Project Cost Accountant

Location: Anchorage, AK, with travel to Vancouver, the Donlin Gold Project site, and other project locations as required.

About the Role

The Project Cost Accountant supports the financial and cost-control activities of the Donlin Gold Project, serving as a key link between accounting records and project cost-control systems. This role ensures project costs, commitments, accruals, forecasts, and expenditures are accurately recorded, reconciled, analyzed, and reported. Working closely with Project Controls, Finance, Contracts and Procurement, Engineering, Construction, and project management, the Project Cost Accountant provides financial visibility to support effective cost management and project decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate project cost records and ensure expenditures are properly coded to project accounts, WBS/CBS elements, contracts, purchase orders, and general ledger accounts.
• Review project invoices and expenses for appropriate coding, supporting documentation, contractual alignment, and financial accuracy.
• Reconcile project cost-control records to the general ledger and investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Monitor actual expenditures against budgets, forecasts, commitments, and available funding.
• Prepare and maintain monthly project accruals and work with project teams to validate outstanding financial obligations.
• Monitor contracts, purchase orders, commitments, invoices, and remaining contract values to support accurate forecasting.
• Assist with Estimate at Completion (EAC), Estimate to Complete (ETC), cash-flow forecasting, and monthly project cost reporting.
• Support the financial evaluation and tracking of contract changes, purchase order changes, and approved change orders.
• Review contractor and vendor invoices for compliance with contract terms, approved rates, purchase orders, and supporting documentation.
• Prepare reconciliations, variance analyses, cost summaries, and other financial reports for project leadership.
• Analyze actual costs against budget and forecast to identify trends, variances, and potential issues.
• Support monthly financial close activities, audits, project reviews, and financial inquiries.
• Maintain accurate supporting documentation and audit trails for project financial transactions and adjustments.
• Support continuous improvement of project accounting, cost-control, and reporting processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• CPA, CMA, or other relevant professional certification preferred, but not required.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible accounting, project accounting, or project cost-control experience.
• Experience supporting large capital projects, engineering and construction projects, mining, oil and gas, infrastructure, or other major industrial projects strongly preferred.
• Experience working with contracts, purchase orders, commitments, accruals, forecasts, and project cost reporting.
• Experience reconciling project cost-control systems to general ledger accounting records.
• Experience working in a multi-contractor or EPC/EPCM project environment preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and project cost-accounting practices.
• Working knowledge of project cost controls, budgeting, forecasting, commitments, accruals, and variance analysis.
• Ability to work with WBS/CBS structures and project cost codes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and investigate financial discrepancies.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with ERP, accounting, and project cost-control systems.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and monthly reporting deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across Finance, Project Controls, Procurement, Engineering, Construction, and contractor organizations.
• Ability to appropriately handle confidential and financially sensitive information.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Benefits

The Donlin Gold Project offers the opportunity to contribute to one of the world’s largest undeveloped gold deposits while working alongside experienced professionals across project controls, finance, engineering, construction, procurement, and project management. This role provides the opportunity to be closely involved in the financial management of a large, complex capital project and to help establish accurate, consistent, and effective project cost-control practices as the Project advances.