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As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Howard S Wright Construction, a Balfour Beatty Company, is seeking a Staff Accountant/Admin Manager in Portland, Oregon. This role reports the organization's financial status by assisting in the preparation and analysis of financial plans, forecasts, and reports. Manages key administrative processes and provides oversight for administrative and office facility functions. May supervise other administrative employees. Provides direct accounting support to internal and external customers.

• Provide finance support to the division and controllers, including reviewing project setups and owner contracts, budget uploads, new project tracking and recording of GL/Corp allocations, processing invoices, and researching and depositing refund checks.
• Provide administrative support to the division president, including reviewing subcontractor documents and expense reports.
• Manage and support the project accountant team.
• Prepare a number of regular reports, including safety hours tracking and reporting, small business tracking, cash forecast, and balance sheet reconciliation.
• Assist with the processing and distribution of weekly craft paychecks by verifying project accountant time entry, printing and mailing weekly live checks, maintaining check log, and printing off-cycle checks.
• Track, combine, and enter monthly accruals.
• Review, correct, and process journal entries.
• Provide maintenance and administrator support for Rhumbix and Procore applications.
• Provide accurate and timely reporting of the reconciliation of actual performance versus forecast/budget to the management team.
• Assist in determining and improving financial status by comparing and analyzing plans and forecasts with actual results.
• Assist in identifying risks and opportunities to budgets/plans.
• Assist with the month-, quarter- and year-end closings and distribution of financial statements.
• Provide a wide variety of customer service to management, including assembling and summarizing data and preparing reports.
• Understand and ensure compliance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Understand and set priorities so that daily, weekly, and monthly financial deadlines are met.
• Perform special projects and analysis as directed by Financial Services management.
• Manage key administrative processes and functions.
• Handle day-to-day issues in the local office environment, troubleshoots any issues that arise and responds to support requests.
• Maintain building leases and partnership contracts; renew as needed.
• Manage space planning matters in division regional offices.
• Manage phone systems and building maintenance activity to ensure proper contractual/service execution.
• May communicate Emergency/Disaster Information to all staff in advance and during evacuation process.
• Work with office assistant to track building and parking garage access.
• Assist in coordinating various meetings and events including travel arrangements, meeting space and attendee communications.
• May supervise other administrative employees and conduct their regular performance appraisals, including front desk reception and office assistant.
• Coordinate backup support for front desk reception and maintenance of central accounting email folders.
• May schedule receptionist areas for coverage and rotation cycle when necessary.
• Provide coaching and training for administrative and project accounting staff.

• May perform various administrative tasks, including handling incoming/outgoing mail and overnight mail, establishing new supplier accounts, purchasing office supplies, preparing payroll, and answering telephones.
• Participate in company training programs and commit to self-development.

• Maintain confidential information related to payroll, internal and external client relationships.

• Build effective relationships with internal and external customers that reflect and support company core values and meet or exceed customers' expectations.
• Strive to continually seek feedback and improve services/tools/department deliverables to internal customers.

• Promote our culture and values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe, and Sustainable.
• Serve as a role model and promote professional behavior.
• Participate in and support company training programs and commits to self-development.
• Participate in personal career development through on-the-job training, participate in software training and seminars as applicable for this position.

Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned.

• The majority of work is completed in an office setting.
• Periodic travel to jobsites is required.

• Associate or bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field preferred with 4 to 7 years of experience; or related equivalent work experience. Construction industry experience is a plus.
• Experience in U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is required.
• Demonstrates solid presentation skills and verbal/written skills.

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint.

• Ability to interface and work across various software, including JD Edwards (Accounting System), Procore (Project Management Software) and others as needed.
• Able to organize people, tools, equipment, and other resources and orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish desired results.
• Demonstrates leadership skills; willing and able to face challenges with composure, produce results, and confront and provide direction to others.
• Communicates well and creates effective customer-focused relationships with all organization levels.
• Able to negotiate skillfully in tough situations with internal and external customers and actively listen to others and their opinions.
• Makes good decisions based on analysis, experience and judgment and can be counted on to meet or exceed goals successfully.
• Makes decisions under tight deadlines with composure, occasionally with incomplete information.
• Acts in a manner of integrity that shows support for the company, its values, and employees, while maintaining constant focus on meeting/exceeding customer requirements and expectations.
• Able to anticipate executive management's needs.
• Experience managing space planning and building maintenance matters.

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm, we are challenging the construction industry's assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation's largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.