What are the responsibilities and job description for the Construction / Project Accountant – St. Louis, Missouri position at TSI Global Companies, LLC?
Summary
Responsible for setting up, billing, and monitoring the progress and variance of projects.
Primary Responsibilities
Responsible for setting up, billing, and monitoring the progress and variance of projects.
Primary Responsibilities
- New customer and job setup
- Bill, invoice, and maintain project-related records, including contracts and change orders
- Confer with project managers to review billings, change orders, contract amounts, and estimates for all projects, including investigating project variances
- Report to management on opportunities for additional billings or project savings
- Maintain lien waivers and other legal paperwork related to projects
- Respond to requests for additional detail from customers and/or project managers
- Perform monthly closing activities related to work-in-progress (% complete) accounting
- Close out projects upon completion
- Analyze and reconcile various balance sheet accounts
- Other entity and third-party platform setup and maintenance
- Analyze processes and procedures for potential improvement
- Assist with month-end and year-end financial statements
- Assist with year-end CPA audits and other tasks as assigned
- Assist with the reporting and remittance of sales and use tax
- Participate in ongoing training and education on ERP systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required
- 5–10 years of experience preferred
- Job cost and work-in-progress experience preferred
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
- Strong time, task, and priority management skills
- Team-oriented, teachable, and trainable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and Teams
- Construction industry and Vista ERP system experience preferred
- Monday–Friday, in-office work schedule (7:00–4:00 or 8:00–5:00)
- Business casual dress code