Job Description

Position Description

GCON is a construction management firm with annual billings exceeding $500 million, delivering commercial, healthcare, public works, and high-tech projects across the region. We’re looking for a Senior Project Accountant who wants to specialize in project accounting and play a key role in the financial success of active construction projects. In this role, you’ll serve as the dedicated accounting resource for one or more project teams, managing the accurate and timely processing of project-related financial information while bringing strong knowledge of construction accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting.

Your primary stakeholders will be project teams and subcontractors, making collaboration and a customer-service-oriented approach just as important as technical accuracy. As GCON’s project portfolio grows, occasional travel to job sites may be required, including a large project in West Texas once fully mobilized. It’s an opportunity to work closely with the field and project teams while seeing firsthand how the numbers you manage every day translate into projects in the field.

GCON Culture of Caring Benefits:

• Competitive compensation
• 100% employee medical/dental premium coverage (generous family coverage with 3 plans to tailor to needs)
• Immediate employer 401(k) contribution regardless of employee participation
• Potential annual profit sharing bonus
• Employee rewards program to redeem for gift cards or contribute to cause of your choosing
• Tuition reimbursement program for pursuits outside position
• Sponsorship for continuing education for career pursuits
• 40 hours of volunteer time off (VTO) for causes you support in addition to PTO
• Employee boot voucher program
• Access to StrongerWork optimal mental health services

The GCON Way:

GCON Inc. is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ and has a national reach, with permanent teams in Hillsboro, OR, Rio Rancho, NM, and Santa Clara, CA. We specialize in a wide range of project types, facilitated by highly specialized builders. GCON builds its advanced teams through robust career development training programs, a leadership development (LEADERS) program, and a diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging culture aligned with our value of Stewardship.

GCON’s Core Values of Unconventional Thinking, Value Delivery, Set a New Standard, Continuous Improvement, and Stewardship bring GCON team members together to inspire opportunities and promote new ideas. Our people centered ethos is evidenced through our strong Safety culture recognized for 2 consecutive years with the Highwire Platinum designation, as well as our employee recognition program, GCON’s Greatest, which promotes daily teamwork and camaraderie that are central to a meaningful career.

Responsibilities

• Request, receive, route for approval, record, and post all subcontractor invoices, collecting monthly on a set cycle
• Receive, track, and record preliminary lien notices, and monitor and resolve ongoing subcontractor compliance issues
• Administer project payments and compliance tracking through the Textura Payment Management system
• Reconcile and post subcontractor invoices, owner pay applications, credit card statements, and business unit overhead invoices on a monthly close cycle, proactively resolving outstanding or missing items
• Partner with the Business Unit Leader to keep cost forecasts current and help prepare for monthly project review meetings
• Prepare and process accounts receivable billings, and process accounts payable and ACH payments through an electronic workflow
• Support continuous improvement initiatives alongside the Project Accounting Supervisor, Financial Accounting, and IT teams
• Use AI and automation tools to speed up routine accounting work, while maintaining responsibility for reviewing and validating any AI-assisted output before it's relied on for financial reporting or decisions

Skills/Qualifications

• 4+ years of accounting experience with an associate degree in a related field, or a bachelor's degree with 2+ years of accounting experience
• 2+ years of construction-related accounting experience — either directly with a general contractor, or with a subcontractor that regularly works with GCs
• A clear sense of where you want to take your career, with project accounting as the specialty you want to build on. This is a role with room to grow within GCON
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple deadlines across projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and genuine comfort fielding questions from project teams and subs
• Openness to using AI and new technology in your day-to-day work; willingness to learn is a must, prior use is a bonus
• Comfort with an in-office team environment; this is not a remote position

Nice to Have

• Experience with Textura Payment Management software
• Experience with CMiC software
• Experience with construction joint venture accounting
• Notary commission

Physical Requirements:

• Standing/Walking/Sitting
• Legs: Must be able to climb stairs
• Hands/Arms: Constant use of hands/fingers for mouse/keyboard/computer use
• Vision: Visual acuity in near, mid, and far range. Color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, hand/eye coordination
• Hearing: Sufficient to hear conversational levels in person and over the telephone and radio; sufficient to hear alarms on equipment
• Speech: Sufficient to make oneself heard in person, speak in front of groups, and be understood over the telephone and radio
• Lift/Carry: Up to 40lbs.
• Bending/Twisting
• Kneeling/Crouching/Crawling

GCON is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the bases of any status protected under federal, state, or local law. Applicants will be considered regardless of their race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, GCON also has a strong corporate commitment to inclusion.

Notice to all Employment, Staffing & Recruiting Agencies and Recruiters: We please ask that you do not directly email, call or visit our hiring managers. GCON does not accept unsolicited resumes and should any be received from a third party they will not be considered, unless a signed agreement is in place. If you would like to discuss becoming a preferred staffing vendor to GCON please contact our recruitment team who will advise you on the process.

Job Tags

For contractors, For subcontractor, Work at office, Local area

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