Accountant, Treasury
Forbes Bros · Edmonton
About Us
Forbes Bros. Group of Companies is a leading utility infrastructure contractor helping power communities across Canada and the United States. Built on family roots, we value safety, hard work, and getting the job done right for our clients. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities to build your skills and grow your career.
Role Details
- Location: Edmonton, AB office.
- Work arrangement: Office-based position with the opportunity for a hybrid work arrangement.
- Employment type: Full-time, permanent.
- Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00AM to 4:30PM
- Scope: Cash management, banking, and treasury accounting across Canadian and U.S. operations within a shared-services environment
The Opportunity
The Accountant, Treasury supports cash management, banking, and treasury operations across Forbes Bros. Group of Companies. This role is responsible for maintaining cash forecasts, preparing reconciliations, supporting financial reporting, and working with Finance, Payroll, Tax, and Operations to support accurate accounting, liquidity management, and strong financial controls.
This opportunity is well suited to an analytical accountant who enjoys investigating discrepancies, understanding cash movements, and improving financial processes. You will gain exposure to multiple entities and banking relationships while contributing to day-to-day treasury activities, reporting, and process improvements.
Key Elements of the Role
- Monitor daily cash positions, maintain short-term cash flow forecasts, identify funding requirements, and assist with transfers between accounts and entities, including Canadian and U.S. dollar requirements.
- Support banking relationships and the administration of credit facilities, guarantees, and letters of credit, and assist with monitoring banking fees, interest charges, and foreign exchange transactions.
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations, investigate outstanding items, record treasury journal entries, and reconcile related general ledger accounts and schedules.
- Support month-end and year-end close activities for cash, banking, debt, and interest accounts, ensuring accurate records and supporting documentation for internal and external audits.
- Assist with electronic funds transfers, wires, and other payment activities, working with Accounts Payable and Finance teams to resolve discrepancies and rejected transactions.
- Maintain banking administration, including account openings and closures, signing authorities, user access, and documentation, in accordance with approval controls and segregation-of-duties requirements.
- Prepare treasury reports, analyze cash movements and liquidity trends, investigate variances, and support working capital and cash management improvements.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of treasury procedures, internal controls, systems, and reporting workflows, including opportunities for automation and process efficiencies.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external banking partners to support timely transactions, accurate reporting, and effective treasury operations.
What You’ll Bring
- A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally with exposure to treasury, cash management, banking, or financial accounting.
- Experience with bank reconciliations, general ledger accounting, payment processing, and financial reporting; exposure to cash forecasting is an asset.
- A solid understanding of accounting principles, financial controls, and month-end close processes.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience working with ERP or accounting systems.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate discrepancies, identify root causes, and recommend practical solutions.
- Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and discretion when handling confidential financial information.
- Effective organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and collaborate with Finance and non-Finance teams.
- A CPA designation or progress toward one is an asset.
- Experience in a multi-entity organization, Canadian and U.S. banking operations, or construction, utilities, infrastructure, and other project-based industries is an asset.
Equal Opportunity & Recruitment
Forbes Bros. Group of Companies and its affiliated entities are equal opportunity employers committed to a respectful and accessible recruitment process. We make employment decisions based on job-related qualifications and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or family status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Applicants must currently be legally authorized to work in the country where the position is located and must maintain valid work authorization throughout their employment.
Employment is subject to the requirements of the applicable role, location, project, and employing entity. Depending on the position, this may include verification of work authorization, background screening, review of driving records or driver’s abstracts, drug and alcohol screening, credential verification, client or site-access requirements, and other pre-employment conditions permitted by applicable law.
Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process in accordance with applicable law. Applicants who require accommodation are encouraged to contact the recruitment team so we can discuss their needs and arrange appropriate support.
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