Senior Accountant

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, documentation, and continuous improvement of internal controls across key accounting cycles, ensuring scalability, audit readiness, and alignment with long-term public-company standards.
• Establish and formalize accounting policies and procedures, proactively identifying control gaps and operational risks while implementing durable, repeatable solutions.
• Partner cross-functionally to embed financial discipline into evolving business processes, ensuring strong governance as capital deployment and operational complexity increase.
• Drive system and workflow enhancements that improve accuracy, documentation quality, and efficiency across the accounting function.
• Own critical components of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring timely, accurate financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP.
• Review complex journal entries, reconciliations, and account analyses, exercising sound technical judgment and maintaining high standards of documentation.
• Lead analytical reviews of financial results, investigating variances and resolving issues with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Serve as a key liaison for external auditors, coordinating audit deliverables and ensuring timely, high-quality responses.
• Oversee accounting for large-scale capital projects and infrastructure deployment, ensuring proper capitalization, cost tracking, and compliance with accounting standards.
• Partner with FP&A and Operations to strengthen project cost controls and improve visibility into capital expenditures and budget-to-actual performance.
• Ensure appropriate documentation and audit support for complex transactions, including capitalized costs, revenue activities, and grant-related expenditures.
• Continuously enhance processes supporting revenue recognition, invoicing, and compliance-driven accounting requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership-level ownership of financial integrity, operating with sound judgment and accountability in a high-growth, capital-intensive environment.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior accounting staff, elevating documentation standards and technical execution across the team.
• Collaborate effectively across Finance and operational teams to foster alignment, transparency, and disciplined execution.
• Contribute to a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and intellectual rigor within the Accounting organization.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Accounting or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive general ledger accounting experience, including significant exposure to month-end and year-end close ownership.
• Deep knowledge of US GAAP and experience preparing or reviewing full financial statements and supporting disclosures.
• Demonstrated experience designing, documenting, and improving internal controls within a growing or operationally complex organization.
• Proven ability to manage complex accounting areas independently, exercise strong technical judgment, and resolve issues with minimal oversight.
• Experience supporting external audits, including preparation of audit schedules, technical memos, and control documentation.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and strong experience working within ERP systems and integrated financial environments.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, capital-intensive environment.
• Experience in energy, infrastructure, power generation, E&P, or other capital-intensive industries (preferred).
• Exposure to public-company readiness, SOX frameworks, or formalized control environments (preferred).
• Experience with project-based accounting, capitalized cost structures, or large-scale infrastructure deployment (preferred).
• Experience mentoring junior staff or leading cross-functional accounting initiatives (preferred).