Senior Accountant

As a Senior Accountant with Scout Clean Energy, you will play an integral role in building a tightly knit and highly productive team. You will engage directly in every facet of a wind developer and operator’s accounting, ranging from day-to-day transactions, to month-end financials closing for a multi-entity company. You will be responsible for accurately completing a variety of accounting tasks on firm timelines, assuring the company’s ability to continue to support growth and meet our commitments to our staff, investors, communities, and business partners.

Throughout the day, you will interface with the Accounting team members as well as other departments to complete the required tasks at hand. The Senior Accountant reports directly to Scout’s Project Accounting Manager.

The ideal candidate will seek to master the tasks initially assigned to them while maintaining a growth mindset, stepping in to support others on the team with new responsibilities as they emerge. To start, the Senior Accountant will have the following responsibilities:

Prepare multiple entities accounting financial statements. (Multi-entity accounting and consolidation experience preferred.)

Perform intercompany accounting

Perform as required the following during month-end closing process:

AP and AR reconciliations

Bank reconciliations

Revenue accruals

Closing adjusting, accrual, and depreciation entries

Job cost reconciliations

Intercompany accounting reconciliations

Equity rollforward reconciliations

Preparation and reconciliation of supporting schedules

Own your assigned entities’ financials, including posting AR and AP invoices

Provide audit support (Prior experience is required.)

Prepare and analyze financial statements

Support the review and documentation of existing processes

Willingness to actively participate in self-training and training others as necessary

Review and assist in monthly sales and use tax filings for multiple states

Assist with corporate tax filings process (Prior experience is a plus.)

Ad hoc assignments and special projects as required.

The successful candidate’s passion for renewable and clean energy will create a real connection to our work and to our broader team. Our new Senior Accountant will understand the service-oriented nature of this position and will bring the maturity needed to interact with many personality types and competing priorities. We seek someone with a desire to continuously improve and to support the development of processes that drive our team’s efficiency.