Job Description

LOCATION: Fairbanks, AK

SCHEDULE: Monday - Friday

HOURS: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

TYPE OF POSITION: Full-Time 

JOB SUMMARY: Maintain accurate, complete accounting records relating to development and internal/external construction activities. Ensure the revenue and costs associated with construction and development activities are properly recorded, and relevant information is provided to project and executive management to keep them informed and to support the decisions. Ensure compliance with GAAP/SEC guidelines and established company policies and procedures. This position requires the ability to coordinate accounting functions with vice president, project managers and Superintendents who oversee and perform construction work. This position requires strong analytical skills and the ability to recognize areas of accounting risk and direct resources to understand and remediate those risks.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Implement standards on which to measure progress and accountability of workflow. Work with other team leaders to identify necessary process improvements. Determine innovative solutions and develop best practices to routine processes to gain efficiencies in workflow.
• Handle accounting transactions leading up to month end close and preparation of financial statements. Transactions include processing regular and adjusting journal entries, maintaining the general ledger and processing appropriate bank reconciliations.
• Prepare monthly financial statements and other required ad hoc reporting for management.
• Assist in annual budget review and budget management process.
• Coordinate and direct accounting/reporting process to meet established internal and external deadlines for development & construction activities.
• Review and approve all journal entries, GAAP statements, consolidated balance sheets and income statements, and operating statements (detailed and summary formats).
• Oversee general ledger maintenance review of journal entries, cash receipts/disbursements, and inspection of general ledgers for accuracy.
• Lead the design and implementation of enhanced internal reporting process to provide executives complete information to better manage the Company with financial analysis relative to budgets, forecasts and executive expectations. Provide information to management team to improve quality of future budgets and forecasts.
• Administer job costing system for set up of new projects/tasks; perform/review periodic budget to actual reporting, and prepare/review quarterly project cash flows.
• Direct the contracts management function to ensure all project data is captured and information is provided for job management.
• Guide the team in the design and maintenance of efficient processes and procedures related to tracking, reporting and billing (where applicable) construction related revenues and expenditures.
• Be a mentor and leader, developing teamwork and technical and professional competency with construction management team. Provide staff development opportunities to enhance skills and provide career growth, including training/education and performance improvement recommendations as required.

COMPETENCIES:

• Technical – Demonstrates knowledge in General construction, Mechanical, Pipeline and Civil work. Be familiar with natural gas and oil industry. Must be familiar with unit rates, material and equipment pricing, labor pricing and other estimate components and techniques.
• Confidentiality - Demonstrates knowledge of appropriate procedures for handling sensitive and confidential information
• Customer Service – Develop and maintain close working relationships with client’s technical authorities, project supervision and all other personnel and departments associated with DES projects. Demonstrates knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
• Analytical – Synthesizes complex or diverse information.
• Problem Solving –Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner and gathers, analyzes and interprets both financial and general business information skillfully.
• Oral and Written Communication – Well-balanced interpersonal skills. Listens carefully and asks questions to understand views, concerns, and comments of others.
• Delegation – Delegates work assignments, gives authority to work independently, sets expectations and monitors delegated activities.
• Management and Leadership Skills – Includes staff in planning, decision-making, facilitating and process improvement; makes self available to staff; provides regular performance feedback; and provides strategic feedback as needed to department leadership.
• Quality Management – Ability to work in a team environment, take directions from supervisor(s), high degree of attention to details, follow work rules, and adhere to established work schedules. Looks for ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
• Judgment – Displays willingness to make decisions, exhibits sound and accurate judgment and makes timely decisions.
• Planning/Organizing – Prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans; has ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Safety and Security – Must understand the risks of pipeline construction and rehabilitation and continually take proactive measures to mitigate all safety and environmental hazards. Must understand the importance of safety and quality workmanship and continually take proactive measures to ensure all construction activities meet or exceed corporate and client criteria and standards. Ability to understand and interpret safety and environmental programs, quality control and quality assurance plans and all other engineering and technical data. Actively promotes and personally observes safety and security procedures and uses equipment and materials properly.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• This job may have supervisory responsibilities not defined within this job description.

QUALIFICATIONS:
To successfully perform this job, this position must perform all duties and responsibilities accurately and satisfactorily while complying with specific deadlines. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to satisfactorily perform this job.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree required in Accounting and CPA certification.
• 5-10 years or more experience in construction related accounting position encompassing all stages of accounting process (journal entries through final reports).
• Must have 5+ years of supervisory experience.
• Willingness to work overtime, as needed.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret project schedules, common scientific and technical journals, general business periodicals, professional journals, technical requirements and legal documents, and government regulations.
• Ability to write highly complex reports and business correspondence and understand such reports and correspondence when received from other sources.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to effectively communicate at all project levels, from craft employees to project and corporate management and clients.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Must have intermediate to advanced proficiency level in Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office Suite general products.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, permutations and quadratic equations.
• Ability to apply mathematical operation to such tasks and frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

PREFERENCE STATEMENT: Preference will be given to Doyon shareholders and shareholders of other Alaska Native Corporations in accordance with Title 43 U.S. Code 1626(g) and Title 42 U.S. Code 2003-2(i).

WORKING ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described in this job description are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this job. The noise level in an office is usually quiet but in the field or at the job site is usually noisy.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of this job. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25+ pounds. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. [Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions].

REASONABLE ACCOMODATION: It is Doyon’s business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.

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