Accounting Manager - Construction & Development

Responsibilities

• Oversight of day-to-day accounting operations for the Construction & Development division, including new development and renovation projects.
• Management of monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Maintenance of job costing procedures, project accounting practices, financial controls, and internal control safeguards.
• Collaboration with Project Management and Operations teams to ensure accurate cost coding, project reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Entry of new job budgets provided by Project Management and updating budgets in accounting and construction software as needed.
• Management of cash management and oversight for each development and renovation project and related entity, including contractor and professional payments, wires, transfers, fees, loan disbursements, and equity contributions.
• Review of subcontractor and supplier monthly invoices and AIA pay applications; ensuring invoices and pay applications are accrued timely and coded to the correct cost reports and phase codes.
• Tracking of overall development and renovation draw status, including receipt dates, source funding, vendor invoice detail, and payment detail.
• Preparation of monthly and periodic Development Project funding requisition packages for lenders and investors in accordance with loan and ownership agreements.
• Execution of supplier payment runs and subcontractor draw payment runs for each development and renovation project.
• Monitoring of retainage, change orders, contract balances, overall project financial performance, lien waivers, insurance, W-9s, and other compliance items.
• Reconciliation of vendor statements, response to inquiries, resolution of inconsistencies, performance of monthly bank reconciliations, and research of stale checks, invoice issues, and discrepancies.
• Collection, coding, and obtaining approvals for miscellaneous project expenses; review of job cost activity monthly for consistent and accurate coding.
• Support of budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and strategic growth initiatives.
• Coordination with external accounting firms, auditors, and financial advisors; assistance with external audit requests as needed.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory, banking, tax, operating, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements.
• Identification and implementation of process improvements, automation opportunities, operational efficiencies, and enhancements to accounting systems and reporting tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably within construction accounting.
• Strong knowledge of job costing, project accounting, month-end close, reconciliations, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and financial reporting.
• Experience with construction ERP/accounting systems; Sage 300 CRE and Timberscan required, Oracle preferred, and Procore experience a plus.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office platforms.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to work effectively under deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, set priorities, take ownership, and see projects through to completion.
• Proven ability to identify issues, improve processes, and drive operational results.
• Excellent communication, organizational, relationship-building, and leadership skills.