Project Accounting Analyst, Senior
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- Mississauga, ON
- $71,000-121,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Learn and gain a deep understanding of the company corporate finance and project operational systems and procedures as they apply to projects
- Help maintain, develop and refine project reporting tools and templates, currently primarily excel based
- Assist in various project reviews, using corporate financial systems and tools as well as in collaboration with other corporate teams, business unit management, and project management
- Help in reporting of results of global major project reviews
- Assist and help coordinate information around global major projects for the annual external financial statement audit
- Other duties that may arise
- Understand the JV agreement in areas of project financial management and accounting to properly execute contractual deliverables
- Understand corporate financial systems (SAP) and company procedures to help facilitate project execution of the JV accounting deliverables
- Collaborate with project and corporate teams of both JV partners to ensure proper data capture into the JV systems for project invoicing, profit distribution, payments and financial reporting
- Execute the JV accounting in accordance with IFRS standards and corporate policies, treating the JV as a separate company with its own general ledger, receivables, payables, balance sheet, income statement, etc.
- Prepare monthly financial statements for distribution to JV Executive Committee members, and corporate teams
- Prepare various project analysis that support the project and corporate teams understand their share participation and expected fees as part of the monthly financial reporting
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or other relevant disciplines
- Preferably a recognized accounting designation (e.g. CPA/CA/CMA/CGA) and/or AACE cost control certification (CCP)
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience, preferably in engineering and construction company environments
- Extensive exposure and/or experience in project accounting, project financial controls and reporting, commercial/contract review and analysis in lumpsum and turnkey projects, cost reimbursables and fixed priced projects, consortium and alliance contracts, design-build and multinational joint venture projects.
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Proficient computer skills: Company reporting systems (SAP) and other standard MS Office tools
- Advanced level Excel skills (Power BI - good to have)
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to conduct comprehensive financial analysis, assessment and evaluation of projects and to identify potentially contentious issues and over-runs that may expose the company to financial risks
- Knowledge and/or experience in project accounting, analysis, controllership, risk management and reporting best practices in large, complex multi-billion-dollar projects in mining, metals, infrastructure and energy environments.
- Knowledge and/or exposure to the complexities of project invoicing, outstanding billed and unbilled reporting etc.
- Knowledge of/or curiosity to learn project management and cost management cycles (cost baseline, variance analysis, forecasting EAC, contingencies and reserves etc.), to help understand projects better in project reviews.
- Self starter that has good attention to detail
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