Cost Analyst

Industry: Oil & Gas Services
Salary: $70-80K

Overview

Our client is a large public oil & gas services company with operations in Canada, the US and Internationally.  Currently they have a need to add a Cost Analyst to their team.  This is a full-time role reporting to the Financial Reporting Manager out of the Calgary downtown office. 

Responsibilities:

The Cost Analyst is accountable for supporting the accounting operations of the Company, including but not limited to accurate and timely financial reporting, maintaining appropriate accounting records, and generating cost reports and analyses for Canada and US. Specific duties include:

  • Prepare and review monthly journal entries
  • Assist in the preparation of various financial reports and schedules
  • Review and analyze general ledger accounts, highlighting and explaining major variances and investigating unusual transactions
  • Assist in the provision of information to external auditors for review and audit
  • Generate and analyze job costing reports for Canada and US monthly; ensuring that all revenues and incurred costs are reflected accurately and in a timely manner on each job by utilizing PowerBI and other accounting spreadsheets and schedules6
  • Prepare job costing reports for specific clients and time periods as required by Supervisor and Management
  • Prepare presentation notes, present, and respond to inquiries on the job costing reports during job costing meetings
  • Engage in regular and/or ad hoc meetings with report stakeholders to discuss issues and reporting requirements
  • Coordinate changes to the job costing reports with Business Applications Manager and other stakeholders as required
  • Continuously improve the job costing report generation process
  • Prepare and maintain monthly Atlas motor cost per hour reports
  • Prepare and maintain monthly RSS job costing reports
  • Prepare and maintain monthly Gyro job costing reports
  • Assist with CSOX internal controls testing
  • Other duties and projects as required by Supervisor and Management (e.g. Antenna and At-bit job costing)
  • Assist other departments with various projects when time permits
  • Perform all duties to meet the responsibilities listed in the Employee and Corporate HSE Handbooks
  • Perform duties according to the Company’s quality system procedures and work instructions.

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of senior level accounting experience with a minimum of 2 years focused on financial reporting
  • Previous experience in the oil & gas services industry recommended
  • Completion or near completion of post-secondary accounting designation
  • Very organized, analytical, detail-oriented individual with exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience with SAP Business One and PowerBI is an asset
  • Advanced Excel skills and solid keyboard skills with proficiency in MS Office

To apply, please email us your resume, attached, in confidence to mike.buckner@roneta.com.  Please include the title of this position in the subject line.  We prefer resume files as .doc or .rtf; pdf acceptable.