Staff Accountant

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

• 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!

About the role

The Staff Accountant will have overall responsibility for preparing all journal entries, account schedules and general accounting for assigned portfolio.

You may be eligible for a $500 net sign on bonus to be paid out in your first paycheck

What you'll be doing

• Prepare and monitor ACH/wire transfers and bank reconciliations
• Prepare and process journal entries, including standard recurring entries accounting for bi-weekly payroll, recording cash receipts, monthly accruals, etc.
• Review trial balances to ensure accuracy and prepare supporting account schedules
• Analyze and resolve all open or reconciling items on accounts schedules in a timely manner
• Prepare monthly/quarterly/annual reports, including dashboards, variance analysis, financial statements, Owner's reports, etc
• Determine current cash positions and project future needs to ensure balances will be sufficient to pay bills
• Prepare applicable state/local tax filings as needed
• Provide other analysis/reporting as needed

Who we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree required. Accounting, Finance or Math major preferred.
• Minimum of 1 year accounting industry preferred
• Knowledge of general ledger, ACH/wire transfers and bank reconciliations, trial balance and supporting account schedules, financial statements, and other management reports
• Proficiency in MS Office products, with advanced working knowledge with Excel. Yardi experience is a plus.
• Must be detail oriented, highly organized, and analytical
• Ability to communicate clearly and coordinate with various teams and departments
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time throughout assigned projects is a possibility, but not required
• Active and valid driver's license required.

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