Joint Venture Project Accountant

Job Title: Joint Venture Project Accountant

Job Description

The Joint Venture Project Accountant manages the full-cycle billing process for joint venture projects, ensuring accurate and timely invoicing in accordance with contract terms. This role partners closely with project managers and joint venture stakeholders to compile labor, expense, and subcontractor data, allocate costs appropriately across entities, and maintain detailed billing schedules and reconciliations. The position requires strong technical billing expertise, advanced Excel skills, and proficiency with large-scale ERP systems to support complex, high-value engineering or architecture projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full-cycle billing process for joint venture projects, from data collection through invoice issuance.
• Review and interpret joint venture contracts to ensure billing aligns with agreed terms and conditions.
• Compile labor, expense, and subcontractor data from multiple sources and validate accuracy prior to billing.
• Allocate project costs appropriately across joint venture entities in accordance with contract requirements and accounting standards.
• Prepare, maintain, and update detailed billing schedules for multiple joint venture projects.
• Perform regular reconciliations of billed amounts, costs, and revenue to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Collaborate closely with project managers and joint venture stakeholders to resolve billing issues and clarify project financials.
• Utilize advanced Excel functions, including pivot tables and VLOOKUPs, to analyze billing data and support reporting.
• Enter, review, and maintain billing and project financial information within a large-scale ERP system.
• Monitor billing timelines and ensure invoices are prepared and submitted accurately and on schedule.
• Support internal and external inquiries related to project billing and joint venture financials.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of billing processes and controls for joint venture projects.

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of project billing experience for joint venture projects.
• Proven experience working for an engineering or architecture company with revenue over $100 million.
• Strong experience in billing for joint ventures, including cost allocation and contract-based invoicing.
• Ability to create and use pivot tables in Excel for data analysis and reporting.
• Ability to use VLOOKUP functions in Excel to reconcile and validate billing data.
• Proficiency with large-scale ERP systems such as Deltek, SAGE, SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in handling complex billing data.
• Ability to interpret and review contracts to ensure proper billing treatment.
• Effective collaboration skills to work closely with project managers and joint venture stakeholders.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint is a strong plus.
• Prior experience supporting project billing in a professional services environment, particularly engineering or architecture.
• Comfort working with high-volume, high-value projects and complex organizational structures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills related to project financials and billing.
• Ability to adapt to different time zones and collaborate with distributed teams in a remote setting.

Work Environment

This role is 100% remote and open to candidates in any time zone, offering flexibility in work location and schedule alignment. You will work in a fully virtual environment, collaborating with project managers and stakeholders through digital communication and collaboration tools. The organization uses large-scale ERP systems such as Deltek, SAGE, SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms, along with advanced Excel-based reporting and analysis. The company provides a stable and supportive environment, with annual salary increases upon conversion to a permanent role and a strong track record of contractor satisfaction.

This position is moving extremely fast as this is an urgent need for the client. If interested, please send over your most up to date resume to ktrivigno @astoncarter.com along with your availability for a 10-minute phone call. 

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Camp Hill, PA.

The pay range for this position is $30.00 - $32.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 27, 2026.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.