Project Accountant

Overview

This role involves serving as the financial backbone for accounts receivable submissions, tracking, and collections management for payment submissions into industry-specific financial portals. You will act as the primary finance liaison between the organization and clients’ accounting departments, ensuring project billing, cost tracking, and invoice submissions are executed in strict compliance with client process requirements.

Responsibilities

• GC Billing & Invoice Management
  • Prepare, review, and submit monthly progress billings and forecasts aligned with explicit contracting requirements.
  • Ensure submissions match project milestones and the schedule of values.
• Compliance & Lien Waivers
  • Collect, track, and execute conditional and unconditional lien waivers for progress and final payments.
  • Coordinate lien waiver needs with downstream subcontractors.
  • Coordinate required compliance documentation, including certified payroll, insurance certificates (COIs), and bond requirements.
• Project Cost Accounting
  • Monitor and analyze project budgets, commitments, actual costs, and forecasts.
  • Review labor, material, and equipment expenditures against the budget.
• Change Order Tracking
  • Collaborate with Project Managers to track, account for, and incorporate approved and pending change orders into the billing cycle.
• Cash Flow Optimization
  • Monitor Accounts Receivable (AR) aging reports for assigned projects.
  • Follow up with General Contractor accounting departments regarding payment status to minimize payment cycles and optimize cash flow.
• Retention Management
  • Track and manage retention withheld by GCs and ensure timely billing and collection upon project closeout.
• Financial Reconciliation
  • Conduct monthly project reviews with Project Managers to reconcile job costs and identify variances.
  • Identify and track required Change Order signatures.
  • Track cost updates against contract full values.

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of accounting experience with significant experience in the construction industry and ownership of subcontractor billing responsibilities.
• GC Billing Expertise: Hands-on experience submitting complex billing packages directly to General Contractors and navigating General Contractor payment portals (e.g., Textura, Procore, GC Pay).
• Technical Knowledge: Thorough understanding of AIA billing procedures, schedule of values, percentage-of-completion accounting, and lien requirements.
• Communication: Ability to confidently interface with General Contractor accounting teams, project managers, and internal operations.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is preferred (equivalent hands-on industry experience will be strongly considered).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing policy as code, infrastructure cost controls, and automated compliance evidence as part of infrastructure delivery.
• Experience with FedRAMP or another government cloud authorization program.
• Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure.
• Experience with another cloud provider that improved judgment about managed versus self-managed services.
• Experience at an early-stage company where cloud and platform practices were established while continuing to ship and operate production systems.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for you and your family
• Flexible working hours and remote work options
• Generous vacation and paid time off policy

Location

This role includes periodic travel to customer job sites.

Work Authorization

To be eligible for this position, you must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. The employer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.