ABOUT REPUBLIC HOMEBUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Republic Homebuilding & Renovations is a design-build residential construction and remodeling firm based in Webster, Texas, serving homeowners throughout the Greater Houston area. We specialize in high-quality renovations, additions, and custom residential projects, combining thoughtful design, disciplined project management, and clear communication.
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.
This is a fully remote role for a candidate based in the Philippines, working United States Central Time hours.
ABOUT THIS ROLE — PLEASE READ THIS PART
This is not a data-entry position. 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 with you about something most job posts leave out: our historical books need cleanup work. 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 perfectly clean system, and we are not pretending otherwise.
If that sounds like the kind of problem you enjoy solving, 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
• 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 deciding which job a cost belongs to at the time you record it
• QuickBooks Online experience
STRONGLY PREFERRED
• Construction, remodeling, or contracting industry 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) licence
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 internet connection
• Backup power supply
• Reliable computer plus a backup device
• Willingness to use screenshot monitoring software on work computers
• This is a full-time, exclusive role. You may not hold another job or client engagement while employed here.
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 when 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 differences
• Produce per-job cost reporting the project team can actually 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 accounts
• 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 14 — 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 working hours, clear expectations, and deliverables you can point to
• Direct access to the company President. No layers
• Genuine US construction accounting experience: job costing, WIP, percentage-of-completion
SCHEDULE
Monday to Friday, 9:30 PM to 6:30 AM Philippine time (8:30 AM to 5:30 PM US Central), with one hour unpaid lunch. 40 hours per week.
OUR HIRING PROCESS
1. Resume and cover letter 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
Email your resume and cover letter to [APPLICATION EMAIL].
Use this exact subject line:
Accounting Manager — [Your Full Name]
Attach your resume as a PDF.
In your cover letter, answer these three questions directly. Applications that do not answer all three will not be reviewed.
1. Describe the last month-end close you personally owned. What company or client, what accounting software, what was on your checklist, and what day of the month did you finish?
2. When you enter a vendor bill, how do you decide which job it belongs to? And 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.
Short, specific answers are better than long general ones. We are looking for what you actually did, not what you know about in principle.