Senior Project Accountant

Pleasanton, CA

Full Time

Accounting

Experienced

Senior Project Accountant

Location: Hybrid – Pleasanton, California
Reporting to: Finance Manager

At STN, we don't just adapt to the digital future, we engineer it. Our mission is to help organizations thrive in a rapidly evolving technology landscape through strategic insight, cutting-edge solutions, and a security-first mindset. We provide end-to-end services spanning cloud consulting, AI infrastructure, and enterprise security, enabling secure, scalable, and future-ready transformation.

As trusted advisors, we align IT investments with business outcomes that drive performance and growth, starting with deep strategic engagement and delivering tailored solutions built for long-term impact.

Our approach is innovation-led and rooted in cybersecurity, with a focus on leveraging the right technologies to solve real-world challenges. We invest in our people and foster a culture of growth, inclusion, and purpose because we believe empowered teams build transformative technology.

Overview
STN is hiring a Senior Project Accountant to own project, contract, and revenue accounting across our professional services, managed services, and GPU-as-a-Service (GPU One) businesses. You'll sit at the center of the contract-to-cash lifecycle, making sure what we sign, what we deliver, what we bill, and what we recognize all line up. It's a hands-on role with real scope, well suited to someone who wants to build durable process in a business that is scaling quickly.

Key Responsibilities

Contract and Revenue Accounting

Review new and amended customer contracts for accounting and billing implications, including milestones, acceptance provisions, variable consideration, credits, and other nonstandard terms
Apply ASC 606 across multi-element arrangements spanning recurring service, one-time onboarding, and hardware resale, including gross versus net presentation
Own deferred revenue, unbilled revenue, and contract backlog schedules, and reconcile remaining performance obligations to recognized revenue and billings
Own billing readiness controls and identify revenue leakage: unbilled delivery, incorrect rates, missed recurring charges, unprocessed contract changes, and out-of-scope work

Project and Services Accounting

Maintain project records in the ERP, including budgets, billing terms, rate tables, and revenue recognition method by engagement
Own work-in-process schedules, calculate percentage-of-completion revenue on fixed-fee engagements, and validate time-and-materials billing
Track labor, subcontractor, and pass-through costs to the correct project and phase, and investigate mischarges and unallocated time
Produce monthly project margin, utilization, and recurring revenue reporting, flagging engagements and contracts trending against budget or scope

GPU One and Infrastructure

Own revenue recognition for long-term GPU capacity contracts, including committed capacity, usage and burst billing, ramp schedules, and SLA credit exposure
Track site-level cost of revenue (power, colocation, network, and facility costs) and allocate it across contracts and sites
Support construction-in-progress and capex tracking on active buildouts, including placed-in-service dates and the handoff to depreciation
Maintain serial-level asset registers for GPU and compute nodes with Infrastructure and Technical Operations, covering transfers, RMAs, retirements, and disposals
Reconcile high-volume vendor and colocation invoices to contracts, purchase orders, and asset receipts, and monitor open purchase commitments

Close, Reporting, and Controls

Execute assigned month-end and quarter-end close activities: journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and flux analysis on project and contract balances
Prepare revenue and cost-of-revenue schedules supporting management, sponsor, and lender reporting
Serve as a primary preparer for external audit and diligence requests covering revenue, WIP, deferred revenue, and fixed assets
Monitor data quality across the ERP, billing, procurement, and asset systems that feed accounting, and improve process and controls as the business scales

Business Partnership

Serve as the accounting subject-matter expert on complex projects and contracts, advising Sales, Legal, Operations, and Procurement before issues reach billing or close
Lead recurring financial reviews with project and operational leadership on contract performance, margin risk, billing issues, and financial exposure
Escalate material financial, accounting, contract, or control risks to the Controller and Finance leadership

Experience & Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
5-8 years of progressive accounting experience, including project, contract, or revenue accounting in a services, infrastructure, or technology business
Working knowledge of ASC 606, including multi-element arrangements and variable consideration
Hands-on experience with percentage-of-completion, WIP, unbilled revenue, and deferred revenue schedules
Strong ERP experience and advanced Excel, with a track record of reconciling across disconnected systems and driving variances to root cause

Preferred

Experience in data center, colocation, cloud infrastructure, managed services or MSSP, or another capital-intensive technology business
CPA or CMA, or active progress toward one
NetSuite experience
Fixed asset and construction-in-progress accounting, including the CIP-to-depreciation handoff
Experience supporting external audit, lender, or sponsor reporting

Soft Skills

Judgment: recognizes when a commercial term is an accounting issue and raises it early
Cross-functional credibility: explains accounting consequences to sales, legal, and operations without leaning on jargon
Ownership: follows a reconciliation through to root cause and closes the loop
Comfort with ambiguity: builds process where none exists yet and keeps it working as the business changes

Compensation

Full-Time, Exempt
$130,000-$160,000/year, DOE

Benefits

Health Coverage – Medical, Dental & Vision
FSA Health and Dependent Care available
401(k) Plan
Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
Observed Holidays Paid
Cell Phone Allowance
Collaborative, growth-driven culture

Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and reference verification. All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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