Cost Accountant

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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">About the Company</span></span></p>\n<p>RNGD is a rapidly scaling organization emerging as a nationally recognized leader in construction through our unique Renegade mindset focused on innovation, creativity, and culture. The team is made up of a highly engaged group of seasoned professionals and emerging leaders. We are creators who believe that what we build drives the growth of our cities and that to fulfill our mission, we must constantly challenge the old way of doing things. Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, we thrive on building communities, building teams, building leaders, and growing the business throughout the Southeast region with additional offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">About the Role</span></span> </p>\n<p>We’re looking for a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Cost Accountant</span> that will support accounting operations for assigned sectors and projects, including payroll review, accounts payable coding, job cost functions, reconciliations, forecasting support, and financial reporting to the Finance Team. This role works closely with Operations and Finance to ensure project financial data is accurate, timely, and aligned with company accounting standards. The Sector Cost Accountant collaborates with Project Executives, Sector Leaders, project teams, and the Finance Department to support daily, weekly, and monthly accounting timelines. This role requires regular travel and jobsite visits to understand project workflows, job-specific requirements, and the financial activity impacting project performance.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Core Responsibilities</span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Financial Oversight and Reporting</em></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Assist with the month-end close process.</li>\n<li>Assist with budget management and budget updates in coordination with Project Executives and the Finance Team.</li>\n<li>Coordinate preparation of financial reports and supporting analysis using multiple software platforms.</li>\n<li>Assist in preparing and communicating subcontractor and vendor good-standing status for assigned projects.</li>\n<li>Assist in preparing supporting documentation for change order processing with Operations.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Project Cost 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may impact project performance.</li>\n<li>Support and drive utilization of company initiatives and technologies that improve financial operations.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Process Improvement</em></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Identify opportunities to create cost efficiencies through process improvement.</li>\n<li>Support development of best practices within the accounting and project cost functions.</li>\n<li>Recommend improvements to invoice review, coding, reporting, reconciliation, and forecasting workflows.</li>\n<li>Collaborate with Finance and Operations to improve consistency, accuracy, and timeliness of project cost information.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Preferred Qualifications</span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.</li>\n<li>Six or more years of 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