Senior Cost Accountant

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🌐 Mexico, Colombia, +1 more countries – Remote

🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote 🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote 🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💲 Accountant / Accounting

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Zipdev

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Zipdev is a company that specializes in providing remote talent solutions, particularly focused on hiring top Latin American professionals. Zipdev enables companies to build high-performing teams in their own time zones while reducing costs compared to local hiring. The company offers a streamlined hiring process that includes defining hiring needs, selecting top candidates, and onboarding new team members, handling payroll and HR overhead. Zipdev fills a variety of technical and professional roles, such as software engineers, project managers, and designers. The company is recognized for its ability to provide cultural alignment and scalable, flexible hiring solutions.

📋 Description

• Own the job cost accounting process across structural steel, fabrication, miscellaneous metals and railing, and stair tower lines • Analyze estimated versus actual labor hours and material costs by job and piece mark; investigate and report variances • Track man-hours per ton and productivity trends against bid assumptions • Monitor material cost variance, particularly steel price volatility against fixed-price bids • Develop and refine standard costs and cost allocation methodologies across cost centers • Prepare and own monthly WIP schedules and percentage-of-completion revenue recognition • Analyze over/under billings and proactively flag margin fade to leadership • Lead change order cost analysis and ensure timely capture • Partner with project managers on project forecasts and cost-to-complete estimates • Prepare project profitability reports and management dashboards • Support budgeting, forecasting, and bid-margin analysis • Provide cost insights to estimating and operations to improve future bids • Monitor backlog, DSO, retention receivable, and the cash gap from financing steel purchases against slow receivables • Serve as finance lead for extracting and reconciling cost, labor, and material data from Tekla PowerFab • Drive improvements to job-costing processes and PowerFab-to-GL integration • Strengthen internal controls around project accounting • Ensure compliance with GAAP and construction-specific accounting standards • Support external audits, surety/bonding requirements, and OCIP/Non-OCIP insurance reporting • Mentor and review the work of junior accounting staff

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance (required) • CPA, CMA, or Chartered Accountant strongly preferred • 5+ years of accounting experience, with at least 3 years in construction, steel fabrication, or manufacturing cost accounting • Demonstrated expertise in job costing and percentage-of-completion / WIP accounting • Experience supporting surety/bonding and audit processes • Advanced Microsoft Excel (complex models, pivot tables, data analysis) • Strong command of construction/job-cost accounting software (Sage 300 CRE, Foundation, Viewpoint, or similar); Tekla PowerFab experience a significant plus • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills • Ability to translate cost data into actionable insight for non-finance leaders • Ownership mindset and high accuracy • Strong cross-functional collaboration with shop, field, and project management • Leadership and mentoring ability • Sound judgment with confidential financial information

🏖️ Benefits

• Work remotely Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week (no weekends) • Vacation: 10 business days a year • Holidays: 5 National Holidays a year • Company Holidays: 5 Company Holidays a year (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Zipdev Day) • Parental Leave • Health Care Reimbursement • Active Lifestyle Reimbursement • Quarterly Home Office Reimbursement • Payroll Deduction Purchase Plans • Longevity Bonus • Continuous Learning Bonus • Access to Training and Professional Development Platforms