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Bonaventure Construction has an exciting job opening for an Accountant/Administrative Assistant.

Call 503-566-5715 for more information.

Are you an organized and motivated Accountant or Administrative Assistant looking for a full-time position with a successful progressive company and an exciting team?  If so, we want to hear from you!

Our Home Office in Salem, Oregon is recruiting for an experienced, results-driven Accountant/Administrative Assistant to additionally support our Director of Construction and Project Managers. An excellent candidate is one with strong excel and accounting skills and a consistent standard of excellence. You should be self-motivated and pride yourself in regularly meeting or beating deadlines. Exemplary administrative, organization, and problem solving skills are necessary, as well as the ability to critically review reports and other documents.

Top reasons to work at Bonaventure:

• Excellent team environment
• Competitive Salary
• Generous 401k Program
• Health Benefits - Medical and dental coverage.
• Flexible Spending Account – For Healthcare and Day Care expenses.
• Retirement - Generous 401k matching program.
• Professional Growth - We provide paid education assistance and career advancement through promotions to qualified individuals.
• Paid Time Off - To have fun, take care of yourself, and your family.

Administrative Assistant Responsibilities

• Strategically organize and manage key projects for the construction team, including follow-up, communication and tracking projects to see them through fruition.
• Maintain complex project management tools and proactively gather information required in a timely manner from Construction Managers, outside contractors, plan centers, and other service providers.
• Perform standard construction industry requirements including, but not limited to preparing requisitions, presentation materials, subcontracts, change orders, lien waivers and AIA forms in appropriate formats.
• Managing subcontractor/vendor insurance certificates and unconditional lien waivers.
• Reconcile purchase orders, contracted costs, and invoices following set processes and coding.
• Research, compile and coordinates projects as requested.
• Provide general office support as necessary.

 Accounting Responsibilities

• Maintain billing e-mail.
• Collaborate to align construction processes and accounting processes.
• Ensure construction invoices are reviewed, coded and approved by project individuals.
• Audit project processes to ensure project reporting is timely and accurate.
• Identify concerns on subcontractors’ payment applications where costs are not aligned and follow through to resolution.
• Provide contract administration ensuring accounting practices are aligned with contract terms and that contract terms such as payments policies and lien wavers are upheld.
• Oversee accounting practices for contract closeout, settlements and archiving.
• Perform managing of construction vendor administration such as W9’s, sales tax and other needs. Verify vendor billing for particular month is accurate.
• Verify assembly and billing of all construction projects to include progress billing, sub-supplier payments purchase order billing and accuracy.
• Verify that all lien waivers are signed and collected monthly.
• Review subcontractor invoicing and payments to subcontractors.
• Analyze construction projects post completion to understand profitability, performance and long-term trends.

Qualifications

• An understanding of construction processes with a background of construction accounting is a plus.
• Superior interpersonal skills, including ease in working with people across the organization as well as with third parties such as subcontractors and vendors
• Ability to compute accurate business calculations at a level for successful job performance
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft office products.
• Minimum High School Diploma, post High School education a plus.
• English language required.
• Must pass criminal background check and drug test.

About the Company

Bonaventure is a family of companies dedicated to the development, construction, and operation of exceptional residential living communities.

Over the last 26 years, Bonaventure has developed and constructed over 7,000 units and over 6,700,000 of building square feet of senior living, multifamily apartments and office space in six states, along with the development of multiple subdivisions locally. Today, Bonaventure owns nearly 7,300 units in nine states. Several additional senior and apartment communities are currently under construction and development and are scheduled to open in 2026 and beyond.

Bonaventure never stops innovating and improving.