Senior Accountant

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Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the month-end close by preparing journal entries, accruals, reconciliations and related analysis for project accounting, inventory, fixed assets and intercompany, and assist in the preparation of monthly reporting packages.

• Prepare project revenue recognition under IFRS 15, including percentage-of-completion calculations, deferred revenue and contract balance schedules, and work-in-progress (WIP) reports.

• Maintain project accounting for multi-year transit implementations: track cost to budget, support estimate-at-completion reviews with project managers, and reconcile contract assets and liabilities.

• Account for hardware and spares inventory, including cost flows into projects, perpetual-to-GL reconciliation, cycle counts and year-end obsolescence review.

• Manage fixed asset accounting, including preparing and maintaining detailed continuity schedules.

• Prepare and post intercompany transactions and complete month-end intercompany reconciliations.

• Prepare U.S. sales and use tax filings and 1099 reporting, reconcile related accounts, resolve variances and support sales tax audits.

• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations in BlackLine for project, inventory, fixed asset and intercompany accounts.

• Prepare PBC schedules for the year-end audit and quarterly reviews, and operate key controls in the Risk Control Matrix.

• Prepare accurate and detailed financial, project margin and other accounting reports as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (required). CPA designation desired, or working towards it.

• 4–7 years of progressive accounting experience, including full-cycle accounting and month-end close.

• Working knowledge of IFRS, particularly IFRS 15 revenue recognized over time and IFRS 16 leases.

• Project accounting and WIP experience on long-term, fixed-price or milestone-based contracts.

• NetSuite experience (SuiteProjects or ARM an asset); BlackLine and advanced Excel and experience supporting a NetSuite implementation is desired.

• Demonstrated, hands-on use of AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude) in accounting work, with examples of using them to automate or speed up month-end close and day-to-day tasks such as reconciliations, variance analysis and journal entry support, while maintaining appropriate review of AI outputs.

• Preferred: transit or transportation software experience and inventory accounting in a hardware/software business.

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