Accounting Manager​/Senior Accountant

Dexcent is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager/Senior Accountant to join our team in a full-time capacity. This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative team and play an important role within our organization.

The ideal candidate would reside in Edmonton, AB.

Founded in 2006, Dexcent Inc. (Dexcent) is an engineering consulting firm that provides a range of specialized solutions for clients in a variety of industries throughout the world. Our professionals have modernized IT and OT engineering methodologies into comprehensive solutions, specializing in information analytics, cyber-security, infrastructure, and control systems engineering. As such, we pride ourselves on truly transforming industrial operations to optimize business performance and deliver bottom-line results.

The Accounting Manager / Senior Accountant is the senior financial position within Dexcent and is accountable for the full accounting and financial reporting function. This is a hands-on, working-manager role that combines direct execution of full-cycle accounting with supervision of the Financial Analyst and financial support to the executive and operational teams.

The position leads month-end and year-end close, consolidations, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, banking, compliance, project accounting, and financial systems. They are comfortable working in the details, independently completing critical accounting work, and providing practical financial insight to support sound business decisions.

Detailed duties and responsibilities include:

Financial Reporting and Close

• Own and complete the monthly close process for Canadian and U.S. entities, including journal entries, accruals, allocations, intercompany entries, reconciliations, and consolidation.
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly financial statements and management reporting packages, including cash flow, sales, gross margin, project performance, and other decision-support reporting.
• Analyze actual results against budget and forecast, investigate variances, identify risks and trends, and communicate actionable insights to the President, executives, and operational leaders.
• Maintain complete balance sheet working papers and ensure the general ledger is accurate, supported, and reconciled.
• Lead fiscal year-end close, prepare files and working papers for the external accounting firm, coordinate requests, and record approved year-end adjustments.
• Maintain documented accounting policies, close checklists, recurring deadlines, and appropriate review controls.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Analysis

• Lead the annual budgeting process, including templates, instructions, assumptions, departmental submissions, consolidation, review, and final reporting.
• Maintain rolling forecasts and cash flow forecasts and update them as business conditions change.
• Develop and maintain financial models, business cases, key performance indicators, and management dashboards.
• Provide financial analysis and practical recommendations to support pricing, resource planning, cost management, project decisions, and corporate initiatives.
• Partner with executives and managers to improve forecast accuracy, understand financial performance, and resolve financial issues.

Project Accounting and Commercial Governance

• Ensure projects are set up correctly in the ERP system and that project financial data, billing structures, budgets, and reporting requirements are accurate.
• Oversee revenue recognition, work in progress, unbilled revenue, deferred revenue, project accruals, project profitability, and related reconciliations.
• Provide financial review and input within the commercial governance process, including pricing, margin,…