Project Accountant jobs in Texas

The Project Accountant role directly assists in multiple enterprise activities. You will be responsible for setting up projects in our accounting system, certify for employee charging, revenue recognition and billing requirements. Additional responsibilities include maintaining project budgets and ensuring all job cost transactions are properly recorded and reconciling job cost to the general ledger.

Responsibilities

Setup projects in accounting system, Deltek Costpoint, certify for employee charging, revenue recognition and billing requirements; maintain project budgets

Ensure all job cost transactions are properly recorded; reconcile job cost to general ledger

Validate and direct job cost allocations

Responsible for all A/R activities on assigned projects

Review and approve accounts payable on assigned projects

Inventory adjustments, manufacturing sales orders entry and maintenance

Accounting for warranty and non-warranty repairs

Liaison with sales, engineering, manufacturing, project management and lead project reviews

Journal entries and Intercompany accounting and reconciliation

Assist in project budget development and forecasting activities

Maintain subcontractor compliance components for assigned projects

Maintain compliance details for subcontractor paid-when-paid activities

Review and approve employee expense transactions

Review and process project related contracts and change orders

Ensure timely reconciliation of project costs to ensure smooth month-end close

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, CPA or MBA a plus, but not required
• GMP contract experience and the accounting for substantial projects required
• At least 3-5 years of project accounting experience, construction experience a plus
• Relevant certifications and professional associations: CMA (Certified Management Accountant), CGMA (Chartered Global Management Accountant), APICS a plus
• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Knowledge of FASB ASC 606 (“Contracts with Customers”) revenue recognition and deferred revenue
• General familiarity of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) helpful
• Ideal candidate should be detailed oriented and well organized
• Ability to communicate and work with project managers to establish budgets
• Experience with Discrete Manufacturing (project-based), also referred to as Job Shop
• Manufacturing, or Engineer to Order (ETO) Manufacturing
• Deltek Costpoint experience preferred. Similar ERP/MRP would be SAP, Oracle/JD Edwards, Infor, Syteline, Syspro, MS Dynamics
• Deltek Costpoint Materials modules (Procurement, Manufacturing) experience a major plus
• Cognos business intelligence experience a plus
• International and multicurrency experience a plus, but not required
• Strong Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Advanced Excel skills, pivot tables, lookups, etc.

This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.