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When to use a project accountant on a job?

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We are a general contractor/construction management group that does projects ranging between $5M and $100M. It's a challenge for us to manage change orders, vendor/sub pay apps, lien waiver collection, submitting owner billing, etc., and generally tracking the dollars & cents & risk as it winds its way through the job. Currently, we leave this to the project managers, who collaborate with the accounting folks in the back office. We're thinking about creating a "project accountant" position to run point on this stuff. What is the best way to think about this position? To set it up? When does it make financial sense to have a position like this? What kind of person fills this role? What would this role report to? Etc.

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