Accountant-CPA required (bookkeeping as well)

US CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE BOOKKEEPER / CPA (QUICKBOOKS)
Full-time, remote, long-term

We're a US commercial general contractor plus a real estate investment and
property-management group (multiple companies), based in New York. We're
looking for a sharp, detail-obsessed bookkeeper — CPA required — who already
knows US construction and real estate accounting. This is a long-term seat for
the right person, with room to grow into a lead accounting role.

This is NOT general/retail bookkeeping. If you have not done job costing and
WIP for a US construction company, this role is not for you.

MUST-HAVE (do not apply without these):

• CPA (Philippine CPA is fine)
• 3+ years bookkeeping/accounting for US CLIENTS
• Real, hands-on US CONSTRUCTION accounting experience:

job costing, cost codes, WIP schedules, over/under-billing, retainage

• US REAL ESTATE accounting experience:

property-level P&Ls, owner statements, security-deposit ledgers, depreciation

• Advanced QuickBooks Online (Sage / Foundation / Knowify a big plus)
• Strong Excel/Google Sheets
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Able to overlap at least 4 hours with US Eastern time (8am-12pm ET)

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Code all costs to the correct job and cost code; keep job-cost reports clean
• Build and maintain WIP schedules; flag underbilled or margin-fading jobs
• Bank and credit-card reconciliations, AP/AR, progress billing (AIA G702/G703)
• Track retainage receivable and payable separately
• Sub compliance: collect COIs, W-9s, lien waivers; prepare 1099s
• Real estate books: property P&Ls, owner statements, seller-note amortization
• Prepare clean month-end packages for our US CPA firm

WHAT WE OFFER:
-17-20 an hour USD

• Stable, long-term, full-time work with a growing US company
• Competitive pay based on experience
• Clear systems and a real path to a lead accounting role

HOW TO APPLY (follow exactly — we ignore applications that don't):
Start your message with the word LEDGER. Then answer:
1. Name the largest US construction client you've kept books for, and what
software you ran their WIP in.
2. In one or two sentences: what does a consistently UNDERBILLED job tell you?
3. Your available hours in US Eastern time.

Applicants who follow these steps and know their WIP will be moved to a short
paid test project.