Job Description

Job Title: Project Accountant I

The entry-Level Project Accountant I (PA-I) will support project management and finance teams. Under general supervision, the PA-I will assist with tracking project expenses, support client billing, and maintaining accurate financial records while gaining hands-on experience with project accounting systems and procedures.
This will be local hybrid role.
Duties/Responsibilities:
• Assist with tracking labor, materials, and subcontractor expenses against project budgets.
• Support preparation of monthly progress invoices in accordance with contract requirements.
• Verify billing documentation and ensure timely submission to clients.
• Enter financial and project-related data into accounting and project management systems.
• Maintain organized electronic and physical financial records.
• Assist project controls with comparing actual project costs to approved budgets.
• Generate weekly and monthly project financial reports for management review.
• Collect and organize documentation for internal and external audits.
• Communicate openly and frequently with internal team members and clients throughout project lifecycles to address issues quickly and efficiently.
• Help develop and maintain a culture of operational discipline, prioritizing goals and deadlines with clients and others throughout the organization.
• Meet administrative requirements and requests established by the company on the dates specified (e.g., timesheet submission, invoice preparation and submission, training, report submission and other corporate directives, etc.).
• Provide process improvement recommendations and proactively capture and share lessons learned based on best practices, industry standards, and field experiences.
• Perform other related duties assigned to support evolving workload demands.

Required Skills/Abilities:
• Strong organizational skills with a high level of accuracy in data entry and financial review.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to learn project accounting processes and accounting and project-based ERP systems.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
• 0–2 years of accounting or finance experience preferred.
Working Conditions:
The physical and work environment characteristics 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.
Physical Demands:
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk, use hands to finger, handle objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; bending or crouching; talk or hear.
• Travel Requirements: Moderate travel will be required (up to 25%) to both domestic and international job sites, program meetings, and testing locations.
• Some lifting of files, opening cabinets.
• Bending or standing as necessary.
• The employee must be able to lift/carry and/or move up to 25 pounds safely. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions and other elements prevalent at the time.
This description is not intended to be, nor should it be construed as an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to accurately reflect the activities and requirements of the position, but duties may be added, deleted, or modified, as necessary. This description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Review the Benefits associated with this position: https://www.sealaska.com/benefits/
Who is Sealaska? Established in 1972, Sealaska is the Alaska Native regional corporation for Southeast Alaska. Our 23,000 shareholders are Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people with more than 10,000 years of ancestral ties to the oceans, forests and communities of Southeast Alaska. We serve the twin goals of economic prosperity and environmental protection. Sealaska Remediation Solutions, LLC is a subsidiary of Sealaska.

We are committed to providing the best possible climate for maximum development and goal achievement for all our employees. As a subsidiary of a Native-owned company, Sealaska Remediation Solutions, LLC is proud to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, with respect for the cultural traditions in the communities where we operate.

Sealaska Remediation Solutions, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. However, preference may be extended to an enrolled member of a federally-recognized Indian Tribe.*

*“Indian Tribe” means an Indian Tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 668; 43 U.S.C. 1601) which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.