Billing Specialist - Guelph, Canada - SLR Consulting

SLR Consulting

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Guelph, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

If you're a positive and outgoing accounts payable specialist looking for an opportunity where you can bring your skills to a highly engaged team, where your efforts and impact will be recognized and valued, then this is the role for you.

We are SLR Consulting (Canada), a 400+ team of environmental/regulatory professionals across the country. We are a leading consulting firm delivering over 30 technical disciplines helping our clients reach their environmental and sustainability goals. With over 25 years of experience, we are a recognized leader in environmental and advisory solutions.
You will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal

Job Description:

As our new

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Billing Specialist, you'll be a key member of our finance team, ensuring that our high volume of invoices get sent out each week with a high degree of accuracy and professionalism.

Responsiveness, a serviceoriented mindset, and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities will be critical to your success. Our team moves quickly, so we need someone who builds trust through competence, and brings initiative and tenacity to everything they do.
We're also recently upgraded to a new ERP system, so ideally you're someone who is comfortable with software and technology, and excited to help build and create new, more efficient billing processes.

Key Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities will include:

Billing and Invoicing creating draft invoices in collaboration with Project Managers in accordance with the billing schedule, sending final invoices to clients
Activating project setup submissions, ensuring accuracy in billing rates, budgets, and contractual documents
Ensuring financial related project maintenance such as budget updates, change orders, writeoffs and closures are recorded in a timely and accurate manner
Producing draft and work in progress (WIP) reports for project tracking
Working/communicating with Project Managers, Project Controllers, Commercial Manager, Financial Controller and Collections Manager on issues such as aged WIP and A/R
Assisting the accounting team with miscellaneous duties as required
Supporting ongoing initiatives and special projects

Cultural fit and shared vision are very important to SLR.

We want to grow our team around the right people, so possession of the following qualities will allow you to thrive:

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Self-Initiative - you're able to effectively manage your priorities, and are driven to complete your tasks on-time with a high level of accountability and conscientiousness
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Attention to Detail - you don't miss the important details even when you're busy, because you know how critical accuracy is to your role
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Team player - you understand that the team functions better as a whole when everyone pulls together, and you never hesitate to pitch in where needed or help build team culture-
Here's what else you'll enjoy as part of our team:

Competitive total compensation package commensurate with experience
Comprehensive benefit plan and a suite of wellness initiatives
Fulltime, permanent role with flexible scheduling available
Opportunities for professional growth and advancement
A caring and closeknit team culture dedicated to supporting your work and keeping you connected
Qualifications
2+ years of experience in a billing or accounting role, ideally in a projectsbased industry (engineering, consulting etc.)
Experience working in a highvolume role, processing up to several hundred bills/invoices per week
Experience working with projectbased ERP software
Deltek Vision or Deltek Vantagepoint is a significant asset
Experience working with clients and project managers
Strong MS Office skills, with particular emphasis on Excel
LOOKUPS, pivot tables, formulas
Postsecondary education in accounting, finance or similar
Country
Canada