Project Accountant

Project Accountant

As a Project Accountant at C.A. Murren, you will be a critical financial partner to project leadership, helping ensure the financial health and integrity of a large-scale construction project. At your best, you bring accuracy, discipline, and visibility to project costs, billing, commitments, and financial reporting. You help project teams understand where the project stands financially, identify risks early, and maintain the controls and documentation necessary for successful execution. If you want a career where your attention to detail and financial expertise directly contribute to project success, this is the position for you!

C.A. Murren is seeking a Project Accountant who will manage key financial and accounting activities for a large-scale construction project. The ideal candidate will have experience with job costing, contract billing, work-in-progress reporting, subcontractor and vendor payables, change management, and project financial controls. This person must be highly organized, analytical, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced construction environment. The Project Accountant will work closely with project managers, subcontractors, vendors, procurement, payroll, and the corporate accounting team to maintain accurate project financial information and support successful project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor actual project costs against budgets and forecasts; identify variances, potential exposures, and opportunities for cost improvement.
• Prepare detailed monthly project cost reports and assist with cost-to-complete estimates, forecasts, revenue projections, and work-in-progress calculations.
• Track committed costs, pending commitments, change orders, and other potential financial impacts to the project.
• Prepare monthly progress billings, including AIA forms, schedule-of-values updates, retainage, and required supporting documentation in accordance with contract requirements and submission deadlines.
• Coordinate with project managers to validate quantities, percent complete, billable items, and change-order billing; track accounts receivable and follow up on outstanding payments.
• Review subcontractor pay applications for accuracy, contract compliance, insurance requirements, lien waivers, approved change orders, retainage, and required documentation.
• Review vendor invoices and match them to purchase orders, supporting documentation, and appropriate cost codes; coordinate with project management and procurement to resolve discrepancies.
• Maintain the project change-order log and ensure requested, pending, and approved changes are accurately reflected in budgets, forecasts, commitments, and billing schedules.
• Validate field timecards for labor classification, cost-code assignment, job allocation, and accuracy; coordinate with payroll to support timely and accurate labor postings and certified payroll reporting when required.
• Maintain organized and accurate project financial records, including contracts, pay applications, change orders, certificates, lien waivers, and other supporting documentation.
• Ensure project financial practices comply with internal accounting policies, audit standards, contractual requirements, and established financial controls; assist with internal and external audits as needed.
• Collaborate with project management, procurement, AP/AR, payroll, and corporate finance teams; communicate project financial status, risks, and issues in a timely manner.
• Provide financial analysis and reporting to support project leadership decision-making and successful project outcomes.
• Follows all company policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Operates ethically to protect the assets and image of the company.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as per business needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field desired.
• 48 years of accounting experience, ideally within construction or another project-based environment.
• Strong understanding of job costing, work-in-progress reporting, contract billing, revenue recognition, and change management.
• Experience with construction ERP or project-management systems such as Procore, Viewpoint Vista, CMiC, Sage 300, Acumatica, or comparable platforms.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and lookup formulas.
• Excellent communication, organization, administrative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines, and high-volume workloads while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong documentation, financial-control, and compliance discipline.
• Ability to work effectively with project leadership, field personnel, subcontractors, vendors, and corporate accounting teams.

Requirements:

• Valid driver's license
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Participation in pre-employment and random drug screening program
• Subject to background screening

To be considered for this position, you must first complete our Culture Index personality survey. Please use the link provided below and select the position that most closely corresponds with this role. This assessment will take about 15 minutes of focused time. Please set aside time to complete it start to finish. Please know we use the results of this Index seriously when comparing a candidate to the role and personality traits we've established as necessary to perform this job well. Thank you.