Accountant, Operations, Heartland Finance

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Date: Jul 16, 2025

Location: Strathcona County, AB, CA

Company: Inter Pipeline Ltd.

 

At Inter Pipeline, we are building a team of innovators and problem solvers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. We cultivate opportunities to get to know each other better and collaborate more effectively. In every part of our organization, you will find people with a sense of purpose and a shared ethos - motivated, engaged, exploring new ideas and pushing for continuous improvements in everything we do. We believe teamwork is core to our success, and in that spirit you will work closely with leaders and team members. This is a great opportunity to amplify your purpose and contribute to meaningful, challenging work at the forefront of the energy sector.

Bring your passion, your ideas, and let's do this.

Description

Reporting to the Supervisor, Operations Accounting, the HPC Operations Accountant is responsible for providing accounting support for various duties including but not limited to: Central Utilities Block (CUB), Capital accounting and AFE support, plant operations and maintenance, providing cost tracking, performance/variance reporting, budget development and forecasting. The HPC Operations Accountant is a key member of the HPC Operations Accounting team. 

Responsibilities:

  • Work collaboratively with business partners to complete all accounting required for the CUB asset including, journal entries, accruals, invoicing, reconciliations, forecasting, budgeting and reporting
  • Work with the Commercial team to ensure all accounting for CUB is in accordance with the terms of the owner contracts
  • Work collaboratively with business partners to review and progress requests for capital project projects spending including liaising with Project Managers and Manager of the Projects team
  • Prepare AFE’s in SAP working with Project Managers and the projects team including all required SOX documentation
  • Review Capital requests to ensure alignment with IPL and IFRS policies
  • Coordinate, upload and provide variance analysis on utilities, capital, operations and maintenance including forecasting and working with the FP&A team
  • Prepare in-servicing of capital projects in SAP including creating assets and all required SOX documentation
  • Support development of capital and operations budgeting including reporting and analysis
  • Support Turnaround activities as required
  • Support Operations accounting as required including meeting with cost owners, power BI reporting, variance analysis, month end, account reconciliations
  • Work with other business partners including plant cost owners, SOX, corporate reporting and FP&A as required
  • Perform ad-hoc analysis and internal reporting as required
  • Duties may be adjusted on an as needed basis within the Heartland accounting team to meet business needs. 


The responsibilities listed are provided as an outline and are not intended to create limits to responsibility, but to provide guidance as to the scope of the position. 

Education, Skills and Experience:

  • Relevant Degree (Accounting, Finance, Business) required
  • 2+ years’ experience in industrial plant environment preferred
  • CPA, or working towards CPA designation is an asset
  • Experience using SAP and Maximo would be an asset
  • Ability to identify issues or problems and present alternative solutions
  • Ability to analyze and interpret financial results to non-financial cost owners
  • Competent with MS Office applications, specifically excel and Power BI
  • Effective team player that can manage relationships with interpersonal and communication skills (both written and oral)
  • Ability to analyze and resolve problems in a fast-paced environment, responding to multiple internal and external stakeholders
  • Knowledge of plant operations is an asset, including but not limited to turnarounds, capital projects, and production accounting
  • Knowledge, application and maintenance of IFRS, SOX and other changing internal accounting processes and controls is an asset
  • Understands, creates and maintains a visible commitment to process and personal safety, as well as the safety of others.

 

While diversity is a fact, inclusion is the act of recognizing the value of our differences and leveraging them for the betterment of our organization. At Inter Pipeline, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that values, represents, and supports the communities in which we work. We are committed to maintaining a respectful workplace and we are building a culture that supports the diverse needs of our employees. We welcome applications from all individuals including those who are Indigenous, racialized, of varied abilities and ethnicities, members of gender and sexually diverse communities, as well as with any other dimension of diversity.