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Project Finance Associate I

HNTB

Bellevue, WAFull-time$25.28–37.92/hrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$25.28–37.92/hr
Location
Bellevue, WA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Project Finance Associate maintains project-related financial data in HNTB’s project management system and supports billing compliance with client contracts. The role includes coding and allocating project costs, reviewing invoices, generating financial reports, and assisting with subcontracting and proposal processes. HNTB seeks a proactive, detail-oriented, and collaborative candidate. An associate’s degree or two years of relevant work experience in lieu of education is required.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

GAAP AccountingMicrosoft ExcelWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationAttention to DetailCollaboration

Qualifications

Associate's Degree or Two Years Relevant Work Experience

Full job description

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.

To keep pace with growing opportunities at HNTB Washington State, we are seeking a trusted Finance Associate. The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and collaborative. This role offers the opportunity for professional advancement as our large, multi-tiered business team continues to grow.

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:

  • Developing knowledge of GAAP accounting rules

  • Knowledge of MS Excel

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

What We Prefer:

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Bellevue, WA (Seattle)

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The approximate pay range for Washington is $25.28 - $37.92. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state 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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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Finance Group

ReqID: R-32246

How this job compares

Set against the 4,895 open Accounting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$25.28–37.92/hr
  • US median$25–30/hr429 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $31.60/hr, is 17% above the US median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the middle half of Accounting hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 89 open Accounting jobs in Washington and 4,895 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
Accounting postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (3,597 postings).
Education
2,432 of the 4,895 open Accounting jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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