Accounting Manager – US Construction Company

Republic Homebuilding and Renovations; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 763,000 - 1,017,000; Full time

Job summary

Republic Homebuilding & Renovations is seeking an experienced accounting professional to own the entire accounting function for a US residential construction company. This is a fully remote, independent contractor role from the Philippines with a permanent night shift,Mon–Fri, 9:30 PM–6:30 AM Philippine time, paid in USD.

You will not perform data entry; you will close, reconcile, and review job-cost data, while cleaning up historical books.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accountancy.
• 3+ years of accounting experience, including at least one year where you were personally responsible for closing the books every month.
• Experience assigning costs to specific projects or jobs, including deciding which job a cost belongs to at the time you record it.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close process including reconciling accounts and producing the financial package.
• Own job costing data and review work to ensure accuracy.
• Maintain bank feeds and payables; ensure proper classification of expenses.

Skills

Closing the books monthly

Job costing / cost allocation

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accountancy

Tools

QuickBooks Online

JobTread

Buildertrend

Job description

Own the entire accounting function for a US residential construction

company. Fully remote from the Philippines, permanent night shift,

$9.00 to $12.00 per hour paid in US dollars - roughly PHP 95,700 to

PHP 127,500 per month at today's exchange rate.

This is not a data-entry job. Read the engagement terms below before

you apply; we would rather you rule yourself out now than at offer

stage.

THE ENGAGEMENT - PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING

• This is a direct engagement with a United States company. You would work as an independent contractor, not as an employee under Philippine labor law, and you are responsible for your own taxes and government contributions.
• We do NOT provide SSS, PhilHealth, or Pag-IBIG contributions, and we do NOT provide HMO or medical coverage. Our pay is set above the local market rate for an Accounting Manager specifically because of this. Please factor it into your decision.
• We DO pay a year-end bonus equal to one month's pay, prorated by month of hire.
• This is a permanent night shift. Monday to Friday, 9:30 PM to 6:30 AM Philippine time (8:30 AM to 5:30 PM US Central), one hour unpaid lunch, 40 hours per week.
• This is exclusive and full time. You may not hold another job or client engagement while working with us. You will be asked to list every current engagement in your application.
• We use screenshot monitoring software on work computers.
• Because pay is in US dollars, the peso value moves with the exchange rate.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

You will own the accounting function.

We have separate staff who enter bills, send invoices, chase documents, and track purchase orders. Your job is to own the close, own the reconciliations, own the job cost data, and review their work – not to do it yourself.

We are also going to be straightforward with you about something most job posts leave out: our historical books need cleanup work. Costs have not been consistently coded to the right jobs, and some accounts need to be reorganized. Your first ninety days include a defined cleanup project alongside normal monthly work. You will not be inheriting a perfectly clean system, and we are not pretending otherwise.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you enjoy solving, we want to hear from you. If it sounds like a headache, this is not the right role for you, and that is fine.

ABOUT REPUBLIC HOMEBUILDING & RENOVATIONS

Republic Homebuilding & Renovations is a design-build residential construction and remodeling firm based in Webster, Texas, USA, serving homeowners throughout the Greater Houston area. We specialize in high-quality renovations, additions, and custom residential projects.

We run about ten active jobs at a time, ranging from $20,000 to $300,000. We use QuickBooks Online for accounting and JobTread for project management and job costing.

REQUIREMENTS - ALL FOUR ARE REQUIRED

• Bachelor's degree in Accountancy
• 3+ years of accounting experience, including at least one year where you were personally responsible for closing the books every month - not assisting someone else who closed them
• Experience assigning costs to specific projects or jobs, including deciding which job a cost belongs to at the time you record it

STRONGLY PREFERRED

• Construction, remodeling, or contracting industry experience, especially US residential
• Experience with a project management or job-costing system alongside the accounting system (JobTread, Buildertrend, Procore, CoConstruct, or similar)
• Experience producing a monthly Work in Progress (WIP) schedule using percentage-of-completion
• Experience closing books for more than one related entity, including intercompany transactions
• QuickBooks Online Advanced Certification / ProAdvisor
• CPA (PRC) licence

If you do not have every item on the preferred list, apply anyway.

The four requirements above are what matter.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

Monthly close

• Reconcile all bank, credit card, and loan accounts every month
• Produce the monthly financial package: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow statement
• Produce a monthly Work in Progress (WIP) schedule
• Prepare monthly reporting packages required by outside parties
• Close on a published schedule, not "when it gets done"

Job costing

• Ensure every cost is coded to the correct job and correct cost type at the time it is recorded
• Maintain a clean separation between job costs and company overhead, and apply it consistently
• Reconcile job cost data in QuickBooks against JobTread and resolve the differences
• Produce per-job cost reporting the project team can actually rely on

Bank feed and payables

• You are the only person who touches the bank feed. Bank feed items must be matched to existing bills before they are categorized - never entered as new expenses when a bill already exists
• Maintain accounts payable and review vendor bills entered by admin staff
• Weekly review for duplicate or miscoded transactions

Other

• Run payroll and maintain payroll records
• Maintain the chart of accounts. You are the only person who may add or change an account
• Review the work of the admin staff who enter bills and prepare
• Reconciliation work extends to two affiliated partnerships in addition to the main company

YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS

• Day 14: a written month-end close procedure, in your own words, that someone else could follow
• Day 45: first complete set of reconciliations across all bank, credit card, and loan accounts
• Day 75: first complete monthly financial package, delivered on
• Day 90: agreed cleanup milestones met, and job cost data usable for estimating

WORK SETUP REQUIREMENTS

• Reliable high-speed internet AND a reliable backup internet connection
• Backup power supply
• Willingness to use screenshot monitoring software on work computers

WHY YOU WILL LIKE WORKING HERE

• Real ownership. You are the accounting function, not a task-taker
• A defined problem with a defined finish line, and a company that already knows what is broken
• Admin support, so you are not buried in data entry
• Direct access to the company President. No layers, and genuine US construction accounting experience: job costing, WIP, percentage-of-completion

OUR HIRING PROCESS

1. Application and screening question review
2. Short introductory video call
3. Paid two-hour work sample - a real reconciliation and job-costing exercise. We pay you at the role's hourly rate for your time, whether or not we make an offer. Finalists only
4. Reference check with a direct supervisor from a recent role
5. Offer