Senior Project Accountant

Job Description:

Is Kymanox the right fit for you?

You want to make a difference and have an impact…

You enjoy having an influence in your day-to-day work…

You are motivated by working alongside a team filled with

subject matter experts who will help you learn and grow…

You wake up every day and do what you do

… because patients deserve better.

If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Position summary

The Senior Project / Revenue Accountant owns revenue recognition and project accounting for company's contracts, ensuring results are accurate, timely, and compliant with ASC 606. The role partners with Project Management, Sales, Operations, and FP&A to translate to ensure fixed price and T&M contracts are accounted for properly. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with visibility to the Controller and the external auditors.

Key responsibilities

• Set up new projects and contracts in the ERP, including budgets, billing terms, and cost codes.
• Track and review project costs (labor, materials, subcontractors, overhead allocations) for accuracy and proper coding.
• Prepare and issue project invoices, including progress, milestone, time-and-materials, and billings.
• Maintain WIP schedules and recognize revenue over time under ASC 606 (percentage of completion), including over/under billings.
• Review estimates-at-completion with project managers.
• Post project-related journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations as part of month-end close.
• Review contracts and change orders for accounting impact and compliance with billing and reporting terms
• Manage project closeout: final billing, retainage collection, and reconciling costs to the contract.
• Prepare audit schedules for project revenue, WIP, and contract balances.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• Industry experience in a professional services organization.
• 4+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 2 years focused on revenue or project accounting.
• Experience with percent-of-completion (cost-to-cost) accounting and estimate-at-completion reviews.
• Advanced Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, large data sets).
• Experience working with auditors and documenting internal controls.
• Clear communicator who can explain accounting outcomes to non-finance partners.

Desired Aptitude and Skill Set

• Detail-oriented
• Strong organizational skills and verbal/written communication skills
• Highly motivated self-starter with a sense of ownership and willingness to learn
• Thrive in a fast-paced, growing, and dynamic work environment
• Ability to form partnerships with internal and client stakeholders
• Seasoned soft skills (i.e., high EQ)
• Comfortable leading, delegating to, and developing team members
• Technology savvy

Travel

Hybrid in our RTP headquarters.

Career Development

The position will evolve over time and more responsibilities may be added. Since Kymanox is a growing company, there are opportunities for advancement both within the currently defined role and in other functions within the organization.

Compensation

Base salary is commensurate with experience, qualifications, and other intangibles evident during the interview process – as well as market conditions. Eligible for incentive program after 6 months of outstanding work.

Benefits

Medical healthcare including dental and vision, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, matching 401(k) retirement plan, continuing education assistance, and other benefits.

About Kymanox

Join Kymanox – a life sciences professional services company dedicated to life sciences who has successfully delivered over 4000 projects across 20+ countries. Become a member of a dynamic, fulfilling team that helps a broad range of life science products get to market more quickly, more affordably, and with the highest quality and safety standards possible in today’s biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and combination product industries. With a reputation of providing unparalleled professional services and our highly collaborative team of engineering, compliance, and project management experts, Kymanox provides an outstanding opportunity for learning and career advancement. Kymanox encourages team members, especially new graduates, and young professionals, to work on a variety of projects to gain increased learnings in Kymanox’s service offerings and the life science industry as a whole.

Kymanox is looking for motivated individuals who want to solve problems in the life science industries while doing the work they love and helping get modern medicines that enhance and save patient lives to market. Kymanox provides professional services related to engineering, compliance, and project management. We service clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to virtual start-up companies. The company was founded in 2004 and has been growing steadily since its inception. Our corporate HQ is based in Research Triangle Park, NC.

To learn more about our company, please visit our website: Life Science Solutions | Kymanox

Kymanox is an equal-opportunity employer and works diligently to protect the rights of job seekers by following all local, state, and federal laws as well as best Human Resource (HR) practices in the Life Science industry.