Associate, Construction Accountant

Your role

This role will give you the opportunity to enhance your skill set by incorporating high level of technological skills in an entirely paperless environment and be given the opportunity to find new or more creative and resourceful ways to accomplish the department's objectives. As a Construction Accountant, you will partner with construction management personnel to ensure the financial success of projects around the globe, apply principles of accounting to record and analyze financial information and prepare financial reports, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of a global organization.  

What you’ll do

The Associate, Construction Accounting will report into the Sr. Manager, Construction Accounting and will be responsible for:

• Project financial closeouts: collaborate with suppliers and project managers to prepare project cost reconciliations, closeout open commitments, and issue final account reports.
  • Lead execution of final account and cost reconciliations, partnering with project managers to ensure accurate and timely close.
  • Communicate with vendors to collect final invoices and deductive/savings change orders; coordinate with AP teams to ensure timely processing.
  • Reconcile committed to actual costs and close open commitments in project accounting module.
• General Project Accounting Tasks:
  • Assisting in the implementation, documenting, and ongoing maintenance of the company’s internal controls and systems, including SOX-404. Prepare and gather materials related to construction and cost accounting matters for internal and external auditors. 
  • Partnering with the Design, Engineering & Construction group to ensure the financial success of the company’s development projects using the Yardi Job Cost module, including setting up, contracts and change orders.
  • Proactively addressing cost and operational related matters with project managers, asset managers, and other internal project stakeholders on a daily basis.

What you'll need

To be a good fit for the Construction/Fixed Asset Accountant opportunity you will have:

• Knowledge of construction cost accounting and general accounting principles. Ability to analyze and interpret accounting data and perform quantitative analyses.
• Fundamental understanding of generally accepted accounting principles.
• Experience processing adjusting journal entries, processing reclassification journals, preparing account reconciliations, and any other related tasks. 
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Yardi experience beneficial but not required

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.