Accountant

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

DLR Group's Accounting team has an opening for a Staff Accountant. This role could be based in the following offices:

• Omaha, NE
• Lincoln, NE

Position Summary

You'll play a vital role in our financial operations as part of the Enterprise Accounting team. In this role, you'll have a hand in key areas such as general ledger accounting, financial report creation and analysis, lease accounting, and share-in deposit management responsibilities. Join us and make your mark today!

What You Will Do

• Prepare and analyze general account reconciliations
• Perform a variety of corporate accounting functions, including fixed asset accounting, deposit management, account research, and support for compliance reporting
• Manage lease accounting activities in accordance with ASC 842, including recording monthly rent expense and right-of-use (ROU) asset and liability activity
• Enter monthly lease and building expense activity into Deltek Vantagepoint for payment processing
• Review and reconcile annual operating cost settlements received from lessors
• Maintain lease records and initiate new lease activity within the lease accounting system
• Support accounting activities related to mergers and acquisitions
• Prepare, analyze, and distribute financial reports for the accounting team, financial leadership, and other business partners
• Participate in special projects and other initiatives as assigned by the Financial Accounting leadership team
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts by helping identify opportunities to leverage AI, ERP systems, and other technologies to enhance accounting processe

Your Qualifications:

• Associate degree or bachelor’s degree in accounting is preferred
• Previous experience in a role with multiple property leases and recording entries consistent with the requirements of ASC 842 is preferred but not required
• Minimum 3 years of relevant accounting experience with AEC industry is preferred
• Ability to work cross-functionally within various operating systems

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.