Coast Energy is hiring a
Senior Accountant

Summary

Join Coast as Senior Accountant to help navigate rapid growth and tackle complicated accounting for multiple solar project entities. Reporting to the Controller, you will handle day-to-day accounting functions, month-end, quarterly, and annual tasks, including reviewing transactions, creating journal entries, financial reporting, account reconciliations, process improvements, and other routine functions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of accounting experience, including at least 5 years as a senior accountant (or equivalent role)
• 3+ years of solar development and/or related financing or construction industry experience; strong preference for experience accounting for project development and construction within the commercial and industrial sector
• Strong NetSuite system experience (and recent)
• Strong operational accounting experience including management of policies and procedures related to multiple special purpose entities cash management, multiple entity management accounting policies, procedures and controls
• Strong technical accounting experience including US GAAP compliance, tax oversight and audit
• Detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy
• CPA preferred

Responsibilities

• Perform daily transactional accounting activities including cash management, purchase requisitions and account reconciliations
• Review and approve A/P transactions
• Analyze, manage and record journal entries for invoices, disbursements and other transactions
• Create and record solar project cost allocations
• Provide support to internal employees and management as needed, and perform tasks related to special projects
• Prepare monthly internal financial reports, bank and GL reconciliations and consolidated financial statements
• Execute month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities, including variance reports and trend analysis
• Assist with preparing financial statements and reports, such as profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements
• Prepare for and help execute a successful annual audit of corporate and project-entity financial statements
• Assist in the implementation and rollout of our new accounting system (NetSuite)
• Identify potential improvements to processes