Staff Accountant & Business Analyst

Overview

At Harrison Green, we create landscapes that enrich daily life, foster connection, and bring enduring beauty to the places people call home. Our work spans city rooftops, townhouses, country estates, hospitality environments, and boutique commercial projects, each approached with the same commitment to thoughtful design, meticulous execution, and long-term stewardship.

Operating across three distinct divisions—Design, Installation, and Maintenance—our commercial success relies on rigorous business-level accounting, precise GAAP/WIP compliance, and executive-level profitability analytics. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, this role serves as the central manager of our firm-wide financial ecosystem and business intelligence.

While our Cost Estimating Lead focuses on micro-level project budgets and job-cost autopsies, you will own macro-level financial operations—including full-charge bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online, divisional P&Ls, overall firm profitability analysis, and the synthesis of executive KPI dashboards. This is not a generic corporate accounting role. We are seeking an operational analyst who understands the financial mechanics of high-end design-build or architecture studios and wants to drive business-level growth insights.

Key Responsibilities

Business Level Accounting

• Full-Charge Accounting: Manage day-to-day general ledger operations in QuickBooks Online, overseeing Accounts Receivable (milestone billing, retainers, client statements) and Accounts Payable (subcontractor pay apps, vendor bills, expense classification).
• WIP & Month-End Close: Perform monthly bank, credit card, and merchant reconciliations. Execute Work-In-Progress (WIP) adjustments, deferred revenue releases, and accruals to ensure audit-ready month-end closes for our external CPA.
• Cash Flow Management: Monitor firm liquidity, maintain cash flow forecasting models, and manage yield-bearing reserve accounts for capital allocations and incentive pools.

Departmental Profitability & Executive Analysis

• Divisional P&L Management: Prepare, review, and analyze monthly and quarterly Profit & Loss (P&L) statements for each distinct business unit (Design, Installation, Maintenance) to evaluate divisional margin health.
• Firm-Wide Profitability Insights: Synthesize financial data into actionable executive summaries for the CFO and Executive Committee, identifying macro revenue trends, overhead cost drivers, and business expansion opportunities.
• Central KPI Dashboard Management: Lead the maintenance and visualization of the firm’s central KPI performance dashboard. Aggregate data across accounting (QBO), project management (Smartsheet), and time-tracking (ClockShark) to track billable utilization, sales cycle velocity, and milestone adherence.
• Cross-Analyst Collaboration: Partner with the Cost Estimating Lead—ingesting their project-level "Estimated vs. Actual" data into business-level profitability models and executive KPI views.

Who You Are

You are a detail-obsessed financial professional who thrives at the intersection of accounting precision and executive business intelligence. You love clean general ledgers, understand how divisional P&Ls tell the story of a firm's health, and enjoy translating complex raw data into clear executive insights.

What You Bring

• Industry Experience: Minimum 2–5+ years of hands-on accounting and business analysis experience within an architecture, landscape design, interior design, luxury design-build, or professional services firm.
• Macro Accounting Expertise: Deep working knowledge of GAAP principles, WIP accounting, deferred revenue recognition, chart-of-accounts structuring, and multi-departmental P&Ls.
• Software Mastery: Advanced proficiency in QuickBooks Online, ADP WorkforceNow, and time-tracking/project management platforms (e.g., ClockShark, Smartsheet).
• Excel & Analytics Skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets skills (pivot tables, complex formulas, financial modeling, conditional logic).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business Administration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Senior Financial/Operations Analyst experience in an NYC design, architecture, or specialty construction studio.
• Prior experience building or managing company-wide KPI dashboards and executive reporting suites.