Junior Cost & Billing Accountant

About Us

The Gisborne Group is an industrial general construction company, that started out in 1953 as a forestry industry, maintenance overload and labour contractor. Today Gisborne enjoys continued growth and success in all Industrial Construction sectors as well as having a robust Fire Protection Division. With a dedicated core of senior employees and support office personnel, Gisborne employs in excess of 500 trade personnel, plus sub-contractors on an average annual basis.

Junior Cost & Billings Accountant

The focus of this position is to be responsible for full cycle Accounts Receivables including: Client invoicing, Reconciliation and Account Maintenance. This role will assist and provide support for all Cost and Billings for the Gisborne Group.

Schedule

• Full-time (40 hours per week
• In office (Burnaby)

Job Tasks

• Issuing Job numbers
• Setting up new projects in accounting software upon getting a Notice of Project from the project manager (including for Tenant Improvements and Small Jobs).
• Setting up a customer master file
• Setting up current charge out rates for Cost Plus Jobs
• Prepare bi-weekly cost plus billings (Labour, Materials, & Other charges)
• Prepare monthly billing information summary
• Prepare draft of progress claim faxing, emailing to the client
• Prepare LEM’s (Labour, Equipment, and Materials worksheets)
• Provide Statutory Declaration for second and subsequent progress payments, or release of holdback
• Processing Miscellaneous Quick bills, as needed
• Reconciling billings
• Assist Cost and Billing Accountant with processing vendor invoices for all on-going projects and update PO logs for expense and commitment tracking
• Adjustments, Bad Debts, write off processing
• Filing as needed

Skills

• Some Post Secondary accounting courses (Certificate/Diploma) or related experience
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills – Word, Excel, Outlook
• Strong English Language skills – spoken and written
• Good command of General Accounting Practices
• Excellent Communication skills – spoken and written
• Excellent attention to detail
• Reliable, punctual, communicative

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $45,000.00-$50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• On-site parking

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Administration: 1 year (preferred)
• Data entry: 1 year (preferred)

Language:

• English (required)

Work Location: In person