Project Accountant

About The Role:

We are hiring a detail-oriented, Project Accountant with experience in the construction industry to join our team. In this role, you will serve as the financial backbone for accounts receivable submissions, tracking, and collections management process for submissions for payment into industry-specific financial portals. You will act as the primary finance liaison between Odin and our clients’ accounting departments, ensuring all project billing, cost tracking, and invoice submissions are executed flawlessly and in strict compliance with client process requirements.

If you have 5+ years of experience navigating the complexities of subcontractor-to-GC billing in the construction industry, mastering systems such as Textura’s Payment Management, Appay platform and other similar systems, AIA G702 payment form requirements, managing lien waivers, and forecast and draw requirements, this would be a great position for you.

What You Will Do:

• GC Billing & Invoice Management: Prepare, review, and submit monthly progress billings and forecasts matching explicit contracting requirements. Ensure all submissions align perfectly with project milestones and schedule of values.
• Compliance & Lien Waivers: Collect, track, and execute conditional and unconditional lien waivers for progress and final payments, including coordination with down-stream subcontractors. Coordinate required compliance documentation, including certified payroll, insurance certificates (COIs), and bond requirements.
• Project Cost Accounting: Monitor and analyze project budgets, commitments, actual costs, and forecasts. Review labor, material, and equipment expenditures against the budget.
• Change Order Tracking: Collaborate with Project Managers to track, account for, and incorporate approved and pending change orders into the billing cycle.
• Cash Flow Optimization: Actively monitor Accounts Receivable (AR) aging reports for assigned projects. Follow up with General Contractor accounting departments regarding payment status to minimize payment cycles and optimize cash flow.
• Retention Management: Track and manage retention withheld by GCs, ensuring timely billing and collection upon project closeout.
• Financial Reconciliation: Conduct monthly project reviews with Project Managers to reconcile job costs, identify variances, identify and track required Change Order signatures, and track cost updates against contract full values.

What We Are Looking For:

• Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of accounting experience with significant experience in the construction industry and ownership of subcontractor billing responsibilities.
• GC Billing Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience submitting complex billing packages directly to General Contractors and navigating various General Contractor payment portals (e.g., Textura, Procore, GC Pay).
• Technical Knowledge: Thorough understanding of AIA billing procedures, schedule of values, percentage-of-completion accounting, and lien requirements.
• Communication: Quality communicator, with the ability to confidently interface with General Contractor accounting teams, project managers, and internal operations.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is preferred (equivalent hands-on industry experience will be strongly

Nice To Have:

• Experience implementing policy as code, infrastructure cost controls, and automated compliance evidence as part of infrastructure delivery.
• Experience with FedRAMP or another government cloud authorization program.
• Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure.
• Experience with another cloud provider that improved your judgment about managed versus self-managed services.
• Experience at an early-stage company where you established cloud and platform practices while continuing to ship and operate production systems.

Why Odin:

• Rapid growth trajectory with multiples of revenue expansion over multiple years
• Category-defining product used on critical, high-security infrastructure and technology projects
• Led by an elite team of technologists, operators, and former federal and state security leaders
• Opportunity to shape core business functions during a transformative period of scale