Financial Accounting Coordinator

Turner & Townsend seeks a driven and highly motivated Financial Accounting Coordinator to support Turner & Townsend's Southern California construction management team. The ideal candidate will be skilled with managing financials, accounting and numbers with limited supervision.

Provide financial, budgeting and planning analysis on a broad array of initiatives.

• Establish and maintain close working relationships with leadership to support decision making through forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning.
• Review, analysis and reporting of financial and cost data.
• Ensure transparent and consistent adherence to local financial accounting laws and principles including tax and duties issues.
• Develop, implement and update Project Accounting Plans.
• Manage the interface to affiliates finance - respectively procurement department.
• Agree on systems and requirements with local finance department and set up the work breakdown structure using local accounting system coding.
• Establish contact with the Local Accounting Director and secure the secondment of one of the Affiliate’s Accountants to the project team.
• Implement the project financial accounting procedures and systems.
• Define roles and responsibility, process and cost coding with local departments with placing purchase orders and execute invoicing.
• Provide actual cost data from accounting system.
• Ensure actual data figures in Local Accounting System are project related and coded accurately
• Reconcile cost data of project cost ledger(s) and accounting system(s).
• Administer (sub-) contracts and purchase orders including associated insurance policies, bank guarantees and project assets.
• Administer change order, mobilization and (pre-) authorization logs.
• Support financial project close-out.
• Ensure that the Project Financial Accounting Process is carried out in accordance with the Project Financial Accounting Procedure and the Project Financial Accounting Plan.
• Ensure transparent and consistent adherence to local financial accounting laws and principle including tax and duties issues.

Requirements

• Experience working in financial/accounting, and administrative roles.
• Outstanding financial and accounting skills.
• Understanding of the invoicing process, Accounts Payable, etc.
• Experienced preparing financial reports and presentations.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Construction Management or Engineering.
• Experience working on construction projects desirable but not required.
• Applied experience using financial management software.
• Skilled with identifying and streamlining new processes.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including great communication.
• Ability to demonstrate collaborative behaviors.
• Proactive, organized and thorough with a strong work ethic.
• High IT literacy. Experience of analysing data and presenting Management Information is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Self-starter which requires minimal supervision.
• Able to apply governance, maintain quality and rigid QA/QC.
• Experience with Dynamics 365 is desirable but not required