Project Accounting Specialist
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Job Description
Build Your Career at Milestone Contractors!
The Project Accounting Specialist provides administrative and accounting support on construction projects
Essential Functions
- Assists in day to day project accounting operations
- Reviews field reporting for reasonableness and accuracy as compared to estimate, submitted documentation and customer records
- Researches and codes receiving tickets
- Codes invoices from vendors
- Enters data for weekly cost/variance report
- Scans and files documentation into the electronic and/or physical job file
- Duties may encompass some or all duties of a project control associate as staffing, workload and experience dictates
- Communicates with internal/external customers
- Answers inquiries professionally via phone, email or in-person
- Visits job sites as needed to expand knowledge base
- Develops effective relationships internally with field, operations and estimating personnel and externally with customers, subcontractors and suppliers
- Promotes and maintains safe work environment
- Exhibits safe work behaviors
- Wears all prescribed PPE
- Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, including but not limited to continuously growing in alignment with the Company’s core values, competencies, and skills.
- Required High School or Equivalent is required
Experience Qualifications
- Preferred 1+ years experience in heavy highway construction industry preferred
- Preferred 1+ years experience with accounting software (i.e. Vista, QuickBooks, Timberline) preferred
Skills and Abilities
- Accountability
- Communication
- Decision Making/Decision Quality
- Ethics/Integrity
- Instills trust
- Organization
- Self-motivation
- Teamwork Orientation
- Ability to work unassisted in current version of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Outlook) or equivalent
Licenses and Certifications
- Valid Drivers License is required Required
Working Conditions/Physical Demands
- Clerical, indoor office environment that includes standard office equipment such as computers, photocopiers, phones, filing cabinets, fax machines, cubicles
- Some exposure to construction job sites, including inclement weather, noise, moving traffic
- Sits at a desk 6 - 8 hours a day
- Looks at a computer screen 6 - 8 hours a day
- Performs data entry, alpha and 10-key numeric, on a keyboard
- Uses copier to copy/fax/scan documents
- Files documents
- Travel to field offices, job sites and other area offices is occasionally expected
About Milestone Contractors
Milestone Contractors is a privately held, family-owned business headquartered in Indianapolis. Milestone Contractors is a fully integrated heavy construction company specializing in highway, bridge, asphalt and concrete paving and site development. Over its 30-year history, Milestone has built a reputation for prioritizing safety, quality, people and innovation. Milestone Contractors is a part of The Heritage Group's family of companies. Learn more at https://www.milestonelp.com/
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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