
Project Accountant
- Calgary, AB
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading comprehensive benefits program
- Promotion from within
- Awarded company culture
- Flexible work/life balance
- Perform detailed variance analysis for projects on a monthly basis to ensure projects remain on budget, or strategize on ways to improve profitability, together with the Project Managers
- Hold monthly meetings with Project Managers to determine monthly invoicing requirements, and support AR to ensure invoices are received timely
- Assist in preparing compliance documentation, including collection of waivers, certificates of insurance, bonding, amongst others
- Review construction contracts and ensure project is accurately set-up in the system, including contract value, costs, division, branch, etc.
- Importing of quotes from quoting software into ERP
- Produce customer invoices/project draws for a variety of projects, ensuring formatting is compliant with contract terms and customer specifications, including preparation of required backup to accompany invoice
- Supporting large, enterprise customers through gathering backup pertaining to cost-plus contracts
- Entering change orders into the system in order to update contract values and costs
- Performing cost analysis on projects to create projections on remaining costs to complete
- Create and provide job costing reports to project managers to assist them in updating estimates on budget projections
- Work directly with customers to ensure invoices have been received, approved, and actioned
- Assist with ad-hoc projects and other duties as required
- Minimum 1 year of experience performing in a project accounting role, or similar
- Experience with progress draw invoicing
- Experience using billing portals
- Intermediate excel skills
- Post-secondary education in accounting, an asset
- Construction project accounting knowledge, specifically around long-term contracts (WIP), an asset
- Detail oriented, organized, able to problem solve, multitask, work effectively under pressure, meet deadlines and prioritize workload
- Ability to effectively work in a team environment
- Self-starter and able to take initiative
- Receptive to coaching and willing to learn and develop skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Eager to learn and able to apply newly acquired skills for immediate results
We are sorry but this recruiter does not accept applications from abroad.