Job Description:

Contract Administrator

Company Overview: Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Contract Administrator SE with success and preparing, reviewing, and administering job records, generating budgets, preparing progress payment requisitions, and all associated functions necessary to establish accurate accounting for construction jobs.

Position Summary: The successful candidate shall have a minimum of Three plus years of related finance or construction experience

Responsibilities:

• Prepare normal monthly or bi-weekly progress requisitions for accounts receivable billing and subcontractor payment quantity splits and enter all requisitions into the accounting system

• Compare work quantities to date and retainage with the owner’s for accuracy

• Input change orders and back charges onto the payment requisition

• Review and log all payments for vendors and subcontractors       

• Creation and maintenance of budgets

• Set up/reconcile customers and jobs in the system

• File job owner requisition sheets from the various authorities

• Maintain subcontractor files and payment requisitions

• Prepare a monthly backlog report for the bonding company

• Prepare partial, and final lien releases, and all required notices related to jobs and subcontractors

• Knowledge and experience of EEO requirements for the State of Florida

• Prepare daily cash journals for job-related receivables and payables

• Knowledge of contract closeout processes with FDOT

• Knowledge of FL Statues 713 & 255

• Secure all necessary approvals and ensure that standard company procedures are followed

Qualifications:

•       Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivale

•     Strong computer skills including MS Office/ Excel

•     Construction software experience is preferable

Necessary Attributes:

·       Must possess the ability to adapt to different personalities and management styles

• Team Player with Interpersonal Skills
•  Excellent verbal, organizational, and written communication skills
•   Dedicated and hard-working

Please see HR for information on the physical demands and work environment of this job.

Sunshine Enterprise USA is an “Equal Opportunity Employer—Minorities, Females, Veterans and Disabled Persons”