Senior Project Accountant – Commercial Construction
Location: Northern California – Eastern Sacramento Region
Compensation: $95,000–$105,000 base salary, with flexibility depending on experience
Company Overview
- Join an established Northern California commercial general contractor with more than 20 years of experience serving clients throughout the Sacramento, Bay Area, North Bay, and surrounding markets.
- The company employs approximately 100–200 construction professionals, including a strong corporate and accounting team that supports projects across the region.
- Work spans more than a dozen commercial construction sectors, including corporate office, healthcare and medical, hospitality, retail, multifamily, education, life science, public works, and other specialized facilities.
- The contractor generates several hundred million dollars in annual revenue and is pursuing a long-term growth plan designed to substantially expand the business over the next several years.
- The company has successfully completed more than 1,000 projects and maintains an excellent record of profitable project delivery.
- It has consistently been recognized as both a leading regional contractor and a top workplace based on anonymous employee feedback.
- Senior employees average more than 15 years with the organization, reflecting strong leadership continuity, employee retention, and internal career opportunities.
- The culture is built around collaboration, accountability, financial discipline, and delivering a high-quality experience for clients, employees, and trade partners.
Position Overview
The Senior Project Accountant will play an important role in the financial management and oversight of the company’s commercial construction projects. Reporting directly to the Assistant Controller, this individual will manage project accounting activities from initial job setup and budget entry through monthly billing, cost reconciliation, compliance tracking, and financial closeout.
This position requires an experienced construction accounting professional who can maintain accurate project financial information, collaborate with project teams and subcontractors, and manage the accounting needs of multiple active projects.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage and oversee project accounting functions to ensure accurate, timely, and complete financial reporting.
- Establish new jobs within the accounting system, including job numbers, project budgets, cost codes, contract values, and other required financial information.
- Enter and maintain project budgets and Schedules of Values for client billing purposes.
- Prepare, review, and issue monthly client billings in accordance with contract requirements and established billing schedules.
- Monitor project costs, commitments, billings, payments, and financial performance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Post subcontractor billings into the accounting system and confirm that costs are accurately assigned to the appropriate projects and cost codes.
- Coordinate with subcontractors to obtain missing invoices, payment applications, lien releases, and supporting documentation.
- Collect and review third-tier subcontractor and supplier releases as required.
- Review and approve financial entries transferred from Procore into the company’s accounting system.
- Identify and resolve inconsistencies between the accounting system, project management platform, subcontractor billings, and project financial reports.
- Support accounts receivable activities, including payment tracking, collection follow-up, and resolution of client billing discrepancies.
- Work closely with project managers, project executives, operations leaders, and accounting personnel to address project-related financial matters.
- Track subcontractor prevailing-wage compliance throughout public works projects.
- Monitor preliminary notices and ensure all required notices are received, reviewed, and properly documented.
- Track preliminary notices submitted by suppliers and lower-tier subcontractors.
- Maintain accurate records of subcontractors, suppliers, and other parties with potential lien rights.
- Review project financials before closeout to confirm that outstanding billings, costs, commitments, releases, and compliance documents have been addressed.
- Complete the accounting closeout process once all financial obligations and billing cycles have been finalized.
- Ensure project accounting activities comply with company procedures, contract requirements, applicable accounting standards, and construction-industry regulations.
- Assist the Assistant Controller and accounting leadership with financial reporting, process improvement, internal controls, and other accounting initiatives as needed.
Qualifications
- Strong project accounting experience within commercial construction, general contracting, engineering, or another project-based industry.
- Thorough understanding of construction budgets, cost codes, commitments, client billings, subcontractor payment applications, lien releases, preliminary notices, and project closeout.
- Experience supporting multiple construction projects simultaneously.
- Knowledge of prevailing-wage requirements and public works compliance is strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail when reviewing financial information.
- Ability to identify discrepancies and work with internal project teams, clients, subcontractors, and suppliers to resolve them.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize competing deadlines in a fast-paced construction environment.
- Comfortable working independently while contributing to a collaborative accounting and operations team.
Software and Technical Skills
- Sage 100 Contractor: Experience using the platform for daily accounting and project-related financial activities.
- Procore: Experience reviewing project data, financial entries, commitments, subcontractor billings, and related project documentation.
- Bluebeam: Ability to review, mark up, and organize PDF documents.
- Microsoft Excel: Strong Excel skills required for financial analysis, reporting, reconciliation, and data management.
- Microsoft Office Suite: Proficiency with Outlook, Word, and other standard business applications.
Compensation
- Base salary of approximately $95,000–$105,000.
- Compensation may be flexible for a highly qualified candidate with strong commercial construction and project accounting experience.
- Opportunity to join a financially stable and growing contractor with long-tenured leadership, a strong regional reputation, and a history of promoting employee development and retention.