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Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.

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Project Accountant

Job location: This is a remote/hybrid position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in Canada. If you are located in Ottawa, you will be expected to work in a hybrid model with a minimum of working in the office 3 days a week.

About The Team

The Project Accountant, as a senior specialist with advanced applied knowledge, is responsible for supporting the professional services order to revenue accounting cycle, by providing services contract administration and data maintenance for Professional Services projects.

Reporting initially to the Senior Manager of Financial Operations, the Project Accountant will partner with our Professional Services team to ensure the successful financial management of projects, including project setup, maintenance, invoicing, and project closure.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a cross-functional partner, and to help scale Professional Services revenue and project accounting in a high-growth, multi-entity, and global business.

What you will do

• Monitor project budgets, change orders, project health and estimates in the PSA tool, Kantata.
• Build strong relationships with our internal Professional Services business partners, including Delivery and Project Managers.
• Assist with special project assignments, ad-hoc analysis as required.
• Support resolution of contract issues including providing support to the billing team as required.
• Ensure consistent application of approvals and control procedures.
• Effectively work with colleagues across Finance and other key internal and external stakeholders.
• Financial management of time and material and fixed price Professional Services projects, which includes but is not limited to contract and change request management, project setup, master data maintenance, invoicing, and project closure.
• Identify risks to project status or completion and escalate to leadership as appropriate
• Support service sales team in creation of statements of work and change requests.
• Complete monthly project financial procedures including revenue recognition and support timely and accurate invoice creation

What we are looking for

• Excellent communication skills, including being able to clearly communicate financial information to colleagues and stakeholders, and work collaboratively with integrity.
• Able to manage multiple and dynamic priorities and deadlines and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Post-secondary degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in Project or Professional Services Accounting
• Skilled in Microsoft tools (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook).
• Experience in a multi-entity global environment, high-tech industry experience an asset.
• Proven experience building strong, cross-functional relationships and partnering with stakeholders from across the business to meet objectives.
• Experience with ERP and project accounting systems, Netsuite, Kantata and Salesforce an asset.

What we have to offer

• Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
• Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
• Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/ .

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