Job description
Senior Project Accountant – Vancouver, Calgary or GTA - ( AUS0006XS )
If you’re like us, you don’t have much time for the way things are.
Ausenco is a global company redefining what’s possible. Our team is based across 26 offices in 14 countries, with projects in over 80 locations worldwide. Combining our deep technical expertise with a 30-year track record, we deliver innovative, value-add consulting studies, project delivery, asset operations and maintenance solutions to the mining & metals, oil & gas, and industrial sectors.
Currently, we have an exciting opportunity for a customer focused, technically experienced Project Accountant who wants to work with world-class clients to bring solutions that are as imaginative as they are inspiring. You will provide financial advice and analysis to support business decision making throughout the contracts for complex EPC projects.
About the role
- Timely and accurate preparation of project client invoices in accordance with contractual obligations and business SLA’s.
- Project accounting activities for client invoices including coding and editing time and expense transactions.
- Understanding project contracts, budgets, and billing status, to assist managing project billing activities.
- New project setups and ongoing project setup maintenance in accordance with contract terms and change orders.
- Currency reconciliation and preparing cashflows in multiple currencies.
- Ensuring accurate GST/VAT treatment.
- Coordinating vendor payments/holdbacks.
- Interpret, compile and analyze project financial data to generate reports, particularly using Excel.
- Assisting with other accounting and administrative projects as assigned.
- Establish strong working relationships with project team to ensure accurate reporting in non-project systems.
About you
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in an accounting role, with a meaningful focus on client billing in a professional services industry.
- Post-secondary education coupled with enrollment in the CPA program is an asset.
- Demonstrated knowledge in large project environment, preferably in EPC context. Engineering and design/build experience would be an asset.
- General understanding of project controls, purchasing, and project cost reporting functions working in multiple currencies.
- Ability to prioritize and process large volumes of work accurately and efficiently.
- Ability to interpret, analyze, and report on project financial data.
- Ability to read and interpret contracts to set up projects in accordance to commercial terms.
- Strong customer service focus with ability to grow and maintain relationships with Project Managers to effectively invoice their clients.
- A minimum of 3 years large ERP system experience (Oracle preferred).
- Ability to think logically and apply decision making in relation to project accounting responsibilities.
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills with the ability to problem-solve in a collaborative manner.
Working for Ausenco means you won’t settle for the status quo – you’ll be part of a forward-thinking, culturally diverse organisation. We expect our people to deliver outstanding results and will give you the licence to find a better way forward for your clients and stakeholders.
In addition to a competitive remuneration package, we provide employees with a wide range of growth opportunities and training programs to build your skills and pursue your career path.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce As a global company we embrace and encourage diversity in its fullest sense – gender, age, experience, nationality, colour, language, religion, location, disability, education, skills, working styles and time availability. Our work environments are based on mutual trust and respect for the rights and opportunities of every individual.
COVID-19 The healthy and safety of our employees and candidates is our first priority. We closely monitor local, regional, and global conditions related to the pandemic, and your working location and/or roster as advertised in this advert may be temporarily subject to change to adhere to recommendations by health authorities and government regulations.
If this role sounds like you, please submit a detailed application directly to this posting. We thank you for your submission and will contact you if we need further information, or if we wish to progress to interview.
Primary Location : CA-BC-Vancouver Job Posting : Aug 12, 2022
