Analyst III, Regulatory Accounting

Liberty•Downey, CA

2d•$80,000 - $115,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a growing Team and various new opportunities on the Regulatory Accounting Team available. Senior-level individual contributor responsible for leading complex regulatory accounting, FERC/NARUC reporting, rate-case support, commission data requests, and regulatory compliance activities. Serves as a subject matter expert for regulatory financial data, accounting requirements, rate-case support, and reporting processes while ensuring filings and support are accurate, complete, traceable, and audit-ready.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field.
Five to eight years of progressive accounting, regulatory accounting, utility accounting, financial reporting, audit, or related experience.
Strong working knowledge of US GAAP, utility accounting, regulatory accounting, regulatory assets and liabilities, and financial reporting.
Demonstrated experience supporting filings, rate cases, regulatory audits, commission data requests, or FERC/NARUC reporting.
Advanced Excel and analytical skills with ability to manipulate and interpret large data sets.
Experience with SAP, Hyperion/HFM, Workiva, Power BI, PowerPlan, BlackLine, or comparable platforms.
Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and deadline management skills.

Responsibilities

Lead preparation and review of financial schedules and support for FERC Form 1, FERC Form 3-Q, rate cases, regulatory filings, audits, management audits, and commission data requests.
Serve as primary financial lead for assigned rate cases, regulatory proceedings, audits, and significant data requests.
Review and validate information prepared by Level I and Level II analysts for consistency, completeness, and compliance with requirements.
Develop complex regulatory responses, exhibits, workpapers, testimony support, and financial analyses.
Provide subject matter expertise on FERC USOA, regulatory accounting, regulatory assets and liabilities, cost allocations, rate recovery mechanisms, and utility accounting.
Lead GAAP-to-regulatory reconciliations, account mapping validations, and regulatory reporting analyses.
Assess accounting impacts from new regulatory orders, emerging requirements, organizational changes, and system implementations.
Partner directly with Regulatory Affairs, Legal, auditors, consultants, expert witnesses, business stakeholders, and finance leadership.
Lead process standardization, controls, documentation standards, operating procedures, automation, and continuous improvement.
Provide coaching and technical support to Level I and Level II analysts.