Senior Project Accountant

About the role

We'll count on you to provide detailed analysis and reporting on project or program status within an established system of project controls. You'll be responsible for analysis, developing and reporting associated with various project controls job duties, such as project baseline, work package agreements, cost control, cost estimation, earned value management (EVM), projections, variance analysis, schedules, project/program/portfolio integration or technical project reviews. You'll also serve as the centralized point of contact to internal and external business, team with technical staff, project leads and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision-makers within the scope of project controls, utilize information management, access controls management, configuration management, program integration and communications and risk management processes to support project teams, assist with customer interactions, including arranging and documenting periodic reviews and tracking project management deliverables and presenting project management status to external or internal customers, analyze, prepare, validate and maintain cost estimates, detailed baseline budgets, work package agreements, and monthly cost variance reports, utilize earned value management techniques or other management techniques to understand relationships between planned work, executed work, and actual costs, analyze the schedule, including ensuring that schedule logic is consistent and maintained, analyze what-if scenarios, review critical-path reviews (including secondary or tertiary critical-path, where applicable) as required, work with technical leads and/or project managers to ensure that risks and opportunities are integrated with schedule and budget and that goods and services of the proper quality are obtained when needed by the project, according to the project schedule, supervise junior project accountants as needed, and perform other duties as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide detailed analysis and reporting on project or program status within an established system of project controls
• Responsible for analysis, developing and reporting associated with various project controls job duties, such as project baseline, work package agreements, cost control, cost estimation, earned value management (EVM), projections, variance analysis, schedules, project/program/portfolio integration or technical project reviews
• Responsible for using knowledge and experience in project controls, support the technical project management team in project management activities
• Serve as the centralized point of contact to internal and external business
• Team with technical staff, project leads and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision-makers within the scope of project controls
• Utilize information management, access controls management, configuration management, program integration and communications and risk management processes to support project teams
• Aid with customer interactions, including arranging and documenting periodic reviews and tracking project management deliverables and presenting project management status to external or internal customers
• Analyze, prepare, validate and maintain cost estimates, detailed baseline budgets, work package agreements, and monthly cost variance reports
• Utilize earned value management techniques or other management techniques to understand relationships between planned work, executed work, and actual costs
• Analyze the schedule, including ensuring that schedule logic is consistent and maintained, analyze what-if scenarios, review critical-path reviews (including secondary or tertiary critical-path, where applicable) as required
• Work with technical leads and/or project managers to ensure that risks and opportunities are integrated with schedule and budget and that goods and services of the proper quality are obtained when needed by the project, according to the project schedule
• Supervise junior project accountants as needed
• Perform other duties as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• Associate degree in a closely related field or combination of education and relevant experience
• A minimum of 10 years of experience; an advanced degree may offset years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Understands the scope of work to sufficiently build and status schedules, cost plans, spend plans, within a variety of project controls tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 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
• Proficiency with MS Office including Word and Outlook

Qualifications

• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Benefits

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.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.)

Schedule

Full-time

Employee Status

Regular

Business Class

Marketing and Admin

Job Posting

Apr 11, 2026

Company Beliefs

We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.hdrinc.com/equal-employment-opportunity-employer). We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.

Our Commitment

We are committed to the principles of employment equity. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.