US Accountant

Designation: Senior US Accountant

Work Location: Ahmedabad (work from office)

Full Time

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Accountant to manage job cost accounting and project financials for US-based construction and contracting clients. You will own job cost reporting, WIP schedules, and billing accuracy, and work directly with US project managers and controllers.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and reconcile job cost ledgers across multiple active construction projects.
• Prepare and review monthly WIP schedules, including cost-to-complete, over/under billing, and percentage-of-completion calculations.
• Track subcontractor costs, commitments, pay applications and lien waivers.
• Review job cost variances against budget and flag margin erosion to project teams.
• Handle construction AP, including subcontractor invoices, retainage payable, and compliance documents.
• Support certified payroll and prevailing wage reporting where applicable.
• Perform month-end close activities, account reconciliations, and journal entries under US GAAP.
• Identify process improvements and support system migrations or reporting automation.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Accounting, Commerce, or Finance.
• 5+ years of US accounting experience, including 3+ years in construction or contracting.
• Hands-on experience with job costing, WIP schedules, and percentage-of-completion revenue recognition.
• Strong working knowledge of retainage, progress billing, and change order accounting
• Experience with accounting system - QuickBooks (advanced level).
• Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations).
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience working with U.S.-based companies, particularly in home services, construction industries, roofing, pest control, HVAC and landscaping, along with hands-on expertise in cash-to-accrual accounting, job costing, and class tagging.
• Familiarity with operational reporting metrics with ability to create trend charts and graphs for management reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with equipment costing, bonding, or multi-entity consolidation.
• Experience with ASC 606 as applied to construction contracts.
• Exposure to certified payroll, prevailing wage, and union reporting.
• Experience working with US clients in an offshore, GCC, or BPO setup.