Project Accounting Manager in Madison
Listed on 2026-06-17
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Accounting
Accounting Manager -
Management
Job Description
Ascension Property Services
- Project Accounting Manager
Who we are:
Ascension Property Services (APS) is a nationwide group of specialty trade contractors with decades of experience in nearly all types of construction, including commercial, healthcare, educational, hospitality, manufacturing, and institutional. Our customer-focused, employee-driven business model builds long-term partners through loyalty, consistency, and expertise.
Our company culture is success-driven, people-oriented, collaborative, and fast-paced. We are passionate about helping our customers become more environmentally sustainable and profitable. We are looking for team members who are driven, passionate and want to take on diverse challenges to help grow a great company.
This role reports directly to the APS Project Accounting Director and is responsible for functions including but not limited to customer / job cost accounting and financial analysis.
Signs of Success: A successful Project Accounting Manager will demonstrate their ability to be both an effective financial partner to divisional VPs / SVPs as well as a successful manager of all things project accounting for their assigned business units. They will be known as a driving force for positive and timely cashflow, accurate project reporting, proactive risk identification and effective contract administration throughout their areas of management.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities :- Oversee the daily workflow and processes of the department to ensure timely and accurate execution of tasks.
- Ensure staff members are highly responsive to all external and internal inquiries, especially inquiries from our customers.
- Recruit, interview, hire new staff in the department with approval from the Project Accounting Director.
- Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.
- Balance employee workloads and encourage a culture of teamwork and excellence.
- Identify talent and invest in employee growth within the organization by pursuing all opportunities for their learning and advancement.
- Proper revenue recognition and intercompany elimination through the timely and accurate preparation of job schedules.
- Proper accounting for service billings.
- Timely job cost transfers and journal entries.
- Accurate use of cost centers and cost center allocations.
- Identification of PO or AP related errors for correction by production team or central AP.
- Projections review, documentation and modifications.
- Billing and manpower forecast preparation.
- Job schedule review and in-depth analysis.
- Proactive job / financial risk analysis and identification.
- Providing detailed training and systems expertise in Spectrum and Oracle EPM as needed.
- Prequalifications.
- Project Evaluations and Projection adjustments.
- Ensure contract approval process is administered according to the DOA.
- Customer and Job Set Up.
- Billings.
- Collections – Ensure all account aging issues are identified, communicated (especially with respect to necessity for accruals), and resolved in a timely manner.
- Identification of and escalation of AR Aging issues to the Project Accounting Director or legal for next steps.
- Cash Requirements.
- PO Approvals.
- Local Vendor Relationship.
- Vendor lien waiver collection.
- Facilitate special payments or invoice issues.
- Work to maintain positive cashflow on all projects under management and document any unresolved issues for escalation to Project Accounting Director or SVP.
- Provide support to the APS Controller, Project Accounting Director and CFO for all financial audit activities.
- Provide Project Accounting Director and…
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