Project Accountant

About the role

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Project Accountant to support accounting cleanup, reconciliation improvement, fixed asset review, journal entry corrections, and process documentation.

Responsibilities

• Review and clean up account reconciliations to ensure they properly support balances, identify errors, and provide meaningful accounting insight.
• Research general ledger activity to determine the source of discrepancies, misclassifications, or incorrect accounting treatment.
• Analyze fixed asset activity and determine whether transactions were properly capitalized or should have been expensed.
• Prepare correcting and adjusting journal entries as needed to resolve accounting errors.
• Evaluate amortization or depreciation activity and assist with reversing or correcting improperly recorded transactions.
• Research rebate activity, accrual balances, and related accounting entries to determine whether balances are accurate.
• Review historical accounting activity and supporting schedules to identify gaps, missing balances, or incorrect rollforwards.
• Partner with accounting team members to understand current processes and identify opportunities for cleanup or improvement.
• Create and update standard operating procedures, including documenting workflows, screenshots, key steps, and review points.
• Support accounting process improvement efforts by identifying inefficiencies, control gaps, or recurring issues.
• Work independently on assigned accounting projects with limited hand-holding while escalating questions appropriately.
• Follow existing workpapers, schedules, and accounting logic to continue projects in a consistent and organized manner.
• Aid with special projects related to reconciliations, journal entries, fixed assets, accruals, rebates, and accounting process cleanup.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of GAAP accounting principles.
• Solid knowledge of debits, credits, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and account analysis.
• Experience researching accounting discrepancies and determining proper accounting treatment.
• Hands-on experience preparing or reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Experience working within an ERP or larger accounting system such as NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or a similar platform.
• Ability to analyze general ledger detail and trace transactions back to supporting documentation.
• Strong Excel skills, including working with large data sets, schedules, reconciliations, and rollforward files.
• Excellent organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently, ask thoughtful questions, and take ownership of assigned projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to dig into messy or incomplete accounting records.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or CPA-track background preferred, but not required.
• Prior consulting, project accounting, accounting cleanup, or interim accounting experience.
• Experience supporting process improvement, system cleanup, or accounting transformation projects.
• Experience documenting SOPs or formal accounting procedures.
• Experience mentoring or guiding accounting staff is a plus.
• NetSuite experience is helpful but not required.