Cost Accounting Manager

The company is experiencing strong growth through both organic expansion and acquisitions, creating an outstanding opportunity for someone who enjoys building processes, improving visibility, and making a measurable impact. This individual will have the ability to help shape reporting cadence, enhance job costing accuracy, and create scalable operational accounting procedures.

This role is ideal for someone with strong construction, manufacturing, heavy civil, or project-based accounting experience who enjoys working closely with operations leaders and wants upward mobility inside a growing organization.

• Lead job costing and project cost tracking across active operations
• Analyze margins, labor, materials, equipment usage, and project profitability
• Improve reporting cadence from weekly toward daily operational visibility
• Own Work in Progress (WIP) schedules and Percentage of Completion (POC) reporting
• Partner with field leaders to ensure accurate production and cost inputs
• Reconcile operational data to financial statements and monthly close
• Develop and refine SOPs, controls, and reporting processes
• Assist leadership with budgeting, forecasting, and KPI development
• Support ERP optimization and data integrity initiatives
• Provide actionable insights to operations and executive leadership teams

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Construction Management, or related field
• 5+ years of accounting, cost accounting, or project accounting experience
• Background in construction, asphalt, paving, aggregates, manufacturing, or similar industries preferred
• Experience with WIP and Percentage of Completion accounting strongly preferred
• ERP experience required;
  Viewpoint Vista Construction experience highly preferred
• Exposure to DOT / infrastructure projects is a plus
• Strong Excel and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with both field personnel and executive leadership
• Self-starter mentality with desire to build and improve processes