Project Accountant/Audit Manager - (Owner's Representative) - Data Center Construction

KALCON • Houston, TX

2d • $90,000 - $140,000 • Onsite

About The Position

KALCON is seeking a Project Accounting & Audit Manager to oversee financial controls, audit compliance, contract validation, invoice review, forecasting accuracy, and project accounting for data center construction projects. This role involves close collaboration with various stakeholders including the Director of Construction, Program Managers, Cost Managers, Procurement, Finance, Contractors, and Consultants. The primary goal is to ensure financial integrity, accurate reporting, regulatory compliance, and adherence to project budgets throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in project accounting, construction auditing, project controls, financial management, or contract administration for large capital construction projects.
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Construction Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field.
• Strong understanding of construction contracts, GMP agreements, change orders, pay applications, procurement processes, and cost controls.
• Proficiency with Procore, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and project financial management systems.
• Experience performing financial audits, compliance reviews, invoice validation, and forecasting assessments.
• Strong analytical, reporting, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to analyze project budgets, commitments, forecasts, and contractor financial documentation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to interact professionally with contractors, executives, project teams, and finance stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting data center, mission critical, industrial, infrastructure, semiconductor, or large commercial construction projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides independent owner-side financial oversight, validation, reconciliation, and audit support to maintain accurate project budgets, commitments, forecasts, invoicing, and reporting.
• Oversee project budget setup, reconciliation, corrections, transfers, vendor allocations, commitments, allowances, and contingency tracking.
• Maintain alignment among approved budgets, contracts, purchase orders, change records, forecasts, invoices, and actual expenditures.
• Monitor subcontractor and vendor spend and validate projected expenditures and forecast-at-completion.
• Identify budget gaps, duplicate commitments, unallocated costs, unsupported forecasts, and financial variances.
• Support development and maintenance of financial models, cash-flow forecasts, and management.
• Review invoices and pay applications for contractual compliance, mathematical accuracy, approved progress, retainage, stored materials, insurance, lien documentation, and supporting records.
• Coordinate field validation of installed work, delivered materials, and claimed.
• Oversee timely invoice routing, approval status, payment processing, and resolution of.
• Conduct periodic audits of contracts, commitments, changes, allowances, buyout, invoices, and project financial records.
• Maintain clear audit trails and support internal, external, and project-specific audit.
• Prepare regular cost reports, variance analyses, commitment reports, cash-flow forecasts, and executive financial summaries.
• Facilitate cost review meetings with ǪII, cost consultants, contractors, procurement teams, and project management.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support project decisions and cost-control.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting consistency, data quality, and software utilization.
• Support project financial closeout, final reconciliation, release of retainage, and final account.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• 401(k) retirement plan with 4% KALCON match when an employee contributes at least 5%
• 15 days of paid time off
• 8 paid National Holidays
• Reimbursement for professional licenses and certifications

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior