Project Accountant

Role Summary

The Project Accountant role provides financial support and advisory to the Project Manager. This is a role that reports to a financial function, typically to a Financial Controller, and is typically budgeted in the overhead costs of a project. This role is assigned to multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Set up project in financial systems including project funding, revenue recognition, bill plans, contract overrides and billing/revenue controls.
• Provide project pricing support (bill rates, contract overhead allowance, etc.).
• Support/review project setup and change orders in financial system (WBS, budgets, margin expectations, and contingency/reserves).
• Provide contractual and client compliance support including maintaining certificates of insurance, subcontractor/DBE reporting, rate/per diem caps, and identifying unallowable costs.
• Ensure project financials are accurately reported in line with the Project’s commercial authorization.




• Support financial performance of the project through monitoring project costs and recognized revenue (including calculating labour breakage/enhancements, overruns, missing bill/revenue rates, etc.).
• Support project team in monthly reviews from a financial perspective, including estimated gains/losses.
• Support DSO and collection efforts through monitoring unbilled costs, WIP, and AR in accordance to the terms and conditions of its contract, as approved by the project manager.
• Be responsible for reconciliation of project financials at closeout.
• Perform weekly reconciliation of labour hours, project charges, and financial transactions between BST (Colombia) and Horizon (Canada/US) to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timely correction of variances.
• Support and monitor BST-Horizon project integration, including project setup validation, mapping of project structures, charge codes, and ongoing data integrity between systems.
• Produce and distribute a weekly exception report identifyi

📌 Project Accountant (Bogotá)
🏢 WSP en Colombia
📍 Bogotá