project coordinator Atlanta, GA
Job description
CAS Project Coordinator
Cherry Bekaert is seeking a Coordinator to join its Digital Advisory Client Accounting Services (CAS) practice. This role will allow you to build on existing project management experience by managing multiple CAS projects from beginning to end for outsourced accounting.
Our shared values, including uncompromising integrity, a passion for excellence and mutual respect have helped us get here. If these values align with yours, we’d like to hear from you.
What you'll bring to Cherry Bekaert:
The Project Coordinator will aid in the planning, initiating, monitoring and execution of various CAS projects including, but not limited to: recurring client accounting services, special projects, system implementations, onboarding, and internal projects.
What you'll work on:
- Develop and maintain project performance database that tracks overall progress and achievement of milestones
- Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures.
- Organizing, attending, and participating in stakeholder meetings.
- Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
- Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
- Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.
- Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members.
- Maintain and manage detailed project plans, action items, and major milestone timelines for all assigned projects
- Liaison between the company, technical resources, and the client to ensure a successful and timely accounting monthly close schedules
- Lead accounting project status meetings and compile project status reports to drive deliverables to schedule and develop resolutions to mitigate risks.
- Provide regular updates to Leadership and teammates, calling out risks, critical decision points and need to prioritize.
- Establish strong relationships with all project stakeholders including team members, clients, and leadership.
- Assist leadership to ensure that Client jobs & projects are budgeted correctly, accurately scheduled, and delivered promptly by the CAS team members.
Required Education And/or Experience:
- A Bachelor's Degree in Business or other business-related degree.
- Ability to communicate with a variety of personality types, both verbally and in writing. Experience interfacing with all levels and across all departments within the organization.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment and adapting to change.
- Proficiency in the MS Office Suite. Experience with Smartsheet, Sage Intacct, and Bill.com is a bonus.
What you can expect from us:
- Our shared values that foster inclusion and belonging including uncompromising integrity, collaboration, trust, and mutual respect
- The opportunity to innovate and do work that motivates and engages you
- A collaborative environment focused on enabling you to further your career growth and continuous professional development
- Competitive compensation and a total rewards package that focuses on all aspects of your wellbeing
- Flexibility to do impactful work and the time to enjoy your life outside of work
- Opportunities to connect and learn from professionals from different backgrounds and with different cultures
About Cherry Bekaert
Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. “Cherry Bekaert” is the brand name under which Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC, independently owned entities, provide professional services in an alternative practice structure in accordance with applicable professional standards. Cherry Bekaert LLP is a licensed CPA firm that provides attest services, and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities provide business advisory and non-attest services spanning the areas of transaction advisory, risk and accounting advisory, digital solutions, cybersecurity, tax, benefits consulting, and wealth management. For more details, visit cbh.com/disclosure.
Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm. The salary range for this position is $75,000 to $139,200. In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection.
Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States. Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position.
Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC are members of Allinial Global, an accountancy and business advisory global association. Visit us at cbh.com/careers and follow us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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