Plant Accountant II

Overview

Manages plant asset accounting, work order close-outs, and inventory for utility operations.

Key Responsibilities

• equipment records
• billing documentation
• work order closeout
• audit reporting
• ledger analysis
• inventory management

Tasks

-Maintains special equipment records and prepares related reports for new and retired equipment. -Prepares necessary documentation for State of Alaska (SOA) and Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) relocation billings and coordinates the follow-up on disputed issues. Calculates bills in accordance with project agreements received by SOA and MOA. -Accounting Personnel: Responds to inquiries and provides information as related to Plant Accounting. -Prepares necessary documentation for Capital Expense billings to ML&P related to Southcentral Power Plant (SPP). Maintains the ML&P SPP Billing Status Report. Attends SPP O&M meetings to report on billing or inventory, as needed. -Creates work order close-out packet for final review and authorization. -Prepares monthly, quarterly, and year-end audit and other schedules/reports for areas of responsibility. -Verifies projects meet the capital improvement/upgrade/retirement criteria. -Maintains the ongoing accuracy of continuing property records. -State of Alaska and Municipality of Anchorage: Provides information to and answers questions to support accounts receivable invoices. -Prepares analysis of selected general ledger accounts. -Meets with other Department personnel when necessary to ensure appropriate adjustments are made to project costs. -Runs work order reports, reviews staking sheets and close-out documentation, translates construction assembly units and validates all accounts for projects, and creates applicable work order system. -Maintains historical accounting work order closeout information. -Reviews, updates and verifies standard costs tables. -Prepares and maintains records of Chugach's Undergrounding Surcharge revenues expended for qualified underground to overhead distribution line projects. Prepares and provides data for Distribution Engineering's annual Undergrounding Surcharge report. -Performs analysis and final Accounting Department close-out of capital and retirement work orders according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulations. -Assesses other accounting sub-systems to ensure work orders can be closed. -Prepares inventory billing for Chugach's jointly owned inventory. Prepares journal entries to accurately record shared inventory. -Auditors: Provides source documents as necessary and answers procedural questions to permit auditors to perform their function. -Coordinates inventory preparation with Information Services and warehouse personnel. Participates in the physical count of all inventories. Reviews, analyzes, and reconciles the physical inventory count and cycle counts for all Chugach inventories. -Manager, Plant Accounting: Reports to and receives work assignments and direction from. Keeps manager informed of problems and progress in all areas of work. -Prepares necessary documentation for Department of Transportation (DOT) audit of distribution and transmission overhead rates and projects. -Other Departments: Receives requests from, provides assistance to and exchanges information as required. -Enters project cost information into the appropriate application or prepares supporting close-out spreadsheets, creates and verifies costs for journal entries, and verifies individual project cost data for each work order.

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Benefits

-Defined Benefit (Pension through IBEW) -401K Plan -160 hours vacation for the first year -Supplemental Life Insurance -Basic Life Insurance paid for by Chugach Electric -10 Paid Holidays + 3 Float Holidays -Employee Assistance Program -Medical & RX -Dependent Flex Spending Account

About Chugach Electric Careers

-As a vertically-integrated utility, it owns significant natural gas reserves and manages generation, transmission and distribution. -Serving over 113,000 locations via nearly 3,800 miles of lines, typical projects include substations, high-voltage transmission and underground systems. -Remaining one of North America’s few cooperatives with majority natural gas ownership, showcasing unique scale and autonomy. -Headquartered in Anchorage, its project footprint spans from Whittier’s coastal reaches to Tyonek and northern Peninsulas.

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Visa Sponsorship

-chugach electric does not sponsor employment visas; applicants must be authorized to work in the u.s.