Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, and oversight to the General Accounting, Regulatory Accounting, and M&S Accounting teams, ensuring accurate and timely execution of all accounting activities.
- Monitor and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and transactional activity to ensure accuracy and compliance with GAAP, IFRS and applicable regulatory accounting standards.
- Ensure timely and accurate completion of regulatory accounting entries, regulatory assets and liabilities roll-forward, and deferred cost tracking in accordance with ASC 980 and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Review M&S cost allocations and inter-company billings to ensure proper recording and compliance with cost allocation methodologies.
- Review and approve balance sheet account reconciliations, ensuring all reconciling items are properly documented and resolved within established timelines.
- Support Rates and Regulatory Affairs (RRA) during rate case proceedings, providing financial data, testimony support, data requests and accounting analysis as required.
- Oversee the preparation and submission of annual regulatory reports and support RRA for any other required regulatory filings.
- Partner with FP&A, Tax and business unit leaders to provide accounting insights and historical data analysis to support budgeting and forecasting, business decision making, and process optimization.
- Serve as a point of contact for external auditors during the annual audit, managing the preparation of audit schedules, responding to auditor inquiries, and ensuring timely resolution of audit findings.
- Conduct periodic performance reviews for direct reports, establish individual development plans, and identify training and growth opportunities to build team capabilities.
- Identify, champion, and lead process improvement initiatives across the general accounting, regulatory accounting, and M&S accounting functions to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
- Partner with Internal Control and Compliance to strengthen the internal control environment and proactively address control gaps or deficiencies.
Requirements
- deep technical accounting expertise in both US GAAP and IFRS
- strong leadership capabilities
- forward-thinking mindset toward digital innovation and process transformation
