Project Cost Accountant

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City:Houston

State:Texas

Project Accountant

Location: Houston TX (Hybrid Onsite 3 Days/Week Required)

Position Objective

The Project Accountant partners closely with Project Managers to ensure accurate timely and compliant financial management across projects. This role is critical to delivering profitable well-documented and audit-ready technical services with a strong emphasis on time-and-material billing prevailing wage compliance and construction-related cost accounting. The position provides clear actionable financial reporting to Project Managers Business Unit leadership and the Financial Controller.

Primary Responsibilities

• Review executed proposals and contracts to confirm alignment with agreed-upon terms conditions and billing requirements.

• Establish and maintain accurate project setups within the ERP system using approved pricing budgets and cost structures.

• Prepare review and reconcile weekly unbilled and draft invoice reports; identify and resolve discrepancies proactively.

• Generate accurate time-and-material invoices ensuring compliance with client-specific billing formats documentation standards and contractual requirements.

• Compile organize and present all required invoice backup including labor expenses subcontractor documentation and prevailing wage support.

• Collaborate directly with Project Managers to resolve billing delays cost variances and documentation gaps.

• Support invoice collections by providing billing status backup documentation and resolution of client inquiries.

• Maintain complete and audit-ready billing files including executed contracts invoices technical reports and supporting schedules.

• Review subcontractor invoices for accuracy and compliance; confirm executed subcontractor agreements and valid Certificates of Insurance are on file.

• Manage manual subcontractor documentation workflows where automated systems are not available.

• Assist with internal and external audits by providing requested project billing and compliance documentation.

Required Education & Experience

• Associates Degree in Accounting or a related field required (Bachelors preferred).

• Minimum of 2 years of project accounting experience or 5 years of equivalent hands-on accounting experience.

• Demonstrated experience with prevailing wage projects (California prevailing wage knowledge strongly preferred).

• Strong background in time-and-material billing environments.

• Proven experience in cost accounting ideally within construction infrastructure engineering or technical services industries.

• Working knowledge of ERP systems; JD Edwards experience highly preferred.

• Exceptional proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas reconciliations reporting) and comfort working extensively with spreadsheets and PDF editing tools.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across project and finance teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Architecture Engineering or Construction technical services billing experience

• JD Edwards ERP expertise

• Construction or Engineering project support exposure

• Experience supporting audit processes in project-based organizations

Compensation & Benefits

Salary Range: $55000 $65000 annually

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