Job Cost Accountant (Maternity Leave Coverage)

WHO IS LAFARGE?
As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Lafarge is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. We are driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling to build more with less. It’s all thanks to our 70,000 talented people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products.

WHO ARE LAFARGE PEOPLE?
Lafarge people are passionate about finding better ways to build. They embrace innovation and improvement with a pioneering spirit. They work as trusted partners, creating better solutions and experiences for their customers, communities, and colleagues.

Overview: 

The Job Cost Accountant is a position that is responsible for providing support to the Construction, RMX Operations and Estimating teams, while administering project accounting on a continual basis. The position will report to the General Manager and Controller and also act as a resource for the administrative accounting staff.

The Job Cost Accountant contributes to organizational excellence by continually promoting a culture of agility, collaboration and empowerment (ACE) enabling continuous improvement.

This is a contract position for 1 year.

The incumbent coming in to this role will have to work out of our Didsbury office 2-3 times a week. 

Responsibilities: 

Financial Management: 
●    Effectively develops goals and objectives to implement actions, track performance and continuously look for opportunities for improvement
●    Produces timely and accurate invoices and reports through careful attention to detail, and improvements to information processing
●    Monitors job activity through Frontline, Track and SAP to ensure all revenue is being captured
●    Runs weekly OT Allocation and posts Hauler and tack coat journal entries to maintain accurate job cost
●    Preparation of monthly reports; Small Tools, Cost Accruals, and Revenue Journal
●    Estimated versus Actual Cost analysis by job
●    General Ledger queries/Variance analysis
●    Works with operations to ensure Work In Progress is maintained below the 30 day target
●    Reviews job cost summaries with operations to identify and rectify any discrepancies

Customer Focus:
●    Assists credit with customer billing inquiries and disputes

●    Provides customers with invoice back up, and performs invoice adjustments and re-bills as required

●    Acts as a coordinator between Credit, Operations, Estimating, and Management to provide customer with timely and accurate invoices and resolutions to problems

Operations Management:
●    Generates invoices based on quantity sheets and discussions with Operations

●    Price verification
●    Tracks materials going to jobs
●    Ensures proper job setup so transactions flow automatically

Specific Accountabilities:
●    Billing – ensure all active jobs are invoiced by in a timely manner

●    Accounts Receivable – ensure all documentation is available to facilitate timely collection of invoices 
●    Ensure job performance is accurately reported on a regular basis; through preparation of worksheets and journal voucher entry, cost allocations, revenue and cost accruals, and other journal entries as required
●    Ensure WIP is maintained below 30 days

Dimensions / Relationships with Others’ Jobs:
●    Provides support for the General Manager, Credit Department, and the Accounting, Operations, and Estimating teams.

●    Directly reports to the General Manager and Controller
 

Qualifications: 

Education:  
●    An undergraduate degree in Accounting or related field

Experience and Skill Set:   
●    Job Costing experience would be an asset

●    Self-starter, willing to do work outside job description as required
●    Proficient in Microsoft Office 
●    Excellent written and oral communication and teamwork/interpersonal skills

●    Ability to work tight deadlines
●    Disciplined and process-oriented
●    Strong problem solving and analytical skills

●    Highly organized individual
●    High level of time management and task prioritization skills

Competencies:  
●    Drive for Results 

●    Detail Oriented
●    Time management
●    Task Prioritization
●    Highly organized
●    Listening 
●    Composure
●    Customer Focus
 

As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, will be required.

YOUR LAFARGE EXPERIENCE
At Lafarge, there is endless opportunity for you to play your part. Whether you’re in a technical, managerial, or frontline role, you can shape a career that works for you. With us you’ll have the chance to embrace the passion we share for our planet. You’ll be encouraged to seek out diverse perspectives, share your ideas and build the skills and connections you need to perform at your best. Because it’s only when we work together in a culture where everyone thrives, that we can build the world we all want to live in.