What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Accountant 2025 position at De Young Properties?
Cost Accountant
De Young Properties, a family-owned company with 50 years of experience, is a local homebuilder located in Fresno, CA. We're proud to have been recognized as the 1st place recipient in The Fresno Business Journal’s 'Best of Central Valley Business Awards' for Best Company to Work For, making it a total of 3 times receiving this prestigious honor. We’re honored and humbled, as this recognition serves as a welcome reminder of why we do what we do – creating dream-fulfilling new homes our homeowners will enjoy for many years to come!
We are currently seeking a Cost Accountant to join our dynamic accounting team at our corporate office. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field, or a minimum of three years of relevant accounting experience. Advanced Excel skills and strong attention to detail are required. This is a full-time position with a competitive benefit package. The pay range for this position is $29-33/hourly.
Primary Responsibilities:
1. Construction Payables & Invoice Processing
- Review, code, and process all land development and vertical construction invoices and purchase orders, ensuring they are accurately allocated to the appropriate tracts, lots, and cost categories.
- Verify invoices against contracts and resolve discrepancies or variances in scope, pricing, or billing.
- Manage payment processing, including transfers, generating checks and ACH transactions, and coordinating lien release collection and approval routing.
- Compile financial documentation to support line-of-credit draw requests.
2. Job Cost Management & Analysis
- Compare actual costs for personal selections against customer sales pricing to validate margin performance.
- Identify and investigate discrepancies between budgeted, actual, and sales amounts for both base house and option upgrades.
- Create and update base house budgets; generate detailed job cost and variance reports.
- Collaborate with the land and purchasing teams to ensure proper alignment between contracts, invoices, and cost entries. Collaborate to streamline job costing and invoice workflows.
3. Cost System Administration (WMS)
- Maintain accurate costing and pricing data in the WMS system for all trade partners and cost codes.
- Set up new communities, phases, lots, plans, elevations, and personal selection options in WMS.
- Resolve data discrepancies between WMS and Sage accounting software to ensure alignment.
5. General Accounting Functions
- Reconcile construction costs for land development, vertical construction, indirect costs and warranty to the general ledger for each tract.
- Prepare and post month end journal entries.
- Act as a backup for the Accounts Payable Specialist.
- Participate in the design and implementation of a new ERP system to support business growth and operational effectiveness.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
- A supportive and positive work environment
Ready to Apply?
If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you! Submit your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting your experience and what excites you about joining De Young Properties.
De Young Properties is an equal opportunity employer.
Salary : $29 - $33
