Project Accountant

The Job Cost Accountant works closely with branch leadership, operations management, and project management to ensure all financial activities, including revenues and costs, are recorded timely and accurately in support of the business. This position will work with the divisional accounting team to implement appropriate processes and controls for transactional activity and support the branch leadership to record and monitor the financial position of the branch to ensure revenues, job costs, and operational costs are reported accurately and in accordance with the standards established by the division accounting team.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provide direct oversight and support of transactional accounting including purchasing, work orders, and project costing for the branch
• Periodically review costs and other financial activity to ensure appropriateness and accuracy in support of branch leadership
• Partner with operations team and branch personnel to ensure contracts and change orders are setup accurately and recorded properly in the project system
• Produce operational and financial reports and reviews as needed to support branch leadership
• Assist with month end closing processes in coordination with division accounting team
• Understand financial policies, including basic knowledge of GAAP, internal controls and percentage of completion accounting to support operations team and financial review
• Understand the financial and operational systems in use by the business
• All other duties as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Prior experience with project accounting and percentage of completion
• Experience with MS Excel, including dealing with large data sets, and the use of pivot tables, xlookup, sumifs, and other functions
• Experience and proficiency in the use of NetSuite
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.