Project Cost Accountant

Title: Project Cost Accountant

Summary: 

As a Project Cost Accountant, you will play a crucial role in the financial management of assigned projects. Your responsibilities will include monitoring, analyzing, preparing complex Excel reports and reporting on project costs to ensure that they align with budgetary constraints and organizational goals. You will collaborate with project managers and other stakeholders to provide financial insights, identify cost-saving opportunities, and contribute to the overall success of projects. Your attention to detail, financial expertise, and analytical skills will be essential in maintaining accurate project cost records and supporting the organization's financial health. Additionally, and individual must have the ability to work in a team oriented fast-paced environment and flexibility to work overtime during peak periods

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Tracks information on upgrade projects and report that information to management
• Prepare assets, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
• Documents financial transactions by entering account information.
• Recommend financial actions by analyzing accounting options.
• Summarize current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports.
• Substantiates financial transactions by auditing documents.
• Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
• Guides accounting clerical staff by coordinating activities and answering questions.
• Reconcile financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
• Secures financial information by completing data base backups.
• Maintain financial security by following internal controls.
• Prepare payments by verifying documentation, and requesting disbursements.
• Answer accounting procedure questions by researching and interpreting accounting policy and regulations.
• Comply with federal, state, and local financial legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
• Prepare special financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.
• Maintain customer confidence and protects operations by keeping financial information confidential.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. 
  
• Other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience:

• Proven experience as a Cost Accountant or similar role preferred. 
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field 
• Professional certification (e.g., CPA) is a plus
  
• Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant accounting work experience.
• Advanced understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

• Must be highly detail oriented and organized.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are a must.
• Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily direction to accomplish objectives.
• Proficiency with email and Microsoft Office application; especially Excel (advanced functionality).
• Ability to operate DBM utilizing SQL and learning advanced functionality for Management Report Writer Software.

Computer Skills:

• Microsoft Dynamics GP or other large Enterprise Resource Planning experience required. 
• Proficient use of MS Office applications
• Ability to effectively navigate financial software, general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, order processing, fixed assets. 

Physical Demands:

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear.

• regularly required to talk and hear
• frequently required to sit, stand, bend at the knees and waist, and walk
• required to use hands to type, handle objects and paperwork
• required to reach and hold on to items at chest level or reach above the shoulder
• required to use close vision and be able to focus 

Benefits: 

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and long-term disability
• A 401k plan with an employer match
• Paid time off/holidays to all full-time employees
  

At Vexus Fiber, we don’t just bury lines, we plant roots which is why we want you to Discover More with a rewarding career in technology with a company committed to growing right in the areas it serves. We value our employees because they are essential in our efforts to provide top quality fiber internet and because they help us make our communities stronger. Being a part of the Vexus family offers you the opportunity to enjoy accomplishment and success in a career with true growth potential and with a company that believes in providing the training and support you need to succeed.

*Vexus Fiber is an Equal Opportunity Employer