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Plant Accountant I

Chugach Electric Careers

The Role

Overview

Maintain and reconcile plant accounting records, assets, inventory, and prepare related schedules.

Key Responsibilities

  • fixed asset
  • inventory reconciliation
  • journal entries
  • audit schedules
  • project numbering
  • plant accounting

Tasks

-Auditors: Provides source documents as necessary and answers procedural questions to permit auditors to perform their function. -Maintains detailed balances of amounts received as Contributions in Aid of Construction and reconciles to trial balance. -Participates in the conversion of the continuing property records to an automated fixed asset system and maintains the ongoing accuracy of the associated accounting records. -Reconciles deferred debit projects monthly and makes appropriate adjustments to accounts. -Accounting Personnel: Responds to inquiries and provides information as related to Plant Accounting -Clears materials and free issues for inventory operations. -Maintains continuing property records to include reconciling account balances to trial balances, researches discrepancies and corrects differences. -Manager, Plant Accounting: Reports to and receives work assignments and direction from. Keeps manager informed of problems and progress in all areas of work. -Issues and sets up project numbers for deferred debit and reimbursable deferred debit projects. -Prepares monthly, quarterly, and year-end audit and other schedules as needed. -Performs monthly reconciliation of inventory accounts. -Prepares journal entries and maintains supporting schedules for the depreciation and amortization of capital and intangible assets. -Participates in the physical inventory count for various warehouses and assists warehouse personnel with inventory adjustments and/or average unit price adjustments. -Other Departments: Receives requests from, provides assistance to and exchanges information as required.

Benefits

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

The Company

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.

Sector Specialisms

Electric Utility

Electrical Engineering

Distribution

Transmission

Substation

Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure

Renewable Resources

Natural Gas

Generation Planning

Fuel Supply

Hydro Resources

Visa Sponsorship

-no visa sponsorship; applicants must already be authorized to work in the u.s.