Senior Project Accountant Construction

Job Description

Job Description

Roof Technology Partners delivers expert commercial roofing solutions built on engineering-driven design, technical expertise, and long-term performance. We specialize in reroofing, service, maintenance, and restoration for complex facilities across the Southeast, using innovative approaches to solve real roofing challenges. At Roof Technology Partners, we offer more than a job, we offer the opportunity to build a lasting career with a team committed to safety, quality, and customer success.

Position Overview

RTP (Roof Technology Partners), a Skybound Service Partners company, is seeking an experienced accounting professional to join our team as a Senior Project Accountant. This role owns full-cycle project accounting and financial oversight for a portfolio of concurrent commercial roofing and construction projects.

The Senior Project Accountant partners closely with the Controller, project managers, and operations leadership to maintain accurate project financials, support forecasting and profitability analysis, identify financial risks, and ensure projects remain financially well-managed from initial setup through final closeout.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of project or construction accounting experience, a strong understanding of work-in-progress (WIP) and percentage-of-completion accounting, and the confidence to independently evaluate project financial performance and communicate issues and opportunities to project leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Project Accounting & Financial Management

• Own full-cycle job cost accounting for multiple concurrent construction and roofing projects, including project setup, cost coding, budgets, commitments, change orders, and ongoing budget-to-actual tracking
• Prepare and analyze monthly work-in-progress (WIP) schedules and percentage-of-completion revenue recognition calculations, ensuring project forecasts and financial results are complete and accurate
• Maintain and evaluate project estimated costs to complete (ETCs) in partnership with project managers and operations
• Review project financial forecasts for reasonableness, consistency, and emerging financial risks
• Monitor project budgets, committed costs, actual costs, anticipated costs, and profitability throughout the project lifecycle
• Identify cost variances, potential overruns, margin changes, and other financial risks and communicate findings to project managers and leadership
• Review and understand project contracts, subcontract agreements, change orders, schedules of values, and cost proposals for their financial impact
• Review, code, and process subcontractor and vendor invoices and ensure costs are recorded to the appropriate projects and cost codes
• Manage and reconcile project retainage, commitments, change orders, and related project accounting balances
• Reconcile job cost ledgers to the general ledger and prepare project-related journal entries for month-end and year-end close
• Support project-level cash flow forecasting and profitability reporting

Project Forecasting & WIP

• Partner with project managers to maintain accurate project forecasts, including contract value, approved and pending change orders, committed costs, anticipated costs, and ETCs
• Participate in and support recurring project forecast and WIP meetings with project managers and operations leadership
• Independently evaluate project forecasts and challenge assumptions when financial results, cost trends, or project activity indicate potential risk
• Analyze changes in projected gross profit and margin and help identify the operational or financial drivers behind significant changes
• Ensure project forecasts are supported by current project information and are consistent with accounting records
• Assist the Controller with the monthly WIP review and revenue recognition process
• Provide timely and accurate project financial information to support management reporting and decision-making

Billing, Collections & Subcontractor Compliance

• Support the Billing Coordinator with owner billing submissions, including AIA G702/G703 pay applications, schedules of values, change orders, retainage, and supporting documentation
• Monitor project billing status and accounts receivable and partner with the appropriate teams to support timely collection
• Review subcontractor payment documentation, including invoices, lien waivers, certificates of insurance, and other required compliance documentation
• Help ensure subcontractor payments are appropriately supported and consistent with contract terms, project progress, and compliance requirements
• Assist with resolving billing, payment, cost coding, and project accounting discrepancies with project teams, customers, subcontractors, and vendors

Project Closeout

• Manage the financial closeout process for assigned projects
• Ensure final billings, collections, subcontractor payments, retainage, change orders, commitments, and project costs are appropriately resolved before financial closeout
• Review final project profitability and investigate significant differences between original expectations and final results
• Ensure project accounting records and supporting documentation are complete and audit-ready

Business Partnership & Process Improvement

• Develop strong working relationships with project managers, superintendents, operations leadership, subcontractors, and internal accounting teams
• Serve as a financial resource to project teams by helping them understand project costs, forecasts, margins, billing status, and financial risks
• Maintain an independent financial perspective when reviewing project forecasts and financial results and escalate significant risks or inconsistencies to the Controller
• Identify opportunities to improve project accounting, forecasting, WIP, billing, and closeout processes
• Assist with the implementation and ongoing use of the Company's enterprise ERP system, Sage Intacct, and related construction systems
• Support external audits, surety and bonding requests, tax return preparation, and other financial reporting requirements by providing accurate project financial information
• Compile supporting schedules and documentation for financial reporting and audits
• Review the work of and mentor junior project accounting staff as assigned
• Collaborate with Operations, Corporate Accounting, and other cross-functional teams to improve consistency and financial visibility across the organization
• Take on additional responsibilities and special projects to support the Company's continued growth

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project or construction accounting experience, ideally within commercial roofing, construction, or specialty contracting
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field
• Strong working knowledge of percentage-of-completion accounting, WIP schedules, job costing, project forecasting, and cost-to-complete concepts
• Understanding of the construction project lifecycle, including budgeting, commitments, change management, billing, forecasting, cost control, and project closeout
• Experience reviewing project financial performance and working directly with project managers and operations personnel
• Hands-on proficiency with Sage 100 Contractor and/or Sage Intacct preferred
• Experience with Procore or similar construction project management software preferred
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and financial analysis
• Familiarity with AIA billing, schedules of values, retainage, lien waivers, and subcontractor compliance requirements
• Familiarity with construction contracts, insurance requirements, and bonding concepts preferred
• Experience with certified payroll and prevailing wage reporting is a plus
• CPA or active progress toward CPA licensure is a plus
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate financial information effectively to both accounting and operational audiences

Ideal Candidate Traits

• Detail-oriented with strong follow-through and accountability
• Comfortable taking ownership of project financials from setup through closeout
• Confident working independently while knowing when financial risks should be escalated
• Able to constructively question project assumptions and investigate inconsistencies
• Strong business partner who can build credibility with project managers and operations teams
• Organized and capable of managing multiple project deadlines and priorities
• Team-oriented with a service mindset toward project managers and field personnel
• Comfortable mentoring junior staff while continuing to learn and take direction from the Controller
• Interested in improving processes rather than simply maintaining existing practices

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of project accounting and financial performance for a growing commercial roofing platform within the Skybound Service Partners family of brands. The Senior Project Accountant will work closely with the Controller and operations leadership and gain broad exposure to WIP, project forecasting, revenue recognition, job costing, project profitability, and multi-entity construction accounting.

As the organization continues to grow and standardize its financial processes and systems, this role will have the opportunity to help shape how project accounting is performed across the business and take on increasing responsibility over time.

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Thank you for considering a career with Roof Technology Partners. We believe great teams are built on diverse perspectives. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. We invest in our people and provide competitive pay, benefits, and a supportive work environment where your skills and contributions matter.