Senior Associate Accountant
About The Position
NewEdge Power is a pure-play clean energy development platform focused on utility-scale and distributed power solutions across the United States. The company is a high-growth, entrepreneurial, geographically dispersed organization committed to inclusion, teamwork, and delivering high impact for the business and communities it serves. NewEdge seeks a detail-oriented, highly organized accounting professional with strong technical skills and emotional intelligence to support accounting across its corporate parent, holding companies, and more than 30 project company entities. The Senior Associate Accountant is responsible for accurate, timely accounting and process improvement in a fast-paced, multi-entity development environment. This is a remote-first role, with the New York City area preferred, and requires travel up to 10% for team summits. The role reports to the VP Accounting and FP&A and is classified as exempt. Duties may evolve as the organization grows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field.
- At least 4 years of accounting experience, including public accounting and/or accounting for energy, real estate, or infrastructure companies.
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, including ASC 360, ASC 842, and ASC 810 (consolidation).
- Experience with multi-entity close, intercompany accounting, and consolidations.
- Experience with cloud-based accounting systems such as QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct, or NetSuite, and advanced Excel.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to meet close and reporting deadlines.
- Proficiency with accounts payable systems such as Bill.com, Ramp, or Tipalti, including approval workflow setup and configuration, vendor onboarding, coding to entities and projects, and general ledger integration.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time for team summits.
- Highly analytical mindset and curiosity to figure new things out.
- Team player willing to engage across the organization.
- High degree of emotional intelligence and respect for others.
- Self-starter with a strong passion for the clean energy industry.
Nice To Haves
- CPA or progress toward CPA licensure.
- Public accounting experience at a Big 4 or regional firm.
- Renewable energy accounting experience, including familiarity with ITC and tax credit transfer accounting.
- Prior experience in an entrepreneurial environment and/or a small-to-medium-size company, including accounting system implementation or automation.
Responsibilities
- Own key components of monthly and quarterly closes for corporate and project company entities, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, intercompany activity, and fixed asset and construction-in-progress schedules.
- Track capitalized development costs by project and apply capitalization policy.
- Account for interconnection deposits and security, and support accounting for project write-offs and project sales.
- Maintain books across holding companies and project companies, including joint venture and partnership accounting, capital contributions and distributions, intercompany allocations, and management fee billings.
- Prepare schedules for the annual financial statement audit and support outside tax advisors with partnership returns, K-1s, 1099s, and state and local filings.
- Prepare financial statements, budget-to-actual analysis, and investor reporting support.
- Drive improvements to controls, accounts payable workflow, and accounting systems.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Annual performance-based bonus.
- Remote-first environment.
- In-person team summits.
- 401(k) plan.
- Company equity program.
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
