Senior Accountant

Description

• Audit: Play a key role in the execution of annual financial statement audits.
• Fulfills job responsibilities with a customer-focused mindset by providing efficient, timely, and reliable service to internal and external stakeholders.
• Analysis: Own and execute period end budget versus actual and management discussion analysis (MDA) for owned areas of accounting. Execute analytics as requested.
• Perform ad hoc analysis and projects as needed.
• Apply a systems mindset to own workflow, across the accounting function, and cross-functionally.
• Project Accounting: Own and execute project accounting activities including preparation and review of project-related journal entries, reclasses, expense accruals and capitalized labor. Work cross functionally with Operations, Finance & Accounting to ensure accurate treatment according to policies and application of certain principles such as capital versus expense classification for when an asset is placed in service.
• Debt Accounting: Work with staff accountant to ensure debt is recorded each period per GAAP. Support debt draws.
• Inventory Management: Own and execute inventory accounting related to solar project assets. Work cross functionally with procurement team and O&M team to ensure efficient processes are in place to account for inventory per GAAP and Company policy. Participate in inventory systems development and implementation. Own annual lower of cost of market and obsolescence analysis.
• Equity Accounting: Ensure corporate equity and partnership equity are accounted for per GAAP and partnership documents.
• Process Documentation: Lead the creation, management, and continual improvement of documentation for owned accounting processes.
• Intercompany: Own all intercompany transactions and eliminations ensuring recorded per company policy. Work with Senior Accounting Manager Operations to update intercompany accounting processes.
• Monthly Close: Key participant in monthly close leading timely and accurate completion of assigned reconciliations, tasks and journal entries per the close calendar. Review staff accountant reconciliations as appropriate for accuracy and compliance, resolving issues promptly.

Requirements

• Must be self-motivated and enjoy a team-oriented approach to work, contributing to a supportive, collaborative, cross functional team environment.
• Experience with contributing to financial statement audits.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Public accounting experience at a Big 4 firm preferred.
• CPA or progress toward certification strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting.
• Experience reviewing debt documents, accounting for debt and accrued interest, creating and maintaining debt roll forwards, and reconciling debt.
• Proficiency in ERP systems, such as Sage Intacct or NetSuite.
• Experience in solar development or construction industry desired.
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to both accounting and non-accounting stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with procurement, operations, and other teams.
• 4 – 6+ years' of relevant accounting experience contributing to a high-performing operational accounting team.
• Comfortable operating in a hybrid, remote, and in-person team environment.
• Proven ability to manage workload independently and prioritize deadlines with competing priorities.
• Understanding of GAAP and management accounting.
• Must have a change mindset and the desire to proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and adapt to evolving business needs.
• Experience driving efficiency, operational automation, and standardization.
• High degree of ownership and accountability.
• Experience managing material and supply inventory, including accounting, reporting, and transaction processing.
• Proactive and creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly communicate problems and identify possible resolutions.
• High proficiency in Office 365 skills, required.
• Advanced excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, data analysis).
• Strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to document, maintain, and improve accounting processes and controls.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance