Project Accountant

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Your Opportunity Take the first step towards designing your career with Stantec. We have an exciting opportunity for you tojoin our team as a Project Accountant (PA). Reporting to a Project Accounting Lead (PAL), in this roleyou will be responsible for overall financial management of projects throughout their lifecycle by ensuring proper set up, maintenance, invoicing and project closure in accordance with the contractual requirements and with Stantec's controls, policies and practices.

Your

Key Responsibilities Financial management of a portfolio of projects assigned by the Project Accounting Lead (PAL).
• Provide excellent customer service and a customer-centric focus, while providing a quality ofwork that consistently meets or exceeds expectations.
• Build strong relationships with and serve as a trusted advisor to our internal business partners including Project Managers (PM) and Project Manager Assistants (PMA).
• Build and maintain relationships with other Project Accountants and other Financial Service Team(FST) members, including Finance Managers, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, toensure collaborative teamwork.
• Independently organize and prioritize workload to ensure timely completion of deliverables.

Escalate concerns/issues to PAL as required.
• Implement process or procedural changes identified and rolled out by management.
• Collaborate with PM and PMA to recommend an appropriate work breakdown structure (WBS) that will enhance reporting and invoicing requirements.
• Evaluate project setup and budget change documentation, including client contract and information provided by the PM or PMA to ensure compliance with contractual requirements,internal Stantec controls and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This includes review of contracts/agreements for proper fiscal authority, invoicing requirements, variable revenue, or unusual contract terms.
• Ensure projects are setup in Oracle with the correct client approved value, billing rates and other variables required to ensure proper revenue recognition per Stantec policy.
• Collaborate with PM and PMAs to generate, finalize and issue client invoices, ensuring accuracy and compliance with the contractual terms for each project.
• Collaborate with Stantec’s RNet finance team in Pune, India to ensure timely delivery and accurate completion of tasks they support.
• Partner with PMs to perform ad hoc functions as requested such as subcontract tracking,preparing progress reports, managing client audits, financial analysis, write offs, monitoring accounts receivable aging and supporting collection of invoice payments, etc.
• Monthly review of budget fee reporting to ensure the accuracy of work in progress (WIP) and deferred revenue on assigned projects.
• Provide explanation for significant aged WIP to ensure transparency to operations management.
• Ensure project close out procedures are completed timely.
• Prepare internal and external audit support packages and respond to inquiries from PA Leadership and Financial Managers.
• Contribute to the project accounting self-audit program designed to test internal controls.
• Partner with PMs to ensure the custom rates and…