Senior Project Accountant Construction

Roof Technology Partners delivers expert commercial roofing solutions built on engineering-driven design, technical expertise, and long-term performance. We specialize in reroofing, service, maintenance, and restoration for complex facilities across the Southeast, using innovative approaches to solve real roofing challenges. At Roof Technology Partners, we offer more than a job, we offer the opportunity to build a lasting career with a team committed to safety, quality, and customer success.

RTP (Roof Technology Partners), a Skybound Service Partners company, is seeking an experienced accounting professional to join our team as a Senior Project Accountant. This role owns full-cycle project accounting and financial oversight for a portfolio of concurrent commercial roofing and construction projects.

The Senior Project Accountant partners closely with the Controller, project managers, and operations leadership to maintain accurate project financials, support forecasting and profitability analysis, identify financial risks, and ensure projects remain financially well-managed from initial setup through final closeout.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of project or construction accounting experience, a strong understanding of work-in-progress (WIP) and percentage-of-completion accounting, and the confidence to independently evaluate project financial performance and communicate issues and opportunities to project leadership.

• Own full-cycle job cost accounting for multiple concurrent construction and roofing projects, including project setup, cost coding, budgets, commitments, change orders, and ongoing budget-to-actual tracking
• Prepare and analyze monthly work-in-progress (WIP) schedules and percentage-of-completion revenue recognition calculations, ensuring project forecasts and financial results are complete and accurate
• Maintain and evaluate project estimated costs to complete (ETCs) in partnership with project managers and operations
• Review project financial forecasts for reasonableness, consistency, and emerging financial risks
• Monitor project budgets, committed costs, actual costs, anticipated costs, and profitability throughout the project lifecycle
• Identify cost variances, potential overruns, margin changes, and other financial risks and communicate findings to project managers and leadership
• Review and understand project contracts, subcontract agreements, change orders, schedules of values, and cost proposals for their financial impact
• Review, code, and process subcontractor and vendor invoices and ensure costs are recorded to the appropriate projects and cost codes
• Manage and reconcile project retainage, commitments, change orders, and related project accounting balances
• Reconcile job cost ledgers to the general ledger and prepare project-related journal entries for month-end and year-end close
• Support project-level cash flow forecasting and profitability reporting

• Partner with project managers to maintain accurate project forecasts, including contract value, approved and pending change orders, committed costs, anticipated costs, and ETCs
• Participate in and support recurring project forecast and WIP meetings with project managers and operations leadership
• Independently evaluate project forecasts and challenge assumptions when financial results, cost trends, or project activity indicate potential risk
• Analyze changes in projected gross profit and margin and help identify the operational or financial drivers behind significant changes
• Ensure project forecasts are supported by current project information and are consistent with accounting records
• Assist the Controller with the monthly WIP review and revenue recognition process
• Provide…