Project Accountant

Career Team is a leading workforce development organization on a mission to transform lives. We blend cutting-edge technology with compassionate, high-touch services to drive real, measurable outcomes in the lives of job seekers across the country.

About the role

The Project Accountant is responsible for all financial activities within the project, focusing on invoicing, analyzing, and reporting project financial status. This role requires interaction with co-workers and customers at all levels, thriving in a fast-paced environment while maintaining flexibility, proactivity, resourcefulness, and efficiency. The Project Accountant must uphold a high level of accuracy and confidentiality while working under the supervision of the Project Director.

Responsibilities

• Ensure procedures and policies are in place to facilitate effective and efficient financial reporting and compliance with Federal, local, State, and corporate policies.
• Direct fiscal operations relating to financial planning, funds management, accounting, and reporting.
• Prepare and maintain project budgets, forecasts, and working capital requirements.
• Work closely with senior company leadership, the Project Director, staff, and the Workforce Board to provide financial insight and reporting on assigned projects.
• Ensure the project fulfills all financial obligations in a timely and economic manner in accordance with established policies, budgets, and funding guidelines.
• Coordinate accounting activities for assigned projects, including establishing and monitoring procedures and policies by contract.
• Process employee expenses, participant expenses, vendor invoices, and program payroll analytics.
• Prepare monthly project advance requests, invoices, and supporting documentation, and work with Workforce Boards on inquiries to ensure timely payment.
• Perform month-end closing activities, including Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Perform financial reporting, including budgets, forecasts, and associated comparisons.
• Support annual audit deliverables and manage periodic program audit requests.
• Approach each day and task with a “ZAG” mindset.
• Handle other duties and projects as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting, business, finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience with 5+ years of accounting experience (preferred).
• Demonstrated knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), ability to reconcile balance sheets and profit/loss reports, and implement financial management policies and procedures.
• Experience with budgeting and forecasting across multiple funding streams and communicating the contract's financial position.
• Advanced computer skills in MS Excel and accounting software, with QuickBooks, Adaptive, Workday, and Expensify experience a plus.
• Ability to work in a dynamic team environment with excellent teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work across all levels of management and staff.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational, analytical, research, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to meet accounting month-end deadlines, be proactive, and work independently and in a virtual team environment.
• Must possess integrity and maintain confidentiality.

Skills

• Master's or MBA degree (preferred).
• Bilingual or multilingual (preferred).
• Training in Trauma Informed Care, evidence-based practice, and/or whole family services (preferred).

Pay

$45,000 - $49,000/yr

About Career Team

Founded in 1996, Career Team, LLC is a private workforce development organization. Career Team’s outstanding record of accelerating the human condition has resulted in numerous honors, including:

• Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest-growing privately held companies.
• Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation.
• Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine, and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government-funded solutions program.
• Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider.

As a socially conscious organization, Career Team balances for-profit innovation with community enrichment. The organization continues to close the nation’s opportunity divide with additional government-funded workforce sites while building staff capacity of workforce funding sources and industry providers.