Senior Accountant

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily accounting operations, monthly financial reporting, and compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Support the construction, maintenance, and storage of modular buildings.
• Expertise in construction accounting, including progress billing, job costing, inventory tracking, and compliance with industry-specific financial requirements.
• Oversight of accounts receivable and accounts payable functions to ensure accurate financial records, timely transaction processing, and effective collaboration with team members and organizational leadership.

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and post journal entries, including consolidation and elimination entries, in accordance with established accounting procedures.
• Support the monthly consolidation process by preparing and reviewing consolidated financial information and ensuring the accurate recording of intercompany and elimination entries.
• Reconcile and analyze general ledger accounts, identify discrepancies, and prepare adjusting entries as necessary.
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations and verify all reconciling items, including outstanding checks and bank charges.
• Evaluate current inventory management tools and processes and assess system options that reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets while improving inventory accuracy, visibility, and scalability.
• Reconcile inventory balances to the general ledger to ensure that physical inventory values align with financial records.
• Provide oversight of accounts receivable and accounts payable functions to ensure the accurate and timely processing of customer invoicing, including progress billings, and vendor payments.
• Evaluate and standardize current customer invoice processes to ensure accuracy, increase efficiency, and verify that invoices are recorded appropriately in the general ledger.
• Prepare and maintain Work-in-Progress (WIP) reporting to reflect the financial status of active projects, including the calculation of overbilling and underbilling to support accurate revenue recognition under the percentage-of-completion method.
• Track project-specific expenses to compare actual costs against estimated budgets and support effective job costing.
• Work with department heads to analyze historical financial data and forecast future revenue and expenses.
• Prepare monthly financial statements, analyze financial results, and provide management with commentary regarding account fluctuations and budget variances.

Qualifications / Education

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting required; CPA designation preferred.
• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of progressively responsible accounting experience required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of construction industry accounting principles and practices.
• Experience with municipal contracts is a plus.

Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP functions, and complex formulas.
• Proficiency in accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, with the ability to maintain accurate financial data and generate meaningful reports.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to perform account reconciliations, identify variances, and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare accurate financial reports, manage multiple priorities, and maintain a high level of attention to detail and confidentiality.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.