Cost Accountant in Dallas, Texas at Smith Group Americas

SMITH GROUP OF AMERICAS

COST ACCOUNTANT

Location

Dallas, Texas | Onsite

Reports To

CFO

Employment

Full-Time

Industry

Construction

POSITION SUMMARY

The Cost Accountant will strengthen project-level financial accuracy, cash application, billing, and customer account reconciliation across Smith Group of Americas. This onsite role partners with project managers and finance leadership to maintain job costs, WIP schedules, forecasts, commitments, receivables, and timely construction financial reporting.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintain accurate job-cost records by project, cost code, phase, contract, subcontract, purchase order, and change order.

Partner with project managers to review budgets, committed costs, actual costs, cost-to-complete estimates, and projected margins.

Prepare and update WIP schedules, percent-complete calculations, revenue recognition support, backlog, and variance analysis.

Reconcile project costs between accounting records and construction systems; investigate miscoding, missing commitments, duplicate charges, and timing differences.

Apply customer payments accurately in QuickBooks and match cash receipts to open invoices, supporting documentation, and customer remittance advice.

Review remittance details for invoice-number, amount, retainage, and payment-allocation discrepancies; coordinate with customers and internal teams to resolve unmatched payments.

Manage AR collections and follow up on aging balances, disputed invoices, short payments, and missing remittance information.

Reconcile customer accounts and QuickBooks activity, research unapplied cash and account variances, and maintain clear resolution documentation.

Support customer account dispute resolution by validating invoices, pay applications, change orders, credits, and payment history.

Support construction billing and owner pay applications, including schedule-of-values tracking, retainage, approved changes, billing status, and required documentation.

Review subcontractor and vendor invoices for proper project coding, approvals, contract alignment, lien-waiver requirements, and payment readiness.

Monitor receivables, unbilled costs, underbillings, overbillings, aging, and cash-flow impacts; escalate risks promptly.

Prepare project financial reports for project managers and finance leadership; assist with month-end close, accruals, journal-entry support, reconciliations, and audit schedules.

Help develop standardized job-cost, cash-application, billing, collections, and reconciliation controls as the finance team grows.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

3+ years of cost accounting, project accounting, AR, or construction accounting experience.

Working knowledge of WIP, job costing, pay applications, retainage, cash application, collections, remittance processing, and customer account reconciliation.

Strong Excel skills and experience with accounting and construction platforms; QuickBooks and Procore experience preferred.

High attention to detail with the ability to identify discrepancies, communicate with customers and project teams, and meet close deadlines.

Ability to work onsite in the Dallas, Texas office.

SUCCESS IN THE ROLE

Success means project costs are complete and correctly coded, customer payments are applied promptly and accurately, remittance and invoice discrepancies are resolved quickly, AR follow-up is consistent, and project managers and finance leadership have dependable information to protect cash flow and margins.

Smith Group of Americas | Equal Opportunity Employer