Senior Project Accountant

STN Incorporated; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

401(k) Plan

Unlimited PTO

Holidays Paid

Cell Phone Allowance

Collaborative culture

Job summary

STN Incorporated is seeking a Senior Project Accountant hybrid in Pleasanton, CA. You will own contract, revenue, and project accounting across services, MSP, and GPU One lines, ensuring proper recognition, billing, and controls as the business scales.

You will manage WIP, deferred revenue, and backlog, coordinate with Finance leadership, and support audits and external reporting. A strong ASC 606 background and ERP proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of progressive accounting experience in services/tech.
• Working knowledge of ASC 606 and multi-element arrangements.
• Hands-on experience with percentage-of-completion, WIP, unbilled revenue, and deferred revenue.

Responsibilities

• Review contracts for accounting and billing implications, including ASC 606 considerations.
• Own deferred revenue, unbilled revenue, and contract backlog schedules; reconcile obligations to revenue.
• Maintain project records in the ERP and track costs by engagement and phase.
• Oversee month-end close activities and prepare reporting for audits and lenders.

Skills

ASC 606

WIP

Revenue recognition

Excel

ERP experience

Contract accounting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

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: recognises 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.