Project Accountant

Your Role

We are looking for a project accountant to partner closely with design project teams to ensure financial health. The candidate should be a junior to intermediate level finance professional with both solid technical skills and commercial sense.  Prior experiences in service industry (especially consulting or architecture) are preferred but not mandatory.

What You Will Do

Project Accounting

• Marketing project codes and real project codes management.  Responsible for opening, managing and closing of project codes as per company policy.

• Responsible for project status update in Vision system.

• Working closely with Studio Directors and Project Managers to ensure project financial health, including timely and accurate invoicing, project labor costs/expenses review and control, regular project financial review, bill-with/cross charge review and management.

• Assisting and driving on AR collections.  Review AR with DMs/SDs on a regular basis. Talk

• Providing training or regular refreshment to PMs on basic financial management skills and company tools (e.g. tableau, Genysis reporting).

• Consulting costs review and reconciliation.

Financial analysis

• Supporting Regional Accounting Manager on regular office financial reports preparation and analysis.  Helping to identify key issues and prepare deep dive analysis as appropriate.

• To help on ad-hoc analysis to FW, including but not limiting to practice area report, client relationship report, etc.

• Supporting on quarterly forecast and annual budget.

Accounts payable

• Reviewing and validating payment requests on project costs.  Training and communicating with requestors on invalid/improper requests.

• Support the launch of Coupa project, responsible for communication with FW and training to end users.

• Monthly expense report analysis 

Your Qualifications

• Strong commercial sense, flexible, proactive working attitude

• At least 5 years of related working experience, prefer similar industry and China experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• Fluent English capability

• Experience with Deltek Vision software or similar accounting programs highly appreciated

• Organized, detail oriented, good excel skills

• Ability to multi-tasks and to meet the deadlines

• Excellent communication skills in both Chinese and English is required

• Good team player

Life at Gensler

At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests. We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical insurance, social insurance, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer profit sharing, and twice annual bonus opportunities.