Billing Specialist

If you're a positive and outgoing billing 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), an 800+ team of advisory, environmental/engineering, and regulatory professionals across Canada.  We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen.

As a Billing Specialist, you'll play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal. 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 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.

This is a one-year contract role, based in Guelph or Toronto, with a hybrid work arrangement.

Responsibilities:

•    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

•    Responding promptly and professionally to telephone and email communications

•    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:

•    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

•    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

•    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  

Working @ SLR 
With us, there is no doubt you'll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they'll tell you that's just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years. 

Here's what else you'll enjoy as part of our team: 

•    Competitive total compensation package commensurate with experience.

•    The salary range for this position is $ $35.00/hour. Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location.

•    Opportunities for professional growth and advancement

Qualifications:

•    Minimum 5 years of experience in billing and accounting roles, preferably within project-based industries such as engineering or consulting

•    Proven ability to manage high-volume billing operations, processing several hundred invoices weekly with accuracy and efficiency

•    Proficient in Deltek Vantagepoint, with direct, hands-on experience managing billing workflows and financial data within the platform

•    Strong collaboration skills with demonstrated experience working directly with clients and project managers

•    Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including use of formulas, pivot tables, and LOOKUP functions

•    Post-secondary education in Accounting, Finance, or related field, supported by strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Artificial intelligence is not being used to screen, assess, or select applicants.
 

SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.