Senior Construction Project Accountant (Hybrid)

Addison Group; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid position

Job summary

Addison Group seeks a Senior Project Accountant to support real estate development, with a focus on job cost and construction accounting, accounts payable, and cash management. The role involves coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders to keep projects on track.

The position requires strong accounting skills, construction project experience, and proficiency in Excel. It offers a hybrid work arrangement with some site visits to development sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in accounting or related field.
• 5+ years of accounting experience, including significant construction accounting.
• Strong understanding of the construction lifecycle, project costs, and development accounting.
• Experience with job cost accounting, general ledger, reconciliations, and project-level accounting.
• Strong Excel skills (SUMIF/SUMIFS, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, PivotTables).

Responsibilities

• Oversee job cost accounting and accounts payable for real estate development and construction projects.
• Maintain ledgers for development entities, including journal entries, reconciliations, and capitalization of project costs.
• Reconcile intercompany accounts across enterprise and development entities.
• Prepare and review project-level trial balance reconciliations.
• Monitor and analyze development project cash balances.
• Support construction draws, funding requests, and project disbursements.
• Perform treasury and cash management activities for development projects.
• Prepare and maintain loan draw schedules and supporting documentation.
• Support year-end close and annual audits for development entities.
• Coordinate with auditors regarding cost certifications, eliminating entries, and affordable housing documentation.
• Review project accounting activity and guide Project Accountants to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Collaborate with development, construction, property management, and accounting teams to resolve issues.

Skills

Job cost accounting

Construction accounting

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

Yardi

MIP/Abila

Job description

Addison Group seeks a Senior Project Accountant to support real estate development, with a focus on job cost and construction accounting, accounts payable, and cash management. The role involves coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders to keep projects on track.

The position requires strong accounting skills, construction project experience, and proficiency in Excel. It offers a hybrid work arrangement with some site visits to development sites.