Cost Accountant
Eatontown, NJFull-time$35/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
A Beacon Hill client in the construction industry is seeking a Cost Accountant to validate and reconcile project costs, including labor, materials, equipment, trucking, and subcontractor costs. The role works with field operations, project management, sales, and accounting to resolve discrepancies, capture incurred costs, and protect project margins. Two or more years of construction job costing, project coordination, or construction accounting experience is required.
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Compensation
$35.00 - $35.00 / Hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Job Description
Beacon Hill was founded to set a new standard in search, career placement and flexible staffing.
A Beacon Hill client in the construction industry is seeking a Cost Accountant to join their team. This role is responsible for validating and reconciling project costs in their system with a focus on labor, materials, equipment, trucking, and subcontractor costs. The position will work closely with field operations, project management, sales, and accounting to identify discrepancies, ensure all incurred costs are captured, and protect project margins. 2+ years of construction job costing, project coordination, or construction accounting experience is required.
Position Summary:
Review and validate job cost actuals entered into the system, including labor, materials, equipment, trucking, disposal, and subcontractor costs
Reconcile project costs against invoices, delivery tickets, weight slips, timecards, payroll reports, equipment logs, and subcontractor documentation
Identify missing, inaccurate, or misallocated costs and resolve discrepancies prior to billing
Confirm job costs align with contract scope, approved work, and change orders
Ensure all committed and incurred costs are captured before project closeout
Review actual versus estimated costs and support project profitability and margin analysis
Provide job costing sign-off and release completed projects for final review, invoicing, and closeout
Track project activity as field work is completed and help improve job costing processes and documentation
Technical Qualifications:
2+ years of construction job costing, construction accounting, or project coordination experience
Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Construction Management, or related field preferred; equivalent construction experience considered
Working knowledge of construction cost categories, including labor, materials, equipment, subcontractors, trucking, and disposal
Experience with job-costing/ERP platform preferred
Strong understanding of construction documentation, including change orders, vendor invoices, delivery tickets, timecards, equipment logs, and subcontractor agreements
Experience reconciling project-level actual costs against estimates and supporting documentation
Strong Excel skills and ability to analyze cost discrepancies
High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple active projects and follow costs through final closeoutBeacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.
California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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Company Profile:
Founded by industry leaders to set a new standard in search, career placement and flexible staffing, we deliver coordinated staffing solutions with unparalleled service, a commitment to project completion and success and a passion for innovation, creativity and continuous improvement.
Our niche brands offer a complete suite of staffing services to emerging growth companies and the Fortune 500 across market sectors, career specialties/disciplines and industries. Over time, office locations, specialty practice areas and service offerings will be added to address ever changing constituent needs.
Learn more about Beacon Hill and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting www.bhsg.com .
Benefits Information:
Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.
We look forward to working with you.
Beacon Hill. Employing the Future
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Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
1679934FICCKL-4662
How this job compares
Set against the 4,886 open Accounting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$35/hr
- New Jersey median$45–50/hr31 hourly ranges
- US median$25–30/hr440 hourly ranges
This rate, $35/hr, is 26% below the New Jersey median midpoint ($48/hr) — in the middle half of Accounting hourly ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 147 open Accounting jobs in New Jersey and 4,886 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- ManpowerGroup22 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Accounting postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,582 postings).
- Education
- 2,462 of the 4,886 open Accounting jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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