Project Accountant

The purpose of your role as a Project Accountant

The Project Accountant is responsible for maintaining accurate, complete and timely job cost and inventory to support the financial statements.

Accounting Functions:

• Take ownership of accurate setup, maintenance, OCIP/CCIP designation, and inactivation of jobs, phases, cost codes, budgets, and contracts


• Ensure contracts, change orders, exemption certificates, and OCIP/CCIP insurance documents are complete, accurate, and properly saved in master folders


• Review contract language to confirm correct tax status and required wording is included


• Analyze material, labor, and project-related expenses to uncover productivity trends, margin drivers, and performance insights


• Capture, classify, and analyze cost data to ensure accurate project costing


• Track job cost changes and clearly assess their impact on project margins


• Partner with Project Managers and Accounting to ensure timely job/work order setup and smooth month-end close and PM reviews


• Prepare clear, meaningful reports and graphs to support project and financial decision-making


• Proactively identify unallocated labor and work with PMs to correct issues before they impact results


• Own daily and monthly accounting activities, troubleshooting variances through data mining, detailed analysis, and research


• Prepare accurate, GAAP-compliant journal entries to ensure clean and reliable financial records


• Support inventory accuracy and internal controls through physical counts, reconciliation, and analysis of fab shop inventory (if applicable)\

Miscellaneous:

• Validate purchasing card (pcard) costs and ensure accurate coding to work orders and jobs


• Lead or actively participate in cross-functional initiatives to streamline processes and improve accuracy and efficiency


• Follow accounting policies and procedures while helping strengthen internal controls


• Support special projects, job cost research, and ad hoc analysis as needed


• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve processes, internal controls, and compliance while understanding business initiatives and their accounting impact


• Process inventory transfers for job costing and maintain accurate inventory costs and quantities


• Maintain clear, up-to-date written procedures for inventory control processes and functions

What we're looking for in you

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field preferred


• 5+ years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and hands-on experience


• Proven experience with general ledger, accounts payable, cost accounting, payroll, and inventory in a service or construction environment


• Experience working with accounting and financial reporting systems (COINS, UltiPro, Adaptive Insights preferred)


• Strong foundational knowledge of US GAAP and accounting best practices


• Advanced Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables


• Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 tools

Your life at Harris

As one of the country's leading mechanical contractors, Harris offers you the best of both worlds: the stability, resources and opportunities of a national company, and the team culture, creative spirit and customer loyalty of a local business. If you thrive on variety and new challenges, we want to meet you!

From stadiums to manufacturing facilities, power plants to hospitals, concert halls to classrooms, we handle projects of all sizes and complexity from multiple regional locations across the country.

Harris Benefits + Compensation

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance


• 401K with company match


• Vacation time, sick time, and paid holidays


• Paid Parental leave


• Sales Incentive Plan

Visit our Careers Page for additional benefit details: https://www.harriscompany.com/careers/employee-benefits-at-a-glance

Pay Range: $56,863 - $85,295 year

The actual salary offer will vary by candidate based on a wide range of factors such as specific skills, qualifications, experience, and location.