Salary
💰 $70,200 - $99,800 per year
About the role
- Supports construction accounting activities and oversight for the regional project management team.\n
- Creates, monitors, and edits work orders in SAP.\n
- Creates and maintains accurate technical master data.\n
- Interprets construction project scopes to ensure compliance with company accounting policies, and line extension tariffs and schedules.\n
- Generates customer billing by creating accurate and timely non-consumption contract accounts, sales contracts and other sales documents in SAP.\n
- Order corrections, billing, and quality assurance: Audits facility agreements for pricing and customer data accuracy.\n
- Supports the resolution of issues related to accounting, SOX controls, and tariff interpretation.\n
- Works with service providers to resolve blocked billing issues.\n
- Performs accounting functions such as journal entries.\n
- Performs monthly problem order review and order clean-up functions.\n
- Researches and resolves data and accounting problems.\n
- Interprets and applies appropriate business accounting methods to construction projects and operations.\n
- Identifies, analyzes, and develops solutions related to data or process errors and issues as it relates to finance, accounting, and project work.\n
- Ensures the data integrity of work orders, notifications, technical master data, non-consumption billing, and other PSE data and records.\n
- Responds to requests received from project managers, engineers, service providers, and other departments in a timely manner.\n
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of the business, and represents the department in company initiatives, on an as-needed basis.\n
- Conveys the elements of construction and operations to finance when discussing accounting and financial matters.\n
- Performs ad hoc audits and data analyses, ensuring correct accounting and billing processes in accordance with company policies, property accounting, and budgets.\n
- Represents the department with regards to change management work as it relates to other PSE departments including property accounting.\n
- Participates in special projects and research.\n
- Participates in system and process improvement meetings with peer and partner departments.\n
- Communicates with peers, customers, and management on financial and accounting matters.\n
- Performs internal department audits for compliance.\n
- Performs accounting functions, such as complex journal entries.\n
- Participates in emergency response efforts as needed.\n
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Associate's degree in accounting, business, construction management, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience.\n
- Four (4) years of experience in construction services or related field.\n
- Demonstrated knowledge of utility operations, customer construction, and accounting.\n
- Ability to work independently.\n
- Experience contributing to successful process improvements to enhance customer’s project cycle time.\n
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to present information in a professional manner and persuade without authority.\n
- Experience developing ad hoc reporting from multiple hubs with minimal assistance.\n
- Demonstrated ability to exercise judgment in analyzing and identifying solutions to complex issues that arise.\n
- Detail-oriented.\n
- Ability to balance and prioritize multiple responsibilities to meet plans and goals.\n
- Ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast paced environment.\n
- Experience with MS Office Suite including Excel and Microsoft Word.