Manager, General Accounting
Fervo Energy · Houston, TX · 1 wk ago
HybridAccountingFull-time
Responsibilities
- Own or review recurring close activities, including cash posting, bank reconciliations, prepaids, accruals, PP&E accounts, payroll-related accruals, legal accruals, G&A allocations, and other general ledger entries.
- Coordinate close timing, dependencies, support quality, and reviewer follow-up to ensure timely and efficient closing within agreed upon timelines.
- Partner with AP, Operations Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and Financial Reporting to ensure entries are complete, accurate, timely, and properly supported.
Reconciliations, Controls and Audit Readiness
- Own balance sheet reconciliation quality for assigned areas, ensuring reconciliations explain ending balances.
- Review account reconciliations for completeness, aging, reconciling items, support quality, reasonable explanations, and timely resolution.
- Build, or lead staff in creating, desktop procedures, process narratives, and control documentation embedded in key recurring workpapers.
- Support external audit, SOX readiness, and internal control evidence requests for close, reconciliations, allocations, and accrual processes.
Process Improvement and Team Development
- Identify manual close tasks that can be simplified, standardized, automated, or delegated to staff.
- Support implementation and use of close management, reconciliation, ERP, and automation tools.
- Train and cross-train staff accountants to ensure continuity, vacation coverage, and clear ownership of recurring tasks.
- Use analytics to identify unusual balances, stale reconciling items, missed accruals, allocation issues, and process bottlenecks.
Qualifications
- Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 6+ years of progressive accounting experience with strong monthly close and general ledger ownership.
- Experience preparing and reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, allocations, and close support.
- Strong understanding of US GAAP, internal controls, and audit-ready workpaper standards.
- Experience managing multiple entities, cost centers, intercompany activity, or complex allocation processes.
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort with ERP reports, trial balances, reconciliations, and close analytics.
- Ability to lead, coach, review work, and partner cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
- Preferred:
- CPA or CPA track preferred.
- Public accounting and/or experience at a public-company.
- Experience with FloQast, Quorum, OpenInvoice
- Experience in energy, tax equity infrastructure, renewable power, or multi-entity project accounting environments.
- SOX readiness, process documentation, or system implementation experience.