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.