Accounting Manager — Month-End Close & Job Costing (US Construction, Night Shift)

Republic Homebuilding and Renovations is a design-build residential
construction and remodeling firm in Webster, Texas, USA, serving
homeowners across the Greater Houston area. We run about ten active
jobs at a time, ranging from $20,000 to $300,000. We use QuickBooks
Online for accounting and JobTread for project management and job
costing.

We are hiring one Accounting Manager. This is a fully remote role for
someone based in the Philippines, working United States Central Time
hours.


READ THIS BEFORE YOU APPLY

We would rather you rule yourself out now than at offer stage.

- This is a night shift, permanently. 9:30 PM to 6:30 AM Philippine
time, Monday to Friday, with one hour unpaid lunch.
- This is a direct engagement with a US company. You would work as an
independent contractor, not as an employee under Philippine labor
law. You are responsible for your own taxes and government
contributions.
- We do NOT provide SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, or HMO. Our pay is set
above the local market rate specifically because of this. Please
factor it into your decision.
- This is exclusive and full time. You may not hold another job or
client engagement while working with us. You will be asked to list
every current engagement in your application.
- We use screenshot monitoring software on work computers.

Pay is $9.00 to $12.00 per hour depending on experience, 40 hours per
week. At today's rate that is roughly PHP 95,700 to PHP 127,500 per
month. Because pay is in US dollars, the peso value moves with the
exchange rate. We also pay a year-end bonus equal to one month's pay,
prorated by month of hire.


THIS IS NOT A DATA-ENTRY JOB

You will own the accounting function.

We have separate staff who enter bills, send invoices, chase
documents, and track purchase orders. Your job is to own the close,
own the reconciliations, own the job cost data, and review their work
- not to do it yourself.

We are also going to be straightforward about something most job posts
leave out: our historical books need cleanup. Costs have not been
consistently coded to the right jobs, and some accounts need to be
reorganized. Your first ninety days include a defined cleanup project
alongside normal monthly work. You will not be inheriting a clean
system and we are not pretending otherwise.

If that is the kind of problem you enjoy, we want to hear from you. If
it sounds like a headache, this is not the right role for you, and
that is fine.


REQUIREMENTS - ALL FOUR ARE REQUIRED

- Bachelor's degree in Accountancy
- 3+ years of accounting experience, including at least one year where
you were personally responsible for closing the books every month.
Not assisting someone else who closed them.
- Experience assigning costs to specific projects or jobs, including
d ---------- which job a cost belongs to at the time you record it
- QuickBooks Online experience


STRONGLY PREFERRED

- Construction, remodeling, or contracting experience, especially US
residential
- Experience with a project management or job-costing system alongside
the accounting system (JobTread, Buildertrend, Procore, CoConstruct,
or similar)
- Experience producing a monthly Work in Progress (WIP) schedule using
percentage-of-completion
- Experience closing books for more than one related entity, including
intercompany transactions
- QuickBooks Online Advanced Certification / ProAdvisor
- CPA (PRC) license

If you do not have every item on the preferred list, apply anyway. The
four requirements above are what matter.


WORK SETUP REQUIREMENTS

- Reliable high-speed internet AND a reliable backup connection
- Backup power supply
- Reliable computer plus a backup device
- Willingness to use screenshot monitoring software


WHAT YOU WILL OWN

Monthly close
- Reconcile all bank, credit card, and loan accounts every month
- Produce the monthly financial package: profit and loss, balance
sheet, cash flow statement
- Produce a monthly Work in Progress (WIP) schedule
- Prepare monthly reporting packages required by outside parties
- Close on a published schedule, not "when it gets done"

Job costing
- Ensure every cost is coded to the correct job and correct cost type
at the time it is recorded
- Maintain a clean separation between job costs and company overhead,
and apply it consistently
- Reconcile job cost data in QuickBooks against JobTread and resolve
the differences
- Produce per-job cost reporting the project team can rely on

Bank feed and payables
- You are the only person who touches the bank feed. Bank feed items
must be matched to existing bills before they are categorized, never
entered as new expenses when a bill already exists
- Maintain accounts payable and review vendor bills entered by admin
staff
- Weekly review for duplicate or miscoded transactions

Other
- Run payroll and maintain payroll records
- Maintain the chart of accounts. You are the only person who may add
or change an account
- Review the work of the admin staff who enter bills and prepare
invoices
- Reconciliation work extends to two affiliated partnerships in
addition to the main company


YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS

We measure this role on deliverables, not on time served.

- By Day 21: a written month-end close procedure, in your own words,
that someone else could follow
- By Day 45: first complete set of reconciliations across all bank,
credit card, and loan accounts
- By Day 75: first complete monthly financial package, delivered on
schedule
- By Day 90: agreed cleanup milestones met, and job cost data usable
for estimating


WHY YOU WILL LIKE WORKING HERE

- Real ownership. You are the accounting function, not a task-taker
- A defined problem with a defined finish line, and a company that
already knows what is broken
- Admin support, so you are not buried in data entry
- Clear hours, clear expectations, deliverables you can point to
- Direct access to the company President. No layers
- Genuine US construction accounting experience: job costing, WIP,
percentage-of-completion


OUR HIRING PROCESS

1. Application review
2. Short introductory video call
3. Paid two-hour work sample - a real reconciliation and job-costing
exercise. We pay you at the role's hourly rate for your time
whether or not we make an offer. Finalists only.
4. Reference check with a direct supervisor from a recent role
5. Offer

We do this because we would rather see how you work than hear about
it.


HOW TO APPLY - FOLLOW THIS EXACTLY

Applications that do not follow these instructions will not be read.
This is deliberate. Attention to instructions is part of the job.

Start your application message with this exact line:

Accounting Manager - [Your Full Name]

Then answer these four questions, in order, numbered. Short and
specific beats long and general. We are looking for what you actually
did, not what you know about in principle.

1. Describe the last month-end close you personally owned. What
company or client, what accounting software, and what day of the
month did you finish?

2. When you enter a vendor bill, how do you d ---------- which job it
belongs to? What do you do when you genuinely cannot tell?

3. List every job, client, or engagement you currently hold, and the
hours per week you spend on each. Include part-time and freelance
work.

4. What is your degree, from which school, and what year?

Provide us a link to your resume in PDF format.