Published: Nov 01, 2024 - The Accounting Project Manager Responsible for orchestrating the execution and monitoring of accounting project plans on monthly, quarterly, and annual bases to assure timely deliverables and compliance with federal standards. Functions as a pivotal liaison among various stakeholders, coordinating staff and managing contractor performance to optimize project outcomes. Engages in extensive client and team interactions, providing strategic presentations and fostering a highly motivated team environment to achieve project goals efficiently.

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1. Accounting Project Manager, Stellar Financial Solutions, Arlington, TX
Job Summary:
- Responsible for managing the complete life cycle of assigned global accounting projects, including scope development, planning, execution, risk management, and closeout
- Create project deliverables including initiation documents, risk management logs, project plans, communication plans, deployment plans, test plans, training plans, support documents and status reports
- Work directly with accounting, business and systems stakeholders to define and implement initiatives to support identified objectives and goals
- Manage project timelines, scope and risks throughout the projects, working with technical and business stakeholders to resolve issues and manage risk, escalating to leadership when necessary
- Assist Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts in gathering requirements, finalizing design and obtaining sign-off from stakeholders utilizing project management best practices and by gaining a strong understanding of the subject matter of projects.
- Work with the team to align global objectives and build buy-in across the organization
- Lead project meetings, and breakout sessions and provide executive/steering committee updates
- Leading the journey of accounting clients in the company by actively participating in the client consulting process.
- Participating in negotiations with new clients, identifying clients' needs and finding solutions.
- Coordinating the onboarding process for new clients and providing them with the necessary financial support in setting up accounting as well as other financial matters
- Participating in the development and implementation of quality control principles and systems, also performing control procedures.
Skills on Resume:
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Analytical Skills (Hard Skills)
- Client Consultation (Soft Skills)
- Quality Control (Hard Skills)
- Leadership Skills (Soft Skills)
2. Accounting Project Manager, PrimePath Advisors, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Prepare, execute, and monitor monthly, quarterly, and annual project plans to ensure deliverables are completed timely and clear roadblocks that may arise.
- Review Quarterly Financial Statement footnotes for completeness, accuracy and timely submission, in adherence to federal accounting standards.
- Serve as liaison between Agency and contractor’s staff.
- Attend weekly, quarterly, and annual client meetings, committee meetings, staff meetings, audit meetings as well as other meetings that arise to support the Government Agency.
- Organize, manage and direct contract employees in the performance of work to deliver on contract.
- Coordinate project activities with Project Team Members, and other senior management and Project Teams as appropriate
- Monitor Project Team progress, and identify and implement changes to assure the Team meets project deliverables and timelines
- Present briefings to senior management and others during, and at the conclusion of, the project.
- Create and maintain an environment, which highly motivates the team to work together.
- Coach, mentor, and inspire employees to efficiently drive short-term and long-term deliverables as well as apply appropriate judgment of when to delegate and when to deep dive
Skills on Resume:
- Project Planning and Execution (Hard Skills)
- Financial Statement Review (Hard Skills)
- Liaison and Communication (Soft Skills)
- Meeting Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Team Management (Soft Skills)
- Progress Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Presentation Skills (Soft Skills)
- Coaching and Mentoring (Soft Skills)
3. Accounting Project Manager, Nexus Accounting Services, Clearwater, FL
Job Summary:
- Provide analytical support for internal requests
- Variance analysis for identification of areas needing review
- Quarterly/Annual analytics used in the preparation of monthly adjusting entries
- Trend analysis for identification of additional GAAP adjusting entries needed
- Data validation as it relates to FCCS source data and uses
- Review of company balance sheet books for identification of areas of attention
- Interact with Company leaders to understand business processes and identify areas requiring control enhancement or change in accounting policy
- Design and refine internal controls over financial reporting across various department processes
- Assist in training across departments in the use of Oracle applications such as SmartView, FCCS, HFM
- Support process and system integration activities, as well as chart of accounts design for acquisitions and new business activities
- Assist in various initiatives to standardize existing accounting policies, procedures, and chart of accounts
Skills on Resume:
- Analytical Support (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Financial Analytics (Hard Skills)
- Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Data Validation (Hard Skills)
- Interaction and Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Internal Controls Design (Hard Skills)
- Training and Support (Soft Skills)
4. Accounting Project Manager, GreenLine Consulting, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Lead and take responsibility for designated tasks or projects, managing the business requirements through the full project/change lifecycle
- Ensure project business deliveries achieve the required standards of quality within the specified constraints of time and cost.
- Ensure Finance Change and Project Managers gain an understanding of the requirements to support project delivery, quickly identifying areas of concern and pro-actively seek ways to resolve them.
- Represent the accounting department or lead at project working groups
- Providing regular updates on progress towards deliverables to project stakeholders and escalating significant risks, issues and dependencies as they arise.
- Develop accurate and timely MI to monitor project business activities appropriate to a range of target audiences.
- Lead on development and documentation of controls and processes for changes introduced from integration activity.
- Ensuring projects are compliant with controls and reporting framework.
- Manage the specification and testing requirements arising from areas of responsibility, including review of any downstream impacts on BAU or in flight projects or processes.
- Manage and take responsibility for designated tasks.
- Support month-end financial close activities
Skills on Resume:
- Project Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Requirements Management (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
- Management Information Development (Hard Skills)
- Process Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
- Financial Close Support (Hard Skills)
5. Accounting Project Manager, Oakwood Financial Group, Reno, NV
Job Summary:
- Directs one or more teams of business consultants involved in the evaluation of system requirements and/or the development and documentation of new procedures, new process flow diagrams, and policy solutions to address highly complex business needs.
- Performs an Accounting impact assessment for assigned projects and considers implications from cost, efficiency, contractual, legal and/or regulatory standpoints.
- Determines requirements, plans projects, establishes priorities and monitors progress.
- Evaluate project status and resource utilization and implement changes to improve the team's effectiveness.
- Lead/support delivery of business change within the assigned projects, providing accounting expertise and guidance to support the overall project delivery.
- Ensure that designated Accounting project requirements are reviewed, captured, scoped, validated against IT design and implemented efficiently and effectively into BAU operations in a compliant manner.
- Manage the operational delivery of designated projects or tasks, ensuring appropriate MI is provided to internal and external stakeholders
- Lead on designing appropriate controls to mitigate the risks inherent in a Life Company reporting process.
- Drive operational readiness of systems, processes, data and staff resulting from project activity.
- Participate in preparing the Finance ledger and operational processes.
Skills on Resume:
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Impact Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Project Planning and Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Resource Utilization Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Business Change Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Compliance and Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Operational Delivery Management (Hard Skills)
- Control Design (Hard Skills)
6. Accounting Project Manager, Ascend Accounting & Solutions, Lincoln, NE
Job Summary:
- Analyzing and defining workstream requirements for the SSC Accounting/Finance including, but not limited to RTR, Payroll, Fixed Assets, and Intercompany.
- Managing the planning, execution, and delivery of project tasks between the SSC and local business teams in pre-Go live preparation of financial process work streams including the Transition Services Agreement (TSA).
- Managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in SAP and clearly communicating results with solutions, if necessary.
- Managing other accounting-related projects including acquisitions, divestitures, and legal entity structure changes.
- Managing post-Go live financial processes with global and local SSC/Business teams.
- Supporting SSC where required with continuous improvement initiatives around the month-end close process, corporate reporting requirements, and analytical reviews.
- Oversee payment and draw cycles and maintain a strict payment draw schedule
- Oversee AP team and Project Accounting Team
- Work closely with the controller and other project managers
- Complete the project's budgeted cost, unit allocations and cost recognition
Skills on Resume:
- Workstream Requirement Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- User Acceptance Testing (Hard Skills)
- Financial Process Management (Hard Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Payment Cycle Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)
7. Accounting Project Manager, Precision Finance Solutions, Concord, NH
Job Summary:
- Stay apprised of future commercial opportunities Musket is interested in engaging in
- Building accounting processes to ensure they work properly from the outset without rework.
- Work with front office traders and schedulers along with fellow back office staff members to understand existing pain points
- Build agreement on a better solution and ultimately manage the project to implement that solution with IT group.
- Audit existing processes and financial statement outcomes to see where inefficiencies and weak controls exist and work towards improving them.
- During the busy end of month, quarter and year, this role would be expected to help with close activities.
- Managing the accounting side of new or upgraded software implementation and testing.
- Reporting on project financial performance, including variance analysis on budget vs actuals vs forecasts and project profitability
- Assist with special projects and other duties by the Controller.
Skills on Resume:
- Market Opportunity Awareness (Soft Skills)
- Process Building (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration with Traders (Soft Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Process Auditing (Hard Skills)
- Month-End Close Support (Soft Skills)
- Software Implementation Management (Hard Skills)
- Financial Performance Reporting (Hard Skills)
8. Accounting Project Manager, Keystone Project Management, Wilmington, DE
Job Summary:
- Ensuring contractual agreement compliance
- Ensuring subcontracts and commitments are correctly recorded and tracked
- Establishing and maintaining invoicing templates and schedules, cost codes and contract items, rate tables and customer details
- Own the project close-out process by ensuring all financial activities and requirements are carried out promptly
- Work with the Project Administration team to improve project administration processes and effectiveness
- Support and participate in annual external audits and resolution activities
- Reviewing, tracking and maintaining all project transaction documents for accuracy and completeness
- Ensuring billings do not exceed approved budget limits and all change orders are recorded and tracked
- Reviewing draft invoices for accuracy
- Monitor AR reports and assist with collections
Skills on Resume:
- Contract Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Subcontract Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Invoicing Management (Hard Skills)
- Project Close-Out (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Audit Support (Soft Skills)
- Transaction Document Review (Hard Skills)
- Accounts Receivable Monitoring (Hard Skills)
9. Accounting Project Manager, BlueSky Financial Partners, Lansing, MI
Job Summary:
- Approve invoice payments and holdback releases on a timely basis by contract terms to maintain vendor relations while managing project cash flow
- Support the Project Team by providing monthly cost and profitability reporting, including monthly accrual entry
- Gathering cash flow projections, cost projections, and project status updates from the Project Team
- Challenging the financial health of projects during regular reviews
- Establishes accounting policies and procedures to support new product and compliance roll-outs.
- Develops training and communication materials and delivers training to impacted business units.
- Identifies project delivery risks and develops/coordinates execution of contingency plans.
- Contributes to ongoing communication with accounting operations on project status, business impacts and risks, and approaches to address business needs.
- Incumbent will interface with multiple areas of the IT, Service Operations, and Finance communities.
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds clearly and articulately.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders (Project Teams, vendors, and colleagues) to facilitate accurate and timely project accounting.
Skills on Resume:
- Invoice Approval (Hard Skills)
- Cost and Profitability Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Cash Flow Projection (Hard Skills)
- Financial Health Review (Hard Skills)
- Policy Development (Hard Skills)
- Training Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Risk Management (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
10. Accounting Project Manager, Apex Accounting Consulting, Spokane, WA
Job Summary:
- Compiles and analyzes historical data to identify improvement opportunities.
- Develops, produces, gathers and improves executive and line of business scorecards.
- Defines and consults on measurement strategies, tools, scorecards and surveys, which may include benchmarking and industry comparative analysis.
- Responsibility for people management or may be an individual contributor working on significant processes utilizing independent judgment
- Discretion within a large business organization or across various functional areas.
- Actions have a significant impact on key Department objectives.
- Represent CIGNA Healthcare Accounting on large divisional projects.
- Provides support to the development of accounting processes, systems requirements\changes
- Accounting policy changes to support new products and other CHC strategic initiatives.
- Serves as subject matter expert for accounting
Skills on Resume:
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Scorecard Development (Hard Skills)
- Measurement Strategy Consultation (Hard Skills)
- People Management (Soft Skills)
- Discretionary Decision-Making (Soft Skills)
- Project Representation (Soft Skills)
- Process Development Support (Hard Skills)
- Subject Matter Expertise (Hard Skills)
11. Accounting Project Manager, ClearWave Financial Solutions, Salem, OR
Job Summary:
- Provides consultative support to IT management
- Staff on all phases of the project development cycle.
- Determines impact of project on accounting business processes and systems.
- Provides business requirements and process flow diagrams for process, system, and organizational changes.
- Supports design phases, ensuring solutions meet business needs.
- Provides input to testing strategies and validation that test results meet requirements.
- Participates in post-installation production support activities.
- Recommends accounting treatment for new products, with focus on GAAP, and Statutory and Health and Human Services (Minimum Loss Ratio) regulatory reporting.
- Provides consultative support during project requirement and design phases on operational and financial controls.
- Responsible for planning and executing implementation tasks.
Skills on Resume:
- Consultative Support (Soft Skills)
- Impact Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Business Requirements Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Design Phase Support (Soft Skills)
- Testing Strategy Input (Hard Skills)
- Post-Installation Support (Soft Skills)
- Accounting Treatment Recommendation (Hard Skills)
- Implementation Planning (Hard Skills)
12. Accounting Project Manager, Pinnacle Finance Advisors, Boulder, CO
Job Summary:
- Supporting management with analysis and reports of company financial drivers
- Creating management reports, defining reporting processes, preparing budgets, and making monthly, quarterly and yearly reports
- Coordinating and/or leading closing and reporting (legal/management)
- Presenting complex financial situations, analysis
- Results in a clear way to the client and to different external parties
- Set up business models
- Identifying opportunities, gaps or possible cost savings at the client
- Manage difficult and complex situations at the client
- Coaching and guiding a small group of people
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Report Creation (Hard Skills)
- Closing Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Financial Presentation (Soft Skills)
- Business Model Development (Hard Skills)
- Opportunity Identification (Soft Skills)
- Complex Situation Management (Soft Skills)
- Coaching and Guidance (Soft Skills)