Controller Services for Electrical Contractors

Someone has to own the WIP schedule

On project work, billing and cost march to different drummers, and the work-in-progress schedule is what reconciles them — exposing the over-billings that flatter a month and the under-billings that mean you're financing the customer. Kept loosely, the WIP lies; kept by a controller, it's the report your surety and your lender actually respect.

Underneath it sits job-margin review: change orders that never got billed, material coded to the wrong job, estimate-to-actual fade. A controller catches those in the monthly review instead of at year-end when it's too late to bill anyone.

What a controller adds over a bookkeeper

A bookkeeper records the transactions. A controller makes them right and turns them into a reviewed package: an accurate WIP, job-level P&Ls, backlog reporting, and surety-ready financials. That's the layer between having numbers and being able to bond the next job.

As the backlog grows, standardized job reporting lets you see which projects and which PMs actually make money — not one blended margin that hides the job quietly going sideways.

How Kaizen runs it

We sit on top of your bookkeeping — ours or yours — and run a documented monthly close, WIP schedule included, on the same date every month. Costs and billings get tied to each job so the schedule reconciles instead of floating.

Then the improvement part we're named for: each close the WIP gets more accurate and the review catches more before it reaches you. Controller judgment, minus the salary and the eventual departure.

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