Trane Technologies US | Project Accountant - Stellar Energy

Responsibilities

• This role serves as the key financial partner to the operations, engineering, and project management teams.
• The Project Accountant is responsible for executing project-based financial controls, recasting and managing complex project budgets, executing the monthly Work-in-Progress (WIP) cycle, and ensuring accurate percentage-of-completion (POC) conversion and revenue recognition.
• Execute Monthly & Quarterly Closings: Manage the end-to-end close and reporting cycle with a team of peer project accountants.
• Coordinate with Project Managers to confirm cost incurred is properly reflected each period to ensure GAAP-compliant cost and revenue recognition.
• Lead Budget Recasting & Project Costing: Analyze, recast, and maintain multi-million-dollar project budgets and dynamic forecasts in JD Edwards.
• Monitor purchase orders (POs) across sites and integrate new client POs into master tracking.
• Execute detailed variance analysis with cross functional partnership: Prepare and deliver insights on project forecast change drivers in materials, labor, and overhead assumptions by partnering cross functionally across other areas of Finance, PGT, Operations, and project management.
• Support Ad-Hoc Corporate Audits & Compliance: Establish and maintain robust internal controls, ensuring alignment with Trane Technologies’ financial policies (FICAPs, SICs) and supporting internal/external audit requirements with a particular focus on Percentage of Completion related controls.

Requirements

• Professional certification (e.g., CPA, CMA, or MBA) or progress toward one is highly desired.
• Experience: Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in project accounting, construction accounting, or cost accounting within a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• JDE Edwards system experience is highly desired.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is a must (experience managing complex formulas, VLOOKUPs, and pivot tables).
• Exposure to corporate ERP systems (such as JDE or Oracle), One Stream, Tableau, and AI tools is preferred.
• Analytical Rigor: A proven ability to perform deep-dive variance analysis, identify Trial Balance mapping mismatches, and resolve system reconciliation challenges.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships and influence project managers, estimators, and plant operations teams in a highly matrixed environment.
• Fiduciary Ownership: Uncompromising integrity with a deep understanding of percentage-of-completion (POC) accounting rules, US GAAP, and project-level internal controls.

Trane Technologies plc

Trane Technologies traces its roots to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where James Trane opened a plumbing shop in 1885; he and his son Reuben incorporated The Trane Company in 1913. Trane was later owned by American Standard and was bought by Ingersoll Rand in 2008. In March 2020 Ingersoll-Rand plc spun off its industrial business, which merged with Gardner Denver, and the remaining climate business was renamed Trane Technologies plc. Domiciled in Ireland, with its head office in Swords, County Dublin, it is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as TT. Its two brands are Trane, which makes heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems and services for buildings and homes, and Thermo King, which makes refrigeration units for trucks, trailers and other transport.

• Industry: Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems and services (Trane) and transport refrigeration (Thermo King)
• Headquarters: Swords, County Dublin, Ireland (listed on the NYSE as TT)