Senior Accountant, Consolidations Accounting
Clearway EnergyPrinceton, New Jersey
Full Time
Posted March 11, 2026
$98k - $111k
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Job Description
The Senior Accountant, Consolidations Accounting, is responsible for supporting month-end close, financial consolidations, intercompany transactions, system management, and compliance activities within a corporate energy company, requiring strong accounting skills and system expertise.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with the month-end close and consolidation processes, including reconciliations and intercompany eliminations
- Prepare journal entries and perform account reconciliations for corporate accounts
- Manage financial system metadata processes and coordinate with IT and legal teams for new entity setups
- Analyze financial data submissions and ensure accuracy of system-generated balances in SAP and OneStream
- Support the preparation of consolidated financial statements, rollforwards, and cash flow entries
- Coordinate quarterly post-close journal entries and facilitate audit deliverables
- Ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls and assist with external audit support
- Assist with special projects, system upgrades, and process improvements
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Accounting.
- Minimum of 4 years of professional work experience in accounting and or financial reporting.
- Ability to work productively and independently in a team environment.
- Working knowledge and a general understanding of U.S. GAAP.
- Ability to collect and analyze information, problem-solve, and make suggestions aimed at refining and improving systems and processes.
- Ability to create and manipulate spreadsheets with large data sets.
- Strong working knowledge of accounting reporting software, preferably SAP SAP R 3 a plus, Hyperion Financial Management, and or OneStream, as well as advanced Excel skills.
- Experience with performing accounting functions necessary to achieve an accurate and timely general ledger month-end close.
- Experience assisting with the month-end consolidation functions, including reconciliation of investment and equity balances, intercompany eliminations, and clearing accounts.
- Experience preparing SAP journal entries to equity settle CWEN Corporate’s intercompany payables owed to other Clearway business units.
- Experience analyzing CWEN Corporate’s intercompany receivables on at least a quarterly basis and facilitating reimbursement to improve liquidity.
- Experience coordinating intercompany equity settlements with Legal, Treasury, and Tax groups, and communicating with regional accountants to minimize rejected settlement requests.
- Experience managing financial system metadata processes, particularly with respect to new legal entity formations.
- Experience hosting monthly metadata management meetings with Accounting and IT organizations to set expectations and ensure timely creation of metadata in SAP, OneStream, and other subledgers.
- Experience analyzing monthly financial data submissions from SAP in OneStream, including understanding of eliminations, equity pickup, and data management jobs.
- Experience assisting with journal entry preparation and account reconciliations for corporate accounts such as debt, insurance, legal, accrued liabilities, and cash clearing accounts.
- Experience overseeing completion of investment in subsidiaries and equity account reconciliations in OneStream.
- Experience assisting with the preparation of monthly, consolidated rollforwards of various balance sheet accounts, including equity, noncontrolling interest, and other assets and liabilities.
- Experience assisting with the preparation of cash flow journal entries in OneStream to support CWEN Inc., CWEN LLC, Renew LLC, and CEG’s financial reporting requirements.
- Experience assisting with the analysis and preparation of quarterly controller package schedules for senior management.
- Experience coordinating quarterly post-close topside journal entries, recording and consolidating entries in OneStream, and facilitating delivery of entries to audit as needed.
- Experience ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls, process flow, supporting documentation, risk assessments, and monthly quarterly certifications.
- Experience assisting with external audits, including client deliverables and follow-up requests for additional support or corrective actions.
- Experience with testing OneStream upgrades and enhancements.
- Ability to assist with ad hoc requests from other departments such as Corporate Accounting, Financial Reporting, and Accounting Research.
- Ability to assist with special projects as requested.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to problem-solve and improve systems and processes.
- Ability to develop and maintain cross-functional business partnerships with professionalism.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
- Ability and willingness to learn new skills and information.
Benefits & Perks
Salary Range: 98,000 - 111,000 USD annually
Hybrid work schedule with in-office collaboration on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision care
HSAs with company contributions
Health FSAs and dependent daycare FSAs
Commuter benefits
Relocation assistance
401(k) plan with employer match
Life and accident insurances
Fertility programs
Adoption assistance
Generous parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Benefits for employees in same-sex marriages, civil unions, and domestic partnerships
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