Position Title: Construction Accounting Associate

Location: Dallas, TX

Your role

This role will give you the opportunity to enhance your skillset by incorporating high level of technological skills in an entirely paperless environment and to find new or more creative and resourceful ways to accomplish the department's objectives. As a Construction Accounting Associate, you will partner with accounting, finance and construction management personnel to ensure timely invoice processing and payments to suppliers/vendors around the globe, analyze data to prepare financial documents, and contribute to ongoing datacenter construction projects in a global organization.

What you’ll do

The Construction Accounting Associate will report to the Construction Accounting Manager and will be responsible for the following (not all inclusive):

• Prepare construction loan draw schedules that are in Schedule of Values format in the context of construction invoice or billing to project owners or financial institutions
• Assemble supporting documentation including, but not limited, to invoices and lien waivers from vendors and suppliers, as related to construction loans
• Process, review and analyze invoices in a manner to ensure timely payments to suppliers
• Ensure invoices are labelled and stored in accordance with company policy
• Answer construction related invoice inquiries and audit queries
• Research and resolve invoicing discrepancies and errors
• Assist with AP aging and ensuring vendors are paid in line with agreed payment terms
• Proactively addressing invoice related matters with project managers, asset managers, and other internal project stakeholders
• Support departmental leadership with the preparation of recurring and ad-hoc cost analyses
• Support internal and external audit activities as required

What you’ll need

To be a good fit for the Construction Accounting Associate opportunity you will have:

• 3 – 5 years of progressive accounting/billing experience in the construction industry
• Strong understanding of Mechanic’s Lien process, i.e. various stages of lien waivers
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, etc.).
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• 2-year associate’s degree is desired.
• Yardi ERP experience preferred, but not required

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our Finance team

Our Finance/Accounting team works in one of the world’s fastest growing and most exciting business sectors. We use our financial expertise and commercial awareness to support and develop an international, publicly listed organization. From managing budgets to financial planning and reporting, we deliver a full range of finance and accounting services to help our business stay on track and meet our goals. We also have other specialist areas of expertise including Portfolio Management and Lease Administration.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

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We are seeking a Construction Accounting Associate for our Dallas, TX location.