Project Accountant Job Saint Louis area,St. Louis Missouri USA,Accounting

Location: St. Louis

Date Posted: 08/11/2026
Job Category: Missouri - Office
Salary Interval: HOURLY
Pay Range: N/A

Position Summary

Vee-Jay is a concrete contracting company built on trust, craftsmanship, and teamwork. We’re looking for a Project Accountant to join our Accounting team — someone who takes pride in accuracy, thrives in a fast-paced construction environment, and enjoys connecting the dots between numbers and real-world projects.

This role bridges Accounting and Operations, providing accurate and actionable job cost insight that helps Project Managers, Estimators, and company leadership make informed decisions. It’s hands-on and detail-driven, involving both transactional work and data analysis, with growing opportunities to improve systems and reporting processes as we modernize.

Key Responsibilities

Job Cost & Accounting Support

Perform job cost analysis and identify cost overruns, margin risks, and trends.

Monitor and maintain project budgets, costs, and profitability.

Analyze budget-to-actual results and explain cost variances.

Support the month-end close process with job cost and accrual adjustments

Compile cost data and documentation for internal reporting and management review

Cross-Department Collaboration

Act as a key liaison between Accounting, Project Management, Estimating, Payroll and Operations.

Communicate regularly with team members to collect updates and resolve discrepancies at all levels.

Resolve cost coding, billing, payroll, and reporting discrepancies.

Ensure consistency between field reports, payroll data, invoices, and financial records.

Process Improvement & Reporting

Contribute to developing and analyzing new reports, templates, and internal dashboards

Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy in cost tracking

Support ongoing initiatives to automate or streamline manual processes

Assist in documenting procedures and standardizing recurring workflows

Administrative & Systems Tasks

Assist with automating and streamlining manual procedures.

Manage updates and changes to project-specific financial data

Maintain strong version control and backup practices for reporting files

Support audit and review requests with organized, clearly labeled documentation

What Makes This Role Right for You

You enjoy structure, accuracy, and following data from source to outcome

You take pride in being the steady, reliable point of contact others count on

You like seeing how your work connects to real projects in the field

You’re curious about improving processes and open to learning new tools

You want to be part of a close-knit team that values accountability and progress

Vee-Jay Cement Contracting Co. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.