Job Description
The Senior Staff Accountant supports monthly accounting, financial analysis, inventory management, and accounts payable activities within a renewable energy company, ensuring accurate financial transactions and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Support monthly accounting activities, including preparing journal entries and performing balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assist with plant financial forecasting, budgeting, and analysis to improve accuracy and operational decision-making.
- Manage inventory processes, including weekly and monthly counts, and ensure accurate accounting of finished goods and raw materials.
- Monitor and record plant load-out activities, ensuring all shipments are properly documented and discrepancies are resolved.
- Reconcile and process accounts payable transactions, including invoice matching, coding, and resolving discrepancies.
- Ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures in all accounting and procurement activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, Finance, or related quantitative field
- 4-7 years of relevant accounting experience
- Experience processing a high volume of invoices and/or purchase orders
- Demonstrated ability to plan and organize work activities, manage time efficiently and follow policies and procedures
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and accounting software such as Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, or similar ERP system
- Ability to maintain confidentiality concerning financial data
- Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff
- Support in preparing journal entries and supporting documentation during the corporate monthly financial close
- Assist the Plant Controller with performing balance sheet reconciliations during the corporate monthly financial close
- Assist the Plant Controller with completing bi-weekly forecasts and the annual budget
- Support analyses to improve forecast accuracy and operational decision making
- Take weekly and monthly inventories, including raw material, spare parts, and consumable inventories
- Ensure the accurate accounting of finished goods inventory shipped from the operating plant location to the port location
- Monitor the plant’s load out function to ensure all loads leaving are recorded in the software system daily
- Communicate effectively with the port’s Office Manager to ensure all loads leaving the plant were subsequently received by the port
- Timely resolution of any daily reconciling items or potential inventory discrepancies
- Assist corporate Accounts Payable clerk with reconciling invoices to purchase orders, purchase requisitions, and receiving reports for goods and services (three-way matching)
- Ensure that appropriate sales tax is either included on the vendor invoice or tracked on a daily log to assist with monthly accrual and payment
- Assist with obtaining appropriate approval for payment of invoices received without a purchase requisition or purchase order number
- Review for the accurate coding and timely processing of invoices
- Investigate and resolve all discrepancies associated with invoice processing
- Review the coding of purchase orders and confirm the appropriate accounting treatment of invoices including prepaid expenses and fixed assets
- Ensure transactions comply with financial policies and procedures
- Willing and able to work in an industrial environment and adhere to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment as needed
Benefits & Perks
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