Senior Project Accountant

Title: Senior Project Accountant Location: Farmingdale, NY - 5 days onsite Salary: $125,000- $155,000

Position Summary A premier infrastructure and construction management firm is seeking a Senior Project Accountant to serve as a strategic financial partner to project leadership. This pivotal role focuses on proactive margin protection, financial risk mitigation, and executive-level trend reporting across complex, multi-year initiatives.

The successful candidate will maintain complete oversight of core project tracking - including monitoring labor, material, time, and equipment allocations against revenue and profitability targets. By driving accurate percentage-of-completion accounting, dynamic cash flow modeling, and rigorous financial controls, this role ensures optimal business and financial decision-making across all active and pipeline projects.

Primary Responsibilities & Essential Duties Project Financial Management & Risk Mitigation

• Drive primary financial ownership, evaluation, tracking, and strategic management of project claims and dispute resolutions.
• Build and maintain sophisticated rolling cash flow models and revenue projections for high-value, multi-year infrastructure projects.
• Direct monthly financial review meetings with Project Managers and Operations Directors, delivering in-depth variance analyses and actionable cost-mitigation strategies.
• Manage financial mechanics and risk controls for large-scale change orders and multi-tiered subcontractor compliance frameworks.

Reporting, Forecasting & Corporate Planning

• Analyze executive-level project performance trends to provide proactive risk-mitigation recommendations to senior leadership.
• Lead the annual project budgeting process and manage continuous rolling forecasts.
• Oversee progress billing preparation, progress invoices, and cross-project internal equipment cost allocations.
• Partner directly with the Regional Controller on regional forecasting, corporate business planning, and ad-hoc executive financial analysis.

Required Skills & Qualifications Experience & Education

• 7 to 10+ years of progressive project accounting or cost engineering experience within heavy civil, rail, transportation, or large-scale infrastructure construction.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA designation is considered a strong asset.

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