Cost Accountant; Construction

About Us

We are a leading industrial construction firm that specializes in the manufacture and installation of process and utility piping systems as well as custom sheet metal fabrication. Whether for large-scale projects involving heavy machinery or small-scale jobs handling delicate instruments, we have the capabilities to deliver a variety of duct, chute, piping, and structural steel fabrication and installation along with equipment setting and erection.

Job Title:
Cost Accountant (Construction)

Location:
Richmond, VA 23227

Reports to:
Controller / Chief Financial Officer

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Shift: Monday through Friday – 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

SUMMARY

The Cost Accountant assists the company in meeting its objectives and goals by performing a full cycle accounting process as it relates to the pay application process for specific projects. This includes understanding and compliance with established accounting principles, practices, and procedures, and regulatory compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related federal and state laws, and the upstream contractual requirements.

• Prepare monthly billings based on information received from Project Management teams.
• Generate client invoices using AIA, RSH, or client‑specific formats.
• Submit completed invoices to clients or upload through client portals.
• Maintain Accounts Receivable files and documentation.
• Maintain and reconcile the Sales Journal at month‑end.
• Enter all finalized billing into Star builder (accounting ERP software).
• Collect field employee timesheets, enter payroll data into Star builder, and process weekly union payroll.
• Assist in maintaining employee records.
• Prepare and submit required monthly union reports.
• Monitor the AP email inbox and process incoming invoices through PVault, including indexing and routing for approvals.
• Assist with the weekly AP check run, including printing and assembling checks.
• Perform limited office support for the Newport News location, including weekly travel to deliver field payroll checks, pick up mail, and retrieve documents.
• Maintain office supply inventory in the Newport News office.
• Review and understand and develop pay applications in accordance with upstream contractual requirements through communication with the accounting and project operations departments and their related processes and technological resources.
• Responsible for review, audit of accounts payable invoices specific to project pay applications. This includes vetting packing slips with vendor invoices for materials purchased for the applicable projects, equipment purchase orders vetting to vendor invoices, and the ability to discern errors in quantities, unit pricing, taxable vs. non taxable scenarios.
• Responsible for payroll audit and collection of payroll related data for the pay application process. Ability to interpret certified payroll reports, and reporting obligations.
• Responsible for ensuring all timesheets, time cards, and other means and methods of reporting of time is fully completed, and with accuracy and are approved by authorized managers within the organization (e.g. payroll coding, employee classifications, and authorized signatures are on time cards) and/or processed correctly through the remote time entry software.
• Prepares and customizes various excel reports developing source documents for the feed of data to various rollup Excel workbooks.
• Responsible for the timely and accurate development of the project pay application.
• Maintains employee confidence by protecting payroll information in confidence and within company best practices and policies.
• Flexibility to work additional hours when necessary to meet exceptional deadlines.
• Responsible for accounting compliance with accounting principles and practices, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and other federal and state law as required.
• Valid state driver’s license is required.
• Ability to meet the fitness for duty requirements as may be required of upstream clients is required.
• Ability to meet criminal background check requirements (seven prior years).
• This is not a remote work position.

• None

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