Contingency tracking
Matches every draw to its approval and flags the ones without.
Roles
Project Accountant
an accounting professional who tracks job costs, billing and budgets for construction projects and reconciles them for project reviews
Your job, minus the screen work
You keep each job's money honest: budget, commitments, cost, billing and the forecast. You usually carry dozens of active jobs at once. Most of the week goes to pulling and matching numbers rather than judging them.
Where your week goes
- Downloading cost reports for every job and pasting them into forecast workbooks
- Matching the PM's contingency spreadsheet against ERP budget transfers
- Reading schedule PDFs and guessing which activities match which cost codes
- Chasing PMs for allowance selections and final costs
- Building job review packets the night before the meeting
What an agent takes over
Allowance tracking
Keeps allowance costs inside their contract definition and catches miscodes.
Schedule-to-cost check
Compares each schedule update with cost progress and flags gaps.
Adjustment drafts
Prepares allowance adjustments for change orders, ready to approve.
Review packets
Builds job review packets from reconciled figures.
What stays with you
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Calling something contingency or change order, allowance or base scope
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The forecast conversation with each PM
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Owner-facing numbers and closeout
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What the controller needs to hear before the WIP meeting
Apps you already juggle
Construction ERP, Procore or Unifier, Power BI, timekeeping, OCR and AP tools, banking portals, Excel, SharePoint and Outlook.
- Construction ERP
- Procore
- Unifier
- Power BI
- timekeeping
- OCR
- AP tools
- banking portals
- Excel
- SharePoint
- Outlook
A week, before and after
Before
- Monday spent downloading reports
- Contingency logs that do not match
- Packets built at midnight
After
- Monday opens with a short flag list
- Contingency and allowance calls already routed
- Job reviews start from reconciled numbers
See every workflow for your role
See all 166 construction finance, controls and payroll workflows a project accountant touches.
JOB COST REPORT · TOTAL Project Accountant workflow catalog 166 constructionNo prompts. No babysitting. No Integrations.