Lead Project Accountant, we'll count on you to:" includes many items. We'll list each as

. - Requirements: Might be "Required Qualifications" section. Also "Preferred Qualifications". Could combine? The instruction: Use headings Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. Typically "Requirements" could be required qualifications. "Qualifications" could be preferred qualifications? Or "Skills" could be skills. We need to map content. We have: Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related business degree - Experience successfully managing and training a team - Strong interpersonal skills and “can-do” attitude. - Strong organizational skills; able to manage priorities and workflow on multiple simultaneous projects. - Highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Outlook, and PowerPoint. - Experience with document management software (e.g. Bentley ProjectWise, E-builder, Document Express) strongly desired. - A/E industry experience required - Ability to deal effectively with a diversity of individuals at all organizational levels. - Commitment to excellence and high standards. Required Qualifications: - Associate degree in a closely related field or combination of education and relevant experience - A minimum of 5 years of experience; an advanced degree may offset years of experience - Proficiency with MS Office including Word and Outlook - Excellent verbal and written communication including grammar, punctuation, proofreading, spelling and telephone skills - Flexibility and ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and collaborate with various managers in a fast-paced environment - Self-motivated, well-organized and detail-oriented - Ability to handle confidential information - An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must Also there is "What We Believe", "Our Commitment", benefits description, compensation range, location, schedule, etc. We need Benefits section: The posting includes: "We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.)" Also location: {Bellevue, WA}: $96,180 - $137,400 Primary Location: United States-Washington-Bellevue Industry: Administrative Schedule: Full-time Employee Status: Regular BusinessClass: Marketing and Admin Job Posting: Sep 15, 2026 Pay: The expected compensation range: "$96,180 - $137,400". Also location specific. Schedule: Full-time. Thus we can include Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections. We must not include headings with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. We must remove boilerplate: EEO, etc. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Thus produce something like:

About the role

HDR Washington's BES group is looking for a Lead Project Accountant to lead a team of project accountants in supporting a diverse group of projects. The chosen candidate will partner closely with business leadership in maintaining program controls and financial health across the projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a Project Accountant (PA) team for a Business Group.
• QC contract documents for the business group project accounting team prior to signatures.
• Run monthly financial meetings for business group delivery projects.
• Maintain even workload distribution among project accounting team and assign project support work as needed.
• Train new PA staff and communicate new processes to the business group project accounting team.
• Serve as the centralized point of contact for accounting or contract related questions or tasks on assigned projects.
• Provide detailed analysis and reporting on project status within the established accounting system or other developed tracking tools.
• Be responsible for analyzing, preparing, validating and maintaining budget estimates, detailed baseline budgets, work package agreements, and daily/weekly/monthly cost variance reports.
• Team with technical staff, project leads and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision-makers related to project accounting.
• Utilize earned value management techniques or other financial reporting techniques to communicate to the Project Team relationships and variances between planned work, executed work, and actual costs.
• Lead on managing subconsultant agreements, subconsultant invoices and release of payments to subconsultants per their contract terms and conditions.
• Assist in AR collection for business group projects.
• Assist the Area Accounting Manager in supporting local operations Area leadership teams
• Be responsible for supporting accounting functions for an area business group
• Primary responsibilities include sharing in supervising, training & mentoring responsibilities of Area Resources business group accounting staff, for all facets of project and contract financial management, as well as, assisting Area Accounting Manager to ensure general accounting functions maintained for the Area.
• Perform specialized accounting functions and establish internal controls for procedures and practices in accordance with company policies, accounting procedures and contractual obligations within the resources business group.
• Work directly with Area Operations Manager, Business Group Managers and Assistant Regional Accounting Director (ARAD) to manage and coordinate department and project accounting systems to monitor department general ledger accounts, project budgets, invoicing, payables, receivables and other related financial information
• Audit compliance with contractual requirements, which may include invoicing and reporting format, net fee projections and financial quality control
• Review and analyze financial statements
• Assist area business group manager in coordinating and reviewing annual departmental budgets
• Advise management on financial performance of area business group and projects
• Supervise the activity of area business group accountants for the collection of employee time and expense reports and verification of project numbers, resource codes, and receipts
• Supervise the activity of area business group accountants and project controllers specific to project accounting and contractual obligations
• Make staffing recommendations to management
• Select and/or deal directly with vendors related to department operations as needed
• Perform other accounting and contracting administration support to accounting staff, Project Managers, Engineers, and Business Group Managers, as needed.

Requirements

• Associate degree in a closely related field or combination of education and relevant experience
• A minimum of 5 years of experience; an advanced degree may offset years of experience
• Proficiency with MS Office including Word and Outlook
• Excellent verbal and written communication including grammar, punctuation, proofreading, spelling and telephone skills
• Flexibility and ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and collaborate with various managers in a fast-paced environment
• Self-motivated, well-organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to handle confidential information
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related business degree
• Experience successfully managing and training a team
• Strong interpersonal skills and “can-do” attitude.
• Strong organizational skills; able to manage priorities and workflow on multiple simultaneous projects.
• Highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with document management software (e.g. Bentley ProjectWise, E-builder, Document Express) strongly desired.
• A/E industry experience required
• Ability to deal effectively with a diversity of individuals at all organizational levels.
• Commitment to excellence and high standards.

Skills

Maybe we could combine some skills? But we already have qualifications and requirements. Could we put technical skills under Skills? The posting mentions proficiency with MS Office, document management software, etc. Those are already in qualifications. Could we still have a Skills section? Might be redundant. Better to omit Skills if no distinct content beyond what's already covered. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could omit Skills.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• Short and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time away
• Parental leave
• Paid holidays
• Retirement savings plan with employer match
• Employee referral bonus
• Tuition reimbursement

(Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.)

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position is $96,180 - $137,400 (based in Bellevue, WA).

Schedule

Full-time

We also need to include location? Could be part of Pay or separate? Not required heading. Could embed in Pay paragraph. We must not include duplicated lines. Ensure we didn't repeat any. Check for any boilerplate leftover: "What We Believe", "Our Commitment", "Employee Network Groups", etc. Those are boilerplate? They are about culture but not specific to role. Might be considered boilerplate? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "What We Believe" and "Our Commitment" are not EEO but are generic company statements. Might be considered boilerplate? Not sure. The instruction says to remove boilerplate, but not explicitly to remove culture statements. However they are not specific to the role. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." The culture statements are substantive about company but not role. Might be considered boilerplate? Usually they'd be removed. Safer to omit them as they are not directly about the role. The posting also includes "Watch Our Story:" link; that's navigation/link, remove. Thus we omit those. Now ensure we didn't miss any responsibilities: The list after "In the role of Lead Project Accountant, we'll count on you to:" includes many items; we captured them. Need to verify we didn't miss any: Let's re-extract from text: "In the role of Lead Project Accountant, we'll count on you to: Lead and supervise a