Construction Accounting Comptroller

Our company is looking for a Construction Accounting Comptroller who is a financial professional responsible for managing a construction company's accounting operations, job costing, project financial reporting, cash flow, and internal controls.

Construction Accounting Comptroller key Responsibilities include:

• Job costing: Track labor, materials, subcontractors, equipment, and overhead by projects.
• WIP reporting: Prepare Work-in-Progress schedules and analyze percentage-of-completion accounting.
• Financial reporting: Prepare monthly financial statements, balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow reports.
• Project profitability: Compare budgets against actual costs, identify cost overruns, and forecast final project margins.
• Accounts payable and receivable: Manage subcontractor payments, vendor invoices, progress billings, retainage, and collections.
• Contract accounting: Review change orders, commitments, draws, and contract revenue recognition.
• Payroll and compliance: Oversee construction payroll, certified payroll where applicable, and tax compliance.
• Internal controls: Establish accounting procedures, prevent errors and fraud, and prepare for audits.
• Cash flow management: Forecast funding needs and coordinate payments with project schedules.
• General: Collecting necessary legal and other documentation for subcontractors and organizing and categorizing electronic and physical bookkeeping filing system;

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
• 7–10 years of accounting experience, preferably in construction.
• Strong knowledge of job costing, WIP schedules, AIA billing, retainage, and percentage-of-completion accounting.
• Experience with construction accounting software such as Quickbooks, Viewpoint Vista, or Procore Financials.
• CPA certification is beneficial but not required.

Our fast growing company is looking for a Construction Accounting Comptroller who is a financial professional responsible for managing a construction company's accounting operations, job costing, project financial reporting, cash flow, and internal controls.