Accountant 2

Job Functions

• Records fixed asset additions and retirements in PowerPlan.
• Affords assistance in formulating accounting policy and procedures involved in the tracking of project costs and maintenance of property, plant, and equipment records.
• Reconciles plant-related balance sheet accounts.
• Affords assistance in reviewing, interpreting, and correcting all information in PowerPlan.
• Works with various business unit representatives to resolve questions related to project costs.
• Affords coverage for all Fixed Asset Accounting duties during the absence of others in the group.
• Performs research, journal entries, and fixed asset entries, as needed.
• Identifies issues or factors inhibiting progress on individual projects, collects and analyzes data.

Primary Duties

• Prepares monthly accounting journal entries.
• Prepares monthly account reconciliations.
• Performs processes during the monthly close cycle.
• Creates, updates, reviews, investigates and distributes schedules and financial reports pertaining to various phases of accounting functions.
• Prepares, analyzes and verifies accounting reports and other records to support responses to data requests in connection with regulatory filings and audits.
• Affords assurance that all transactions are properly supported and are in accordance with GAAP, FERC, SOX, and other regulatory requirements.
• Provides internal and external customer support when needed.

Minimum Requirements

• Educational/Experience Level: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field and 2 years of related experience in Accounting, or equivalent.
• A general educational knowledge normally acquired through a high school diploma or a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and 5 years of related experience in Accounting.
• Communication Skills: Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers in order to obtain and/or provide explanations and/or modifications on technical or other complex concepts to individuals with little or no background in the area under discussion, verbally and in writing.
• Numeric Skills: Requires the ability to perform analyses involving ratios, percentages and simple statistical methods.
• Computer Skills: Requires knowledge of various software applications to create documents, reports and/or graphics.

Physical Demands

• Requires occasionally performing activities including, but not limited to, bending, stooping, grasping, reaching, twisting, turning and/or lifting.

Work Conditions

• Works in an office environment.

Atmos Energy Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.