Project Administrator, finance early career - SRI International

SRI International has an immediate opportunity for a Project Administrator to ensure projects stay on track regarding budgets, forecasts, timelines, and contractual requirements for a technical division. This opportunity is remote within the U.S.

Our Project Administrator, under direct supervision, takes ownership and accountability for the financial management and oversight of a project throughout its lifecycle, ensuring the financial status is in accordance with GAAP, FAR and CAS and other government regulations, contractual requirements, and SRI policy, taking an active role in all aspects of the process.

You are an integral part of the project team, working collaboratively and proactively to gather insight and contributions from stakeholders such as project leadership, contracts, accounting, and finance. You implement and organize project setup and finance tools in accordance with contractual requirements to ensure an effective foundation for the life of the contract. You are a member of the finance operations team and responsible for monitoring cost and revenue, identifying potential schedule or performance risks, escalating as necessary, while providing solid finance guidance and support to project and division leadership.

• Provide financial review, support, and guidance to the Project team.
• Assist accounting to ensure project billing and accounts receivables are up to date; verify that invoices are prepared and issued per requirements; monitor and report on unbilled receivables.
• Partner with accounting and contracts to ensure efficient and compliant project setup in Costpoint, including revenue recognition, reporting and invoicing.
• Ensure project forecasts are updated and accurate, notify contracts team when % complete notification is required.
• Prepare and submit invoice back-up reports timely and accurately.
• Provide well-timed response to audit requests.
• Perform project and indirect accruals.
• Identify all issues related to margin variances and notify financial operations supervisor, project leaders and stakeholders on potential risks and large variances.
• Complete EACs for accounting and analyze profitability of all projects.
• Team with accounting to ensure alignment of project forecast with funding and billings to client.
• Monitor activities for accuracy and quality and ensure project operations conform to company policies, appropriately communicating issues through finance operations.
• May be involved in proposal pricing, vendor management and invoicing.

• Bachelor’s degree
• US Citizenship required
• Proficient in Excel and other MS Office tools
• Produce results with attention to detail and accuracy, integrity.
• Government contracting accounting experience – Costpoint and/or Deltek desired.

Intangible qualities:

• Work well in an unstructured environment, due to remote work.
• Views problems as opportunities and acts.
• Interacts with others in a consistently positive, collaborative manner.
• Shares information across functional areas, creates opportunities by sharing expertise.
• Receptive to ideas or suggestions.
• Inspires others with energy and enthusiasm.
• Arranges work schedule to meet critical deadlines.

The salary range is: $46,344-$76,760. Salary ranges will vary and are based on several factors, including geographic location, market competitiveness and equity amongst internal employees in similar roles. Positions may also qualify for SRI's Pay for Outstanding Performance program or the annual Performance Based Compensation program. SRI also has a competitive benefits package, to view details please go to https://www.sri.com/resources/benefits/.

SRI International, an over 75-year strong pioneering research institute, has a rich history supporting government and industry. Our innovations have created new industries, billions of dollars in market value and lasting benefits to society. SRI is organized around broad disciplines and capabilities, with research and development divisions and labs to groups who excel at identifying new opportunities, developing products and creating custom solutions. Our organization is driven by impact - delivering unique solutions for the world's important challenges and transforming ideas into reality for clients and partners.