What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Balfour Beatty Communities?
Who We Are
Balfour Beatty Investments is a global infrastructure investor operating in the UK, US, and Canada. We provide the investment capability to deliver complex infrastructure projects. Over the past 15 years, Balfour Beatty Investments (formerly known as Balfour Beatty Capital) has established itself as one of the largest investors in the PPP industry, building a portfolio of more than 60 projects worldwide, predominantly in the UK and US.
Balfour Beatty Investments is proud to offer challenging and rewarding work in a variety of functional areas. As a company, we operate with safety and sustainability as our primary focus. Equally integral components of our culture are our values—Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence, Respect—and our code of conduct. Living up to these commitments requires the fresh ideas, insights and talents of employees as diverse as the audiences we interact with every day.
The success of our company is built on the efforts of our employees. We are committed to offering our employees a path to professional success through development, training and mentoring opportunities that cover a wide variety of skills and functional areas.
At Balfour Beatty Investments, our employees are our greatest asset and their well-being means a healthier, more productive workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes a variety of health care options, retirement benefits and other flexible benefits.
Our Benefits
The Staff Accountant will have overall responsibility for preparing all journal entries, account schedules and general accounting for assigned portfolio.
What You'll Be Doing
Balfour Beatty Investments is a global infrastructure investor operating in the UK, US, and Canada. We provide the investment capability to deliver complex infrastructure projects. Over the past 15 years, Balfour Beatty Investments (formerly known as Balfour Beatty Capital) has established itself as one of the largest investors in the PPP industry, building a portfolio of more than 60 projects worldwide, predominantly in the UK and US.
Balfour Beatty Investments is proud to offer challenging and rewarding work in a variety of functional areas. As a company, we operate with safety and sustainability as our primary focus. Equally integral components of our culture are our values—Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence, Respect—and our code of conduct. Living up to these commitments requires the fresh ideas, insights and talents of employees as diverse as the audiences we interact with every day.
The success of our company is built on the efforts of our employees. We are committed to offering our employees a path to professional success through development, training and mentoring opportunities that cover a wide variety of skills and functional areas.
At Balfour Beatty Investments, our employees are our greatest asset and their well-being means a healthier, more productive workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes a variety of health care options, retirement benefits and other flexible benefits.
Our Benefits
- Discretionary bonuses
- Medical and Dental Insurance 1st of the month following employment
- Health, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts
- Company paid life insurance
- 401K plan with employer matching
- Robust PTO to include, sick, floating holidays, vacation, and personal days
- 2 Volunteer Days per year
- Company paid short-term and long- term disability, parental leave.
- And more!
The Staff Accountant will have overall responsibility for preparing all journal entries, account schedules and general accounting for assigned portfolio.
What You'll Be Doing
- Entering Monthly Journal Entries.
- Review of Financial Statements after entries are posted to ensure accuracy. This includes standard reoccurring entries, accounting for payroll bi-weekly, recording cash receipts, monthly accruals, etc.
- Analyze and forecast cash positions to send to our parent company. This includes documentation of actual transactions and analysis of future projections. Dashboard are created to benchmark this against various metrics.
- Preparation of monthly trial balance account reconciliation schedules.
- Preparation of various monthly tax filings.
- Monitoring project bid costs and making necessary accruals and preparing reports for various bid managers.
- Schedules used to analyze monthly income results for various business unit leaders.
- Assistance with various ad hoc schedules as requested.
- Bachelors degree in accounting, business, or finance field and at least 1 year experience in a dedicated accounting environment.
- Knowledge of general ledger, bank and account reconciliations, trial balance and financial statement preparation.
- Advanced Excel skills and knowledge of Yardi is a plus.
- Must be detail oriented, highly organized and analytical