Billing Specialist

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’re SLR, a global consulting firm delivering over 30 technical disciplines around the world to help our clients reach their environmental and sustainability goals. With over 25 years of experience, our ambition is to be a global 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 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 service-oriented 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, write-offs 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 on-going 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
- Full-time, permanent role with flexible scheduling available
- Opportunities for professional growth and advancement
- A caring and close-knit 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 projects-based industry (engineering, consulting etc.)
- Experience working in a high-volume role, processing up to several hundred bills/invoices per week
- Experience working with project-based 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
- Post-secondary education in accounting, finance or similar- Country
- Canada

Office
- Guelph; Markham; Toronto