Project Finance Associate I

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
This opportunity entails being responsible for maintaining project-related financial data in HNTB's project management system, ensuring alignment with current client contracts, including change orders, subconsultant agreements, and approved unauthorized work. The Project Finance Associate supports the project finance team to ensure billing compliance with contractual documents. Responsibilities include coding project costs, such as subconsultant expenses, expense report receipts, and vendor invoices, with appropriate project accounting codes in accordance with standard procedures and contractual requirements to ensure proper entry into HNTB's project management system.

What You’ll Do:

• Accurately updates the project management system by translating client and project workplan data based on contract and change order review.
• Facilitates the ability to access and charge to project tasks and phases in the project management system.
• Ensures project costs are properly coded and allocated by maintaining awareness of project status and adapting financial data as needed due to project changes.
• Manages cost transfers to and from projects/tasks.
• Supports the project finance team in reviewing and approving project invoices, updating invoice requirements from contractual documents, verifying billed costs, and ensuring compliance with reporting requirements, including insurance certificates and adherence to client systems and formats.
• Generates routine internal project financial performance reports for project and office teams.
• Reviews vendor/subconsultant invoices for accuracy and contractual compliance, including DBE and insurance certificate requirements.
• Obtains necessary approvals and tracks internal workflow status for timely outcomes.
• Supports the project team in maintaining client and subconsultant relationships and communicates receivables updates as directed by the finance team.
• Assists in subcontracting processes throughout the project lifecycle.
• Supports the proposal process, including gross margin analysis, cost proposal development, alignment with the project management system, and client proposal/estimate formats.
• Performs other assigned duties.

What You’ll Need:

• Associate’s degree, or
• In lieu of education, 2 years of relevant work experience

What You'll Bring:

• A desire to learn and grow with an industry leader​

• Knowledge of accounting/financial principles and practices

• Advanced organizational skills

• Intermediate data analysis skills, able to accurately analyze and interpret data to draw conclusions using tools such as Excel, enterprise reporting systems, and project management systems

• Ability to multitask

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Chicago, IL

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The approximate pay range for Illinois is $22.61 - $33.91. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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