Construction Business Administrator

Floor & Decor • Atlanta, GA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Floor & Decor, we’re transforming spaces and careers across the country. The most exciting thing we’re building isn’t just floors—it’s a company where dreamers, thinkers, and doers shape our future. With over 250 stores and counting, this is where ambition meets opportunity. Are you looking for new challenges? Let's build what's next. Your Work Matters Build more than budgets—build confidence. As the Construction Business Administrator at Floor & Decor, you’ll be the go-to expert behind the number, ensuring every construction project is financially sound, accurate, and audit-ready. From reviewing contractor invoices and change orders to partnering with internal teams across Legal, Procurement, and Finance, you’ll protect project integrity and drive accountability. If you thrive in the details, understand the moving parts of capital construction, and know how to spot red flags before they escalate, this is where your expertise makes a visible impact.

Requirements

• A minimum of B.S. or B.A. degree or similar work experience in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Construction Management, Project Management or Engineering.
• 3-5 Years of Experience/knowledge in construction management, construction cost estimating, and construction scheduling in the retail construction industry, preferred.
• Ability to work in construction Cloud Based Management Software (Kahua/ProjectMates/Procore), preferred.
• experience with construction payment application process, audits, reviews, or assessments of construction risk areas: change orders, general conditions, material costs, labor costs, equipment costs, and bid processes.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of project controls principles relating to budgeting, scheduling, tracking of actual/committed costs, forecasting.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Access/SQL and developing pivot tables and macros in Microsoft Excel is preferred.
• Proficient use of MS Office, including Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, and Outlook
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage multiple complex projects in varying phases of work.
• Ability to work in compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Flexibility and the ability to multi-task successfully, able to adapt to changing priorities and circumstances, as necessary
• Ability to function and work independently.
• Strong knowledge of capital project life cycle (project planning, budget, contract planning, project management and contract terms and conditions).
• The successful candidate will have experience auditing and reporting on construction costs including operational/financial/non-financial information, contract compliance, and project reports.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing contractor and subcontractor change orders to ensure they’re justified, compliant with contract scope, and accurately priced
• Leading reconciliation of payment applications, invoices, and purchase orders—ensuring all project costs align with budget and billing expectations
• Preparing and maintaining detailed construction budget tracking reports, highlighting variances, forecasting spends, and identifying opportunities to improve cash flow
• Coordinating lien resolution, waiver validation, and closeout documentation across internal legal teams and external construction partners
• Supporting our Real Estate and Facilities teams with reporting, invoice coding, and reconciliation across various construction software platforms
• Identifying and recommending operational improvements in project controls, financial workflows, and vendor billing practices
• Ensures that the Contractor/Vendor has fulfilled their contractual obligations and FND has received appropriate documentation for project closeout.
• Leads desk audits of change orders (change directives, Engineering change notices, field change requests) to assess accuracy and reasonableness. Additionally, review non-competitive bids to ensure that costs are also reasonable.
• Verifies that the work in a change order is not already within the scope of the original contract and verifies that the work was necessary and conforms to the drawing, design, and unit costs in case of unit price contract.
• Reviews change orders for accuracy of contractors’ prices, labor rates, construction quantities, and calculations.
• Coordinate with the legal department to clear any project liens.
• Work directly with general contractors to ensure all contractor and subcontractor waivers are correct before processing payment applications.
• Leads construction cost testing including reconciliation of payment applications, invoices, purchase orders, and construction control documents.
• Provide coding for invoices received outside of construction PMIS.
• Analyzes review of contractor labor billing rates, equipment billing rates and billing methods.
• Identifies cost savings, operational, and business process improvements.
• Provides feedback to internal and external auditors on audit performance as necessary
• Monitor and forecast cash flow projections for projects under construction
• Follow procedure established by the organization to evaluate project results regarding schedule and costs and other project related metrics.
• Interact with internal and external project managers, Construction Management Firms, procurement department and construction managers.
• Prepare construction budget tracking reports to show cost to date vs original budgets.
• Works with accounting and finance department to provide necessary invoices, contracts and documents
• Support adjacent Real Estate teams (E.g. Facilities, Maintenance) in respective software stacks with accruals and reconciliations.
• Review quotes and invoices for accurate completion by process of submission and close out of higher level cost.
• Assist in reporting to the various departments for YTD/QTD Spend
• Assist data SME for the compiling and interpretation of reporting

Benefits

• Bonus opportunities at every level
• Career advancement opportunities
• Relocation opportunities across the country
• 401k with discretionary company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Referral Bonus Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and other Insurance Plans (subject to eligibility criteria)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees