Cost Accounting Specialist

If you are looking for a new challenge and want to help shape the future of STRABAG, take a look at the job description below. Please note that the Pay range for this role is between $67,000- $75,000 annually, with final compensation determined by skills, experience, and role requirements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Experience with cost centers, cost accounting, invoicing, and monthly accruals.

Strong full-cycle accounting background: AP/AR, journal entries, reconciliations, multi-currency and intercompany transactions.

Comfortable managing multiple concurrent cost centers of varying duration and experienced with internal/intercompany cost allocation and invoicing.

Hands-on proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics, including invoice processing, payment runs, and vendor management.

Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including data manipulation and reporting.

Background in financial or cost accounting, preferably within the construction industry.

Fluent in English, written and verbal.

Sharp attention to detail with the organizational skills to manage multiple priorities under deadline pressure.

Comfortable making sound decisions independently while coordinating with multiple project teams.

Trustworthy with confidential financial information.

Results-focused, with a bias toward resolving issues rather than escalating them.

Qualifications:

3-5 years of relevant experience in accounts payable/receivable, cost accounting, or project accounting, with construction industry experience considered a strong asset.

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Economics, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience with Microsoft Dynamics would be strongly considered an asset.

STRABAG - Work On Progress:
Becoming Climate Neutral by 2040.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Cost Center Management (Portfolio-Wide)
Maintain the financial integrity of all active project cost centers by ensuring the accurate, complete, and timely recording and allocation of costs, revenues, accruals, and related project transactions.

Monitor head office (non-project) cost centers where staff costs and company overhead are recorded.

Prepare and process internal invoicing to allocate costs between head office and project cost centers, and between project cost centers where required.

Accounts Payable & Receivable Verify and process accounts payable invoices across active projects, with a strong focus on subcontractors and suppliers

Verify and process accounts receivable invoices and prepare outgoing client invoicing

Review and validate vendor invoices and payment allocations, ensuring all amounts are accurately recorded against the correct vendor accounts before payments are approved and released.

Validating and preparing invoices for payment according to contract and PO terms and monitor available payment discounts.

Reviewing foreign-currency group costs and allocating them correctly.

Reconcile vendor accounts by verifying monthly statements and related transactions.

Monitor aged accounts payable and accounts receivable balances across all cost centers.

Resolve purchase order, invoice, and payment discrepancies.

Process staff expense claims, including corporate credit card expenses; prepare and verify complete backup documentation and expense reports for reconciliation and approval.

Maintain transaction backups, financial files, and accounting records in the system.

Cost Accounting & Accruals Perform all aspects of cost accounting, including monthly accruals, within Microsoft Dynamics, across all active project and head office cost centers.

Maintain accurate records in Microsoft Dynamics and ensure data reconciles with the group’s AS4U system.

Lead monthly closing of project and head office cost centers.

Execute month-end close activities including reconciliations, variance analysis, and forecasting support.

Cost Control & Reporting Generate monthly performance reports in cooperation with the project management team for each active project.

Track project costs and revenue against budget across the portfolio and flag variances early.

Assist in managing short-…