Project Finance & Accounting Specialist

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Overall Purpose
ADS is seeking a Project Accounting & Finance Professional for a full-time role within the Finance organization. This highly visible position partners closely with Contracts, Finance, and other cross functional team members to support project accounting, project setup and maintenance, financial reporting, forecasting, and related financial processes. The role provides broad exposure across the business and offers the opportunity to support operational excellence initiatives while gaining experience across project accounting, ERP systems, and financial operations.
Job Responsibilities
Support the duly executed contract process
Project setup and modification transactions in ERP (Costpoint/Deltek).
Reconcile project details between CRM (Dynamics) and ERP (Costpoint/Deltek).
Review new project setups for alignment with revenue recognition rules.
Monitor project financials dashboard, including backlog, burn %, and profitability indicators.
Support other financial analyst tasks
Validate project cost entries for accuracy, including labor, materials, and subcontractors.
Respond to operational leadership about project performance, costs, or issues.
Investigate anomalies in revenue, margin, or cost trends flagged in systems.
Track real-time KPIs relevant to assigned regions, including billable utilization, productivity, and bookings quality.
Resolve accounting questions or data discrepancies across regions.
Coordinate with other RBAs to ensure consistent processes across offices.
Provide finance support to Operations and PMs on urgent matters, including change orders, pricing clarifications, and cost allocations.
Support month-end responsibilities
Prepare revenue recognition entries, including percentage-of-completion, cost-to-cost, milestone, or other models.
Prepare project cost adjustments, accruals, and true-ups.
Reconcile project margins and identify major drivers of variance.
Prepare monthly journal entries, including revenue, deferrals, accruals, and reclasses.
Validate P&L and balance sheet accuracy for assigned regions.
Support financial reporting
Consolidate regional financials into the monthly reporting package.
Provide commentary on revenue performance, margins, SG&A, and variances.
Deliver flash reporting and final P&L package for corporate FP&A.
Ensure financial statements comply with US GAAP and corporate policy.
Support project and operational review
Prepare monthly project health scorecards.
Lead monthly business review inputs for leadership.
Partner with Operations to review underperforming projects and establish recovery plans.
Support financial forecasting tasks
Refresh rolling weekly forecast files, including revenue, labor, and cost-to-complete updates.
Validate forecast assumptions with PMs and regional leadership.
Track progress against AOP and call out deviations.
Lead monthly financial forecast refresh with regions, including revenue, cost, and cash flow.
Update revenue backlog burn-out schedule and equipment/service turn assumptions.
Consolidate regional forecasts into the business unit forecast.
Support process, controls, and business partnership
Review SOX control items, including approvals, documentation checks, and compliance items.
Validate overhead allocation and business unit cost drivers.
Support Operations with pricing strategy for new quotes.
Assist in resource planning based on pipeline and project commitments.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field preferred. Associate's degree required.
1-3 years experience in project accounting, operational accounting, financial analysis, project controls, or similar roles required.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
Experience with ERP systems and Microsoft Excel.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?
IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.
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