Senior Project Accountant

Project Accountant, Capital Projects

 

Location: Primarily remote, with occasional travel to Client project sites in Arizona.

 

Summary:

The Project Accountant will provide accounting and financial support for major capital projects, with responsibility for project cost monitoring, contractor payment administration, financial reporting, accruals, and month-end close activities. This contract position partners closely with Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Project Controls, Procurement, Operations, and Site Finance teams to maintain accurate project financial information and deliver actionable financial insights. The ideal candidate combines strong accounting knowledge, analytical capability, and cross-functional communication skills with experience supporting capital, construction, mining, or cost-intensive projects.

 

Job Duties:

Capital Project Accounting

• Monitor and analyze project costs, commitments, accruals, budgets, and forecasts.
• Review project expenditures to determine appropriate accounting treatment, including capital versus operating expense classification.
• Assist with asset capitalization models, asset group development, and project closeout activities.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting cycles.
• Prepare monthly project financial reports, variance analyses, and management reporting packages.
• Perform budget-to-actual reviews and provide clear explanations for significant variances.
• Coordinate with Project Controls and Operations teams to validate project costs and forecasts.
• Support fixed asset accounting and capitalization activities throughout the project lifecycle.

Contractor Payment Administration

• Coordinate contractor payment application processing and approval workflows.
• Review contractor invoices and payment applications for accuracy and compliance with applicable contract terms.
• Collaborate with Contracts, Procurement, and Project Controls personnel to research and resolve invoice or payment discrepancies.
• Help maintain timely, accurate, and properly supported contractor payment records.

Month-End Close and Accruals

• Prepare project accruals and journal entries.
• Reconcile project account balances and investigate unusual or unexpected transactions.
• Review open commitments, service receipts, and project activity reports.
• Confirm that project financial information is complete, accurate, and properly recorded during close activities.
• Support the timely completion of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end accounting requirements.

Financial Analysis and Reporting

• Analyze project financial performance and identify material cost, commitment, and forecast variances.
• Develop clear reporting packages that support management review and project decision-making.
• Maintain accurate financial data within applicable enterprise resource planning and reporting systems.
• Use Microsoft Excel and available reporting tools to organize, analyze, and communicate project financial information.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Project Managers, Engineers, Construction teams, Project Controls, Procurement, Operations, and Site Finance personnel.
• Participate in project meetings and provide relevant financial information and insights.
• Communicate accounting requirements and resolve financial issues with both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Support collaborative decision-making through accurate, timely, and clearly presented financial analysis.

 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum of three years of accounting experience.
• Experience in project accounting, capital projects, construction accounting, or cost accounting.
• Strong understanding of project costs, commitments, accruals, forecasts, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with enterprise resource planning systems; SAP experience is preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a primarily remote environment.
• Ability to travel occasionally to Client project sites in Arizona.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting large capital construction or mining projects.
• Knowledge of fixed asset accounting and capitalization requirements.
• Experience with Aconex, SharePoint, Power BI, or comparable project management and reporting tools.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), or progress toward either certification.

 

 

 

 

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

 

About Teal Energi:

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.