Project Accountant
Company Name: Zebra
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Project Focus: Hotels, Branded Residences, Retail, Restaurant, Offices, Airports
Work Setting: Full-Time
Base Salary: $65,000 - $95,000
Total Compensation Package: Competitive salary
Recruited Exclusively By: Luxus Group
About the Role
Zebra Global Architecture is seeking a detailed, analytical, and collaborative Project Accountant to join their team in Scottsdale, Arizona. This role involves managing the full financial lifecycle of architectural projects, from initial setup through invoicing, reporting, and closeout. The successful candidate will partner with project managers and leadership to monitor budgets, ensure profitability, and provide actionable financial insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate and complete project financial records from initial setup through financial closeout.
- Establish project accounting information including budgets, contract values, billing schedules, and project phases.
- Monitor project budgets, actual costs, labor utilization, expenses, revenue, and profitability.
- Review project financial performance to identify variances, cost discrepancies, trends, and financial risks.
- Support month-end project accounting activities and financial reporting.
- Track project budgets against actual expenditures and committed costs.
- Analyze project profitability, labor costs, and overall financial performance.
- Communicate findings regarding variances to project leadership and assist in improving margins.
- Partner with project managers to review financial status, remaining budgets, and anticipated costs to complete.
- Assist project teams in understanding the financial implications of scope changes and amendments.
- Prepare and maintain financial forecasts, including estimated cost to complete and revenue at completion.
- Support revenue recognition and monitor work-in-progress, earned revenue, and unbilled revenue.
- Assist with percentage-of-completion and cost-to-cost accounting methodologies.
- Support accurate and timely project invoicing and review billing information for accuracy.
- Resolve billing discrepancies and monitor outstanding receivables.
- Review contract values, amendments, and change orders.
- Maintain data integrity within Deltek Vantagepoint and utilize dashboards to evaluate performance.
- Prepare Excel-based financial analyses and reports for leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 3–5 years of accounting experience, preferably within architecture, engineering, construction, or professional services.
- Strong understanding of project accounting, revenue recognition, accounts receivable, and financial reporting.
- Experience managing or analyzing project budgets, contract values, billing schedules, and project profitability.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel including pivot tables, lookup functions, and financial analysis.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to financial accuracy.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, competing deadlines, and changing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with project managers, finance teams, and company leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Deltek Vantagepoint for project accounting and financial reporting.
- Previous accounting experience with an architecture and engineering firm.
- Working knowledge of ASC 606 revenue recognition principles for fixed-fee and multi-phase projects.
- Experience with percentage-of-completion or cost-to-cost revenue recognition methodologies.
- Familiarity with work-in-progress reporting, project forecasting, and earned revenue analysis.
- Experience reviewing professional services contracts, amendments, and change orders.
- Understanding of project-level financial metrics, labor utilization, and profitability drivers.
About Zebra
Zebra is a global design firm established over 25 years ago in London by leading in-house brand experts. The firm transforms spaces into commercial opportunities through cutting-edge design, cultural knowhow, and invested partnerships, with offices across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Zebra creates environments formulated to evoke mood and feeling across sectors including hotels, branded residences, retail, restaurant spaces, offices, and airports. Their approach focuses on connecting brand, function, location, and end-user, guided by values of trust, teamwork, flexibility, and creative expression.
About Luxus Group
Luxus Group is an exclusive AEC recruiting firm managing this search on behalf of Zebra. We partner with the most prestigious structural, civil, and architectural firms in the country to connect top-tier talent with legacy-building opportunities. Not the perfect fit for this role? We still want to hear from you. Our network is constantly expanding with exclusive, unlisted positions across the AEC sector. Connect with us today to discuss your career trajectory.
