Construction/Manufacturing Project Accountant
KLOVER · Quakertown, PA · 3 wk ago
AccountingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: h3 for headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. We need to extract content from posting.
We need to decide which sections have real specific content.
General Summary of Position: can be "About the role". That is prose.
Essential Duties (Core Competencies): list of duties -> Responsibilities.
Qualifications: includes Preferred Experience etc -> Qualifications.
Company Standards: maybe part of Requirements? Could be "Skills"? Actually "Company Standards" is about behavior; could be under "Skills" or "Requirements". But we can include as part of Qualifications or maybe a separate "Skills" section? The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should include only those with real content.
We have Benefits listed: Klover Benefits list. So Benefits section.
Pay: not mentioned. So omit Pay.
Schedule: not mentioned. Omit.
Requirements: maybe we can include "Supervisory/Management Requirements: N/A" but that's N/A, we should not include filler. So maybe we skip Requirements if no real content besides N/A. However there may be implicit requirements like "Preferred Experience" etc which we already put in Qualifications. Could also put "Requirements" for things like clearances etc. The posting includes clearances required: Pennsylvania Child Abuse History Clearance etc. That is a requirement. Also "Company Standards" etc. So we could have a Requirements section covering clearances, company standards, etc.
Skills: we have "Advanced Microsoft Excel skills", "Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills", "Ability to work in a fast-paced construction environment", "Independent work/judgement. Strong attention to detail." Also experience with ERP systems. Those could go under Skills.
We need to avoid duplication. Let's structure:
About the role
General Summary of Position: ...
Responsibilities
- ... each duty ...
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should break each duty into separate
- . Could be long but okay.
We must not include boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The posting includes EEO statements at end; we should remove those. Also remove "Company Standards" maybe not boilerplate but it's about conduct; we can include under Requirements or Skills? It's not a skill but a requirement. We'll put under Requirements.
Also remove "The following PA Act 153 clearances..." that's a requirement.
Also remove "Klover Contracting Inc. expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment..." that's EEO boilerplate; remove.
Also remove "Klover is committed to providing equal employment opportunities..." etc; remove.
Now we need to decide sections:
- About the role (summary)
- Responsibilities (Essential Duties)
- Qualifications (Preferred Experience, etc)
- Skills (Analytical, Excel, ERP, etc)
- Requirements (Clearances, Company Standards, maybe Supervisory/Management Requirements N/A omitted)
- Benefits (list)
We should not include Pay or Schedule.
Now we need to ensure we don't create sections with filler like "N/A". So we omit Supervisory/Management Requirements.
Now we need to extract details precisely.
Let's copy the relevant text.
General Summary of Position:
"The Construction/Manufacturing Project Accountant is responsible for overseeing job costing, project budget tracking, and accounting support functions for a growing construction and prefabrication company. This role is responsible for maintaining accurate financial data related to projects, monitoring job profitability, supporting operational decision-making, and helping leadership maintain strong financial controls. The ideal candidate has experience in construction accounting and job costing, understands project financial management, and can work closely with project managers, operations, purchasing, and leadership teams to improve budget accuracy and profitability"
We'll put that in
. Now Responsibilities: list from "Essential Duties (Core Competencies):" and subsequent bullet-like sentences. We need to break each duty into separate
- . The text includes many sentences; we can treat each sentence or clause as a duty. Let's parse:
- Maintain accurate job costing for all construction and prefabrication projects
- Track and analyze: Labor costs
- Material costs
- Subcontractor costs
- Equipment expenses
- Freight and shipping costs
- Overhead allocations
- Monitor projects budgets versus actual costs
- Assist in developing and maintain project budgets
- Work closely with project managers and operations teams to identify cost overruns and budget concerns
- Review purchase orders and vendor commitments against project budgets
- Assist with monthly project financial reviews
- Support forecasting of projects margins and cash flow needs
- Prepare and maintain accurate Work In Progress (WIP) schedules
- Track percentage-of-completion reporting and project revenue recognition
- Assist leadership in evaluating:
- Cost-to-complete estimates
- Earned revenue
- Underbillings and overbillings
- Estimated final project margins
- Generate weekly and monthly project financial reports for management review
- Provide analysis on project performance trends and cost drivers
- Develop reporting tools and dashboards to improve operational visibility
- Assist with forecasting company backlog, cash flow, and project profitability
- Participate in project startup meetings to establish financial tracking requirements
- Assist estimating and project management teams with budget setup and cost planning
- Review change orders and assist with tracking approved and pending changes
- Coordinate with purchasing and operations to verify pricing and material cost accuracy
- Assist in evaluating vendor pricing, material usage, and purchasing trends
- Support inventory and material tracking procedures within fabrication and warehouse operations
- Help establish operational controls to improve project efficiency and accountability
- Assist with month-end and year-end close processes
- Reconcile job cost reports to general ledger activity
- Support accounts payable and accounts receivable processes related to project accounting
- Assist with payroll allocation and labor costing
- Maintain accurate cost coding and project financial records
- Support sales tax and multi-state construction reporting requirements and filings
- Assist external CPA firms and auditors with financial documentation and tax filings
- Assist with licensing for projects
- Help maintain accounting procedures and internal controls
- Assist in monthly forecasting and projections
- Complete prequalification’s for jobs as needed
- Manage and provide the monthly status on the bad-debt write-off process and provide recommendations for reserve accruals.
- Manage and provide monthly status reports on the release of bonds, liens, and all other related processes pertaining to cash and contract receivables.
- Manage the job status from active, to inactive, to closed, and issue status reports monthly.
- Help improve job cost tracking systems and reporting accuracy
- Assist leadership with financial analysis and operational reporting
- Develop and maintain project cost tracking tools and dashboards
- Improve documentation and purchasing controls
- Work collaboratively with: Project management, Purchasing, Estimating, Operations, Executive leadership
- Assist with implementation and improvement of ERP/accounting systems
- Help improve: Job cost accuracy, Reporting efficiency, Purchasing controls, Financial workflows, Inventory controls, Documentation standards
- Develop standardized financial reporting procedures across departments
- Train project managers and staff on job cost procedures and financial reporting expectations
- Support executive leadership with special projects, financial analysis, and operational initiatives
- Participate in management meetings and project review discussions as needed
- Assist with materials, tools, equipment, and physical inventories, and cycle count as needed.
- Learn, understand, and support inventory management procedures and accounting.
- Other Duties As Needed:
- Assist with records retention maintenance.
- Provide payables and capital data for audits (insurance, state, internal).
- Follow up on vendor inquiries from vendors and/or employees.
- Establish new state/local reporting requirements, as necessary (includes online setup, maintaining a log of account numbers, filing requirements, and deadlines).
- Follow standard operating procedures to ensure employees can complete tasks successfully.
- Backup payroll timecard processing, as needed.
- Backup billing functions and accounts payable functions, as needed.
- Backup purchasing functions, as needed.
- Backup project management assistant functions for payables, as needed.
- Assist/provide expertise in setting up Excel files for various departments throughout the company.
- Provide training to other employees pertaining to Foundation, Excel, and other useful reporting tools to improve business knowledge.
We need to include all these as list items. That's a lot but okay.
Now Qualifications: "Preferred Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field preferred 3–7 years of accounting or job cost experience Construction Accounting Experience Strongly Preferred Strong understanding of: Job costing Construction financial reporting WIP schedules Budget tracking Cost analysis Experience with accounting or ERP systems such as: Sage Foundation QuickBooks Enterprise Acumatica Viewpoint Procore integrations Advanced Microsoft Excel skills Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills Ability to work in a fast-paced construction environment Independent work/judgement. Strong attention to detail. Experience with Foundation accounting system is a plus."
We could split Qualifications into a paragraph or list. Since it's a list of qualifications, we can use
- . But the instruction says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Qualifications is a list of requirements, so we can use list. But we also have a separate Skills section; we might split some items into Skills. However Qualifications could contain education, experience, etc. Skills could contain technical skills. Let's decide: Qualifications: education, years experience, construction accounting experience, understanding of job costing etc. Skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, Ability to work in fast-paced construction environment, Independent work/judgement, Strong attention to detail, Experience with Foundation accounting system is a plus, Experience with ERP systems (Sage Foundation etc). However the qualifications already mention ERP systems. To avoid duplication, we could put all under Qualifications and not have Skills. But the instruction allows Skills section if we have real specific content. We have specific skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, Ability to work in fast-paced construction environment, Independent work/judgement, Strong attention to detail, Experience with Foundation accounting system is a plus. Also experience with ERP systems. We could put those under Skills. Qualifications would then contain education, years experience, construction accounting experience, understanding of job costing etc. Let's do that. Qualifications list: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field preferred - 3–7 years of accounting or job cost experience - Construction Accounting Experience Strongly Preferred - Strong understanding of: - Job costing - Construction financial reporting - WIP schedules - Budget tracking - Cost analysis Now Skills list: - Advanced Microsoft Excel skills - Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills - Ability to work in a fast-paced construction environment - Independent work/judgement - Strong attention to detail - Experience with Foundation accounting system is a plus - Experience with accounting or ERP systems such as: Sage Foundation, QuickBooks Enterprise, Acumatica, Viewpoint, Procore integrations But note ERP systems already mentioned in Qualifications; but we can still list under Skills; duplication maybe okay but we should avoid repeating same content. However we could keep ERP under Skills and not under Qualifications. Let's move ERP to Skills and keep Qualifications focused on education/experience/understanding. Thus Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field preferred - 3–7 years of accounting or job cost experience - Construction Accounting Experience Strongly Preferred - Strong understanding of: - Job costing - Construction financial reporting - WIP schedules - Budget tracking - Cost
- . But the instruction says use