Cost Accountant, Construction

About the role

The Cost Accountant assists the company in meeting its objectives and goals by performing a full cycle accounting process as it relates to the pay application process for specific projects. This includes understanding and compliance with established accounting principles, practices, and procedures, and regulatory compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related federal and state laws, and the upstream contractual requirements.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Review and understand and develop pay applications in accordance with upstream contractual requirements through communication with the accounting and project operations departments and their related processes and technological resources.
• Responsible for review, audit of accounts payable invoices specific to project pay applications. This includes vetting packing slips with vendor invoices for materials purchased for the applicable projects, equipment purchase orders vetting to vendor invoices, and the ability to discern errors in quantities, unit pricing, taxable vs. non taxable scenarios.
• Responsible for payroll audit and collection of payroll related data for the pay application process. Ability to interpret certified payroll reports, and reporting obligations.
• Responsible for ensuring all timesheets, time cards, and other means and methods of reporting of time is fully completed, and with accuracy and are approved by authorized managers within the organization (e.g. payroll coding, employee classifications, and authorized signatures are on time cards) and/or processed correctly through the remote time entry software.
• Prepares and customizes various excel reports developing source documents for the feed of data to various rollup Excel workbooks.
• Responsible for the timely and accurate development of the project pay application.
• Maintains employee confidence by protecting payroll information in confidence and within company best practices and policies.
• Flexibility to work overtime when necessary to meet exceptional deadlines.
• Responsible for accounting compliance with accounting principles and practices, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and other federal and state law as required.
• Valid state driver’s license is required.
• Able to meet the fitness for duty requirements as may be required of upstream clients is required.
• Able to meet criminal background check requirements (seven prior years).

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or Construction Management.
• One to three years of related professional cost accounting experience is required, preferably in the construction industry.
• General accounting fundamentals and concepts required.
• Strong understanding of related accounting practices and procedures.
• Advanced working knowledge of accounting systems software.
• Professional experience with certified payroll requirements, and bona fide fringe benefits.
• Computer Skills: Advanced end user of Microsoft applications, particularly Excel.
• Proficient to advanced usage and knowledge of accounting platforms and interface with Microsoft Access.
• Advanced usage and knowledge of accounting software solutions and Microsoft Excel.
• Proficient user of automated accounts payable platforms.