Cost Accountant, Construction

About the Role

Poole and Kent Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of EMCOR Group, Inc., is seeking a Cost Accountant to support project operations in Franklin Furnace, OH. This role assists the company in meeting its objectives by performing the full-cycle accounting process as it relates to pay applications for specific projects, ensuring compliance with established accounting principles, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, federal and state laws, and upstream contractual requirements.

Responsibilities

• Review, understand, and develop pay applications in accordance with upstream contractual requirements through communication with accounting and project operations departments.
• Review and audit accounts payable invoices specific to project pay applications, including vetting packing slips with vendor invoices for materials, equipment purchase orders, and discerning errors in quantities, unit pricing, and taxable vs. non-taxable scenarios.
• Perform payroll audit and collection of payroll related data for the pay application process, with ability to interpret certified payroll reports and reporting obligations.
• Ensure all timesheets, time cards, and other time reporting methods are fully completed, accurate, and approved by authorized managers, including payroll coding, employee classifications, and authorized signatures.
• Prepare and customize various Excel reports, developing source documents for data feed to rollup Excel workbooks.
• Develop project pay applications in a timely and accurate manner.
• Maintain employee confidence by protecting payroll information in accordance with company policies.
• Flexibility to work overtime when necessary to meet exceptional deadlines.
• Maintain accounting compliance with accounting principles, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and other federal and state laws.

Qualifications

• Valid state driver's license required.
• Ability to meet fitness for duty requirements as may be required by upstream clients.
• Ability to meet criminal background check requirements (seven prior years).
• Must be work authorized in the United States on a full-time basis without need for employer sponsorship now or in the future (no F-1 visa holders requiring future sponsorship).
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or Construction Management preferred.
• One to three years of related professional cost accounting experience 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.

Required 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.
• Proficient user of automated accounts payable platforms.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to self-proof work for accuracy.
• Professional written and verbal communications skills.
• Professional emotional intelligence and steadfast composure.
• Ability to discern work assignment priorities and utilize independent thinking within scope of authority.
• Commitment to performing duties in a safe manner within company policies and federal/state laws.
• Ability to work collectively with peers and support teamwork.
• Ability to effectively organize and manage information and processes.
• Commitment to company values.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, cooperate, and collaborate with multiple levels of employees, vendors, and suppliers.
• Must be fluent in English both verbally and in writing.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit, see, talk, and hear.
• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Regularly required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• May occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty-five (25) pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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