Senior Project Accountant

STN, Inc.; Pleasanton, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) Plan

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

STN, Inc. seeks a Senior Project Accountant in Pleasanton, CA to own project, contract, and revenue accounting for services, GPU-related contracts, and infrastructure engagements.

This hands-on role spans contract to cash and requires strong attention to revenue recognition and controls. The successful candidate will manage WIP, percent-of-completion calculations, and billing accuracy, collaborating with Sales, Legal, Operations, and Finance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of progressive accounting experience in services, infrastructure, or technology.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Review new and amended customer contracts for accounting and billing implications, including milestones, acceptance provisions, and credits.
• Apply ASC 606 across multi-element arrangements spanning recurring service, onboarding, and hardware resale, including gross vs. net presentation.
• Own deferred revenue, unbilled revenue, and contract backlog schedules; reconcile remaining performance obligations to recognized revenue and billings.
• Own billing readiness controls and identify revenue leakage: unbilled delivery, incorrect rates, missed recurring charges, contract changes, and out-of-scope work.
• Maintain project records in the ERP, including budgets, billing terms, rate tables, and revenue recognition methods 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; investigate mischarges and unallocated time.
• Produce monthly project margin, utilization, and recurring revenue reporting; flag engagements trending against budget or scope.
• Own revenue recognition for GPU One and infrastructure contracts, including committed capacity and billing for usage.
• Track site-level cost of revenue (power, colocation, network, facility) and allocate across contracts/sites.
• Support CIP tracking and depreciation handoff; maintain asset registers for GPU/compute nodes.
• Reconcile high-volume vendor invoices to contracts and PO receipts; monitor open commitments.
• Execute month-end and quarter-end close activities; prepare schedules for management, sponsor, and lender reporting.
• Serve as a primary preparer for external audits covering revenue, WIP, deferred revenue, and fixed assets.

Skills

ERP experience

Advanced Excel

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

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.